Fifteen Penn State Berks students enrolled in the college's Applied Psychology, Communication Arts and Sciences, and Global Studies courses got a lesson in fear when they traveled with Dr. Eric Lindsey, Professor of Psychology, and Dr. Cheryl L. Nicholas, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, to Philadelphia on October 24, 2014, to participate in the "Grim Philly Twilight Tour," a walking tour of the city.
Kaitlin Roig, a first grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary, will share her personal account of the Sandy Hook tragedy, on Wednesday, December 3, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. in Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
The Penn State Berks Communication Arts & Sciences (CAS) program will host Communication Day, featuring a symposium titled "What's Your Pathway?" on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Freyberger Gallery, located in the Perkins Center. This event is free and open to the campus community.
This is play is under embargo. We are under rights restriction by Dramatists Play Service, the licensing organization, due to a professional production of this play at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and can't be released publicly until Friday evening, November 7, 2014.
Alan Kipping-Ruane, a Penn State Berks student and Navy veteran, has been named to the "Top 40 Under 40 Military Class of 2014" by CivilianJobs.com's worldwide military base newspaper, Military Transition News (MTN), and the winners are being released this week in honor of Veterans Day.
Penn State Berks will hold a Degree Fair for currently enrolled students on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014, from 1-2:30 p.m. in Tully's. Students attending the fair will receive a coupon for a free lunch on the day they attend and they will be able to enter their names in a drawing for a grand prize.
Two Penn State Berks Global Studies majors had the experience of a lifetime when they completed an internship at Social Change and Development (SCAD), a nonprofit non-governmental organization dedicated to empowering the marginalized communities in Tamil Nadu, India during the spring semester of 2014.
The Penn State Berks Veterans Advisory Council, in collaboration with the Penn State Berks Admissions Office, is hosting an information session for student veterans and their dependents to learn more about the benefits of the GI College Bill ® and Penn State Berks on Wednesday, November 12, 2014, beginning at 5 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Multipurpose Room. This event is free and open to current, prospective, and new active-duty, reserve, and military veteran students and their dependents.
Routing and scheduling the delivery of goods in an environmentally friendly manner is the topic of the next Engineering, Business, and Computing (EBC) Division Speaker Series Presentation on Monday, November 3, 2014, at 1 p.m. in room 244 of the Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building. Dr. Yiyong Xiao and Dr. Abdullah Konak will present: "Minimizing C02 Emissions for the Time-Dependent, Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problem Using Dynamic Programming and Genetic Algorithms." This presentation is free and open to the public.
Penn State Berks students will be "lending their paws for a good cause" as they volunteer at a variety of nonprofit organizations during the academic year. The following is a list of community service initiatives in November.