As part of the renovation and expansion to the Penn State Berks community center, the Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning has recommended for full board consideration the renaming of the facility from the “Beaver Community Center” to the “Beaver Athletics and Wellness Center.”
David Witwer, 2020-21 Penn State Laureate will give a virtual presentation titled "Searching for Jimmy Hoffa" for the Penn State Berks community on Friday, Oct. 2.
The Penn State Berks Diversity Committee, in collaboration with the Rainbow Alliance student organization, is holding a student art competition to celebrate LGBT History Month in October.
Penn State Berks is working to enhance the cultural competency of its campus community. A college-wide program to increase cultural competency among faculty, staff and students included a recent study of student-teachers.
George Grant Jr., professor and dean of the College of Community and Public Service at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, has been named chancellor of Penn State Berks, following a national search. Grant will begin his appointment on Jan. 4, 2021.
Despite being out of college for over a year now, former baseball standout Toby Welk is still receiving recognition for his brilliant career at Penn State Berks.
The Penn State community is invited to virtually attend the Nittany AI Challenge Celebration, where nine student teams will present their minimum viable product for a chance to share in the remaining pool of $25,000 in funding. Saqib Shaikh, software engineering manager and project lead for the Seeing AI project at Microsoft, will be the keynote speaker. The event will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 25 via Zoom.
In the second of a three-part series of roundtable discussions titled “Toward Racial Equity at Penn State: Social Difference, Social Equity and Social Change,” faculty members, staff, University leaders and students of color shared their experiences within a predominately white university setting and their visions for the future of diversity, equity and inclusion at Penn State.