Penn State University Libraries presented its sixth annual "Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy" honors at the end of the spring 2023 semester to 136 students at 20 undergraduate Penn State campuses.
Jayné Park-Martinez began volunteering with Penn State Extension’s Master Watershed Steward Program in 2018 and has been making an impact on the surrounding community ever since.
Penn State Berks recently established the Office of Community Engagement, with the mission to build relevant and meaningful relationships within the community and to connect to the community through service opportunities.
First-year engineering students at Penn State Berks put their problem-solving skills to the test when they were tasked with designing and constructing escape room puzzles for their engineering design introductory course.
Adam Plucinski, assistant teaching professor of engineering at Penn State Altoona, and Lolita Paff, associate professor of business economics at Penn State Berks, are the 2022-23 recipients of the Jack P. Royer Active and Collaborative Learning Award from the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses. The award recognizes Commonwealth Campus faculty and staff who demonstrate innovative teaching practices to enhance student learning and who facilitate student engagement in learning to advance conceptual and applied understanding and competencies.
Students who will be high school seniors in the fall and their families are invited to attend the Penn State Berks Spend a Summer Morning information program from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 5.
Rising high school seniors and their families are invited to attend the Penn State Berks Spend a Summer Evening information session from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 12, or the Summer Evening Tours from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25.
Students attending Penn State Berks summer camps will learn about various career fields, the world around them and themselves. The camps, which last three to four days in June and July, are for students entering fifth through eighth grades and ninth through twelfth grades in fall 2023. All of the camps run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Penn State Berks has named nearly 700 students to the spring 2023 dean’s list. To earn a dean’s list designation, students must end the semester with a 3.5 grade-point average or higher.
How do you instill an appreciation of biodiversity and a desire to preserve ecosystems in the community? A team of Penn State Berks and Lehigh Valley professors tackled this very question through a multidisciplinary research project that involved participants in a meaningful community activity, linking science and the arts.
