A new class of 276 Penn State Berks students will receive their baccalaureate and associate degrees on Saturday, May 7, 2016, when Berks hosts the spring 2016 commencement ceremonies.
Penn State Berks is celebrating the most recent student publication, titled The Reading Police Oral History Project: Understanding Those Who Serve and Protect. Student authors are hosting a "book party" on April 22, 2016, at 1:00 in Janssen Conference Center where students and police officers will reunite to discuss this original publication.
Penn State Berks alumni who played for the college's Rugby Team will reunite for first annual Penn State Berks Alumni vs Student Rugby Match on Saturday, April 23, 2016, starting at 3 p.m. A series of games will be held, rain or shine, behind the Beaver Community Center on the new artificial turf athletic field.
Three Penn State Berks students received awards in the third annual Spanish poetry-writing contest sponsored by the Latin American Cultural Center of Lancaster (LACC). Students from Lancaster, Reading, and Harrisburg in grades 6-8, 9-12, and university undergraduates wrote original poems in Spanish honoring mothers. Penn State Berks captured the top three prizes in the university category.
This spring Penn State expects to award 13,604 diplomas to students University-wide. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State’s 24 locations.
The Penn State Berks Sustainability Team, led by Dr. Mahsa Kazempour, Associate Professor of Science Education, has a variety of activities and events in April for the college's first annual Sustainability Month celebration.
Penn State Berks students received recognition at the University Scholastic Awards Ceremony on April 7, 2016, in the Multipurpose Room of the Perkins Student Center. The awards presented included the President's Freshman Award, the President Sparks Award, and the Evan Pugh Scholars Award.
Two Penn State students won local Miss America crowns recently and advanced to compete for the title of Miss Pennsylvania this summer in Pittsburgh.
Sarah Fieger, Penn State Berks, was crowned Miss Southeastern PA and Kelsey Wettig, Penn State University Park, was crowned Miss Pennsbury during competitions in late March in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
During the week of March 5-13, ten Penn State Berks students and two staff advisers traveled to Belfast, Ireland to work with the nonprofit organization Amazade on initiatives related to youth, hunger, and homelessness-all major issues facing citizens of Northern Ireland.
This year, instead of choosing a project by destination, students selected a project by its mission.
Students involved in entrepreneurship at Berks will participate in the Penn State Student Entrepreneurship Summit on April 15, 2016, at University Park campus. The goal of the Summit is to connect entrepreneurial students from across the Penn State campuses and to share best practices and lessons learned in the realm of student entrepreneurship.
