Donna Chambers, interim director of the Office of Community Engagement and teaching professor of Spanish, leads a variety of events on and off campus. She is pictured hosting her weekly "Charlas con Chocolates" event where students, faculty and staff are invited to enjoy cultural conversations and word games in Spanish while sampling chocolates of the Americas.
Aidee Santos Acosta, Class of 2023, participated in an international medical internship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, through Penn State Global’s Perreault Fellows Program.
Nicole Tavarez (pictured holding a plant during a sustainability event) is an assistant director of admissions. Tavarez is bilingual so she is well equipped to guide Spanish-speaking students and families through the admissions process and continue to serve as a mentor to students after they enroll.
Cory Varona-Corniel and Nicol Varona Cancelmo, members of the Latino Advisory Council, Penn State Berks alumni, and founders of OCOA, a high-end, curly hair care line, were the keynote speakers at Penn State Berks fall 2023 commencement ceremony.
Spanish speaking faculty and staff visited Centro Hispano for family night. Pictured are Belén Rodríguez Mourelo, professor of Spanish and division head of humanities, arts and social sciences (standing, left), and Lilibell Sanchez, assistant director of student leadership (standing, right).
Penn State Berks students Vinh Lu, left, and J'Kaia Reynolds, right, had an opportunity to explore careers in health care through internships with the Berks County Medical Society as Pat Sharma President’s Scholars.
Sadan Kulturel-Konak is a professor of management information systems and director of the Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CEED) Center at Penn State Berks.
Celebrities hold sway in politics, researchers at Penn State said, and often weigh in on matters that can become political. Here, the cast of "Ted Lasso" joined Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, third from left, for a press briefing on March 20, 2023, at the White House. The cast visited the White House to discuss the importance of mental health.
The 2024-25 Teaching and Learning Technologies Faculty Advisory Committee members are, from top left, Alison Borkowska, Chris Gamrat, Dawn Pfeifer Reitz, Dylan Paré; Emily Rimland, Kevin Haworth, John Haubrick, Kimberley Hemmings-Jarrett; Mary Ann Smith, Melanie Miller Foster, Stuart Selber and Tiffany Petricini. Not pictured is Seth Powless.
Brett Spencer, reference and instruction librarian for the Thun Library at Penn State Berks, received the 2024 Innovation and Advocacy in Library History Award presented by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association.
