For the first time, Penn State Berks and Penn State Health St. Joseph are partnering to provide Practical Nursing students with hands-on patient experience. Penn State Berks Practical Nursing students will be joining hospital staff to provide flu shots to hospital employees and their family members during the "Family & Friends" Flu Shot Clinic at the hospital's Bern Campus on October 13 and 15, 2015. The students will also participate in the Public Flu Shot campaign on October 17 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Penn State Berks students will turn Opportunity House, the Reading emergency shelter, into a five-star restaurant for its clients on the evening of Monday, October 19, 2015. Students will serve a four-course American soul food meal to Opportunity House clients, as well as an evening to remember.
Dr. Carol Reardon, a military scholar and the current Penn State Laureate scholar, will deliver a lecture titled "Why Study War?" at Penn State Berks on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, at 1 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
The Penn State Berks Kinesiology Department is hosting a walk to support Exercise Is Medicine Week, October 12-16, 2015.
On Monday, October 12, 2015, Chancellor R. Keith Hillkirk will lead a 20-minute walk through Penn State Berks to kick-off the campus' activities. The walk will be held in conjunction with the Exercise Is Medicine walk at University Park campus, also on Oct. 12, led by Ann C. Crouter, Dean of the Penn State College of Health and Human Development.
Dr. Jennifer Murphy, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Berks recently published a book in which she investigates various perspectives on drug addiction, titled Illness or Deviance? Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, and the Ambiguity of Addiction (Temple University Press, 2015). The book examined a drug court and affiliated drug treatment programs to see how addiction was constructed in each setting.
Jennifer Murphy, associate professor of criminal justice at Penn State Berks recently published a book in which she investigates various perspectives on drug addiction.
The Penn State Berks student group that works tirelessly to raise funds and awareness throughout the year for THON, "Berks benefitting THON," will receive the NAACP-Reading Branch's Community Impact Youth Award at their Freedom Fund Gala on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading.
The Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery will celebrate the Day of the Dead, the Mexican holiday devoted to honoring deceased ancestors, with a special presentation on Monday, November 2, 2015, at 6 p.m. This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
