The Penn State Berks Department of Theatre will present All in the Timing, a collection of one-act plays by David Ives, on April 7-10, 2015, at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, April 11, at 2 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for general admission, and $5 for Penn State faculty, staff, and students with ID.
As part of Penn State’s ongoing efforts to raise awareness about sexual violence, the University is marking Sexual Assault Awareness month in April, with events slated to take place at campuses across the Commonwealth. Those events include lectures, film screenings, self-defense training, “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” events and other educational programs.
The Miller-Keystone Bloodmobile will make a stop at Penn State Berks on Tuesday, March 31, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Multipurpose Room.
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, March 30, 2015. With the
help of a chef from the Abraham Lincoln Hotel in Reading, students will serve
Opportunity House clients a four-course Irish-themed meal in honor of St.
Partick's Day and an evening to remember.
The Penn State Berks Kinesiology degree program will celebrate "Exercise Is Medicine" Week, based on the national "Exercise Is Medicine" campaign promoted by the American College of Sports Medicine, from March 23-27, 2015.
On Tuesday, March 24, Berks Kinesiology students will participate in a shoe assessment provided by A Running Start shoe store in West Reading. The assessment will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the Beaver Community Center.
Dr. Michele Ramsey, Associate Professor of Communications Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies at Penn State Berks, will receive the 2015 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award at the University-wide Commission for Women luncheon on Thursday, April 2, 2015, from noon-1:30 p.m. at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
In a letter nominating her for the award, it states: "Michele's mentoring reach extends from her faculty and staff colleagues to students and to girls in the community."
Two Penn State Berks faculty members were selected to present at the upcoming Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology on Saturday, March 21, 2015. Dr. Rungun Nathan, Associate Professor of Engineering and Program Coordinator for Mechanical Engineering will present "E-Collaborative Board: An Electronic Board for Group Involvement" and Marietta Scanlon, Lecturer in Engineering, will give a presentation titled "Your Life is Your Lab."
The Penn State Berks Christian Student Fellowship (CSF), a student group, spent their spring break in Crisfield, Maryland, helping to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The group of 17 students departed on Saturday, March 7, 2015, and returned on Saturday, March 14.
The Penn State Berks Freyberger Gallery will present the group exhibition Paper Trails from March 26-April 23, 2015. There will be an opening reception on Thursday, March 26, at 6 p.m. Mark Mahosky, one of the artists featured in the exhibition and Assistant Professor of Painting at Kutztown University, will provide an informal talk at the reception. This event is free and open to the public, and light refreshments will be served.
