A team from Penn State Berks has been selected as one of 10 finalists in the Great Social Enterprise Pitch, an idea incubator and business plan competition for concepts that use a business model and revenues to have a positive social or environmental impact. The student-faculty team, Trimatis, recycles plastic waste for use in 3-D printing. Working with the Langan LaunchBox, they were able to develop their business plans
Penn State Berks junior Jovan Tate has launched a pilot program for his fledgling company, Campus Cars Inc., created to bring car sharing to fellow students at Penn State Berks who do not have access to their own vehicles. He gained valuable assistance and advice through the Langan LaunchBox, an incubation hub funded by the Invent Penn State initiative.
The Penn State Berks softball team had to do things the hard way as it worked back from the loser's bracket with three wins on May 5 to claim its fifth North Eastern Athletic Conference championship in six years. Berks topped Wilson College, 8-0, in five innings to start off the day. The team then had to beat Keuka College twice, which it would go on to do by scores of 12-3 (five innings) and then 5-0 in the winner-take-all seventh game of the tournament.
Jess Rozick was named the North Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year and the Penn State Berks softball team had six members earn all-conference honors, as voted on by the league's coaches.
Penn State Berks held a celebration April 25 to highlight the early success of the campus' efforts in "A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence," a University-wide campaign to raise $1.6 billion by 2021.
Six members of the Penn State Berks graduating class received their Schreyer Honors Medals at the Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony held on Sunday, April 22.
More than 60 courses will be offered in the two summer sessions, with the first six-week session running from May 14 to June 21, and the second seven-week session running from June 25 to Aug. 2.
Penn State Berks will host its 20th annual Careers with Math Options Conference on May 9 for female middle school students from Berks County and surrounding school districts.
The Penn State Berks men's golf team won its first ever North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) and Andrew Cornish became the first Golfer of the Year in program history after finishing as the individual champion on Sunday afternoon.
The Berks' women's tennis team won the title for the third time in four years and the ninth time in program history. The Nittany Lions have won their seventh consecutive contest and improve to 9-5 on the season.
