Penn State Berks will host a banquet in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. The event will be held in the Perkins Student Center Multipurpose Room; doors open at 6 p.m., with a soul food dinner at 6:30.
This spring, as part of the Global Studies degree program's "Global Oscars Come to Berks," Penn State Berks will present four films nominated for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards: The Hunt on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015; The Missing Picture on Thursday, Feb. 26; The Great Beauty on Thursday, March 26; and Omar, on Thursday, April 23; all at 6 p.m. in room 121 of the Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building. All four films are free and open to the public.
Dr. Lauren Jade Martin, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Penn State Berks, recently published a book titled Reproductive Tourism in the United States: Creating Family in the Mother Country (Routledge 2015). The book examines the United States as a destination for international consumers of assisted fertility services, including egg donation, surrogacy, and sex selection.
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Linda Stein, a feminist, activist, and artist who addresses issues concerning strength, power, and justice in contemporary culture, will present a gallery exhibition and lecture at Penn State Berks in January.
When Marko Yacoub graduates with a B.S. in Biology on
Friday, December 19, 2014, it will be the realization of his dream and the
culmination of a long journey for him and his family.
Michael McCloskey won't have to worry about finding a position in his field after graduation on Friday, December 19, 2014. He already has a job lined up as an associate database analyst at Dow Corning in Bay City, Michigan, where he completed a summer internship. But McCloskey, Penn State Berks' student marshal (the graduating student with the highest grade-point average) took a somewhat winding road to reach this milestone.
Briana Lackman is on the road to success. She already has a job lined up after she graduates on Friday, December 19, 2014, as a medical scribe at Berkshire Allergy and Asthma, and several applications submitted to graduate school to study to become a physician assistant.
Lackman will earn a B.S. in Biology. She explains that she chose Biology because it's the best path to gain entry to a physician assistant program: many of the requirements for entry are covered by the Biology degree at Penn State Berks.
