The Penn State Berks International Klub will host its first-ever Garba Night from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, in the Perkins Student Center Multipurpose Room. The event is free for Penn State Berks faculty, staff and students. Tickets are also available for non-Penn State students.
A new book edited by two Penn State librarians, Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Alexandria Chisholm, collects practical ways for academic librarians to incorporate privacy literacy into their instruction and practice.
The annual Penn State Berks pop-up, fine-dining restaurant event is currently taking reservations for its annual dinner, set for 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3, in the first-floor lobby of the Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building on the Berks campus.
Prospective students and their families are invited to a special day of campus tours at Penn State Berks on Saturday, Nov. 4, starting at 10 a.m. at the Perkins Student Center, located just off Broadcasting Road in Wyomissing. Tours are approximately one-hour long. Attendees must register in advance.
Senior citizens are often frequent targets of online scams and phishing attacks. A group of Penn State Berks students, under the moniker “Cyber Lions,” aim to raise awareness of cybercrimes and scams targeting seniors and to help protect them from scammers and criminals.
Azar Panah, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Berks, coordinated an educational art exhibition inspired by fluid dynamics at the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences. The Traveling Gallery of Fluid Motion presents “Chaosmosis: Assigning Rhythm to the Turbulent,” which opened on Oct. 2 and will remain on view through Feb. 23, 2024, at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C.
Penn State Berks will host acclaimed science writer Annie Murphy Paul, author of “The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain," at 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium as part of the college’s Common Reading Week.
In an effort to gather information on the needs of the local community, as well as gauge the community’s knowledge and perceptions about the college, the Penn State Berks Advisory Board and the Strategic Planning Committee have joined forces to create a short survey, which is available in both English and Spanish.
Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.
The Penn State Berks global studies degree program will host a forum with a presentation titled “How Hate Crime Laws Perpetuate Anti-Muslim Racism” on Oct. 25. Evelyn Alsultany, professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the featured speaker for the forum, which is free and open to the public.
