Each year, Penn State honors several members of its faculty and staff for the highest levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service. The 2015 Faculty/Staff Award recipients — 33 outstanding University employees and one program — reach across campuses, colleges and administrative units and exemplify best practices and achievements among Penn Staters reflecting the University's mission of teaching, research and service.
No longer the stuff of science fiction movies, electric vehicles are a reality, and they're coming to Penn State Berks in the form of a donation of a Nissan Leaf from Eisenhauer Nissan. Pete Eisenhauer, owner of Eisenhauer Nissan, will hand the keys over to Penn State Berks Chancellor R. Keith Hillkirk on Thursday, April 2, 2015, at 2:30 p.m. in front of the lion shrine, just outside the Thun Library.
In an effort to reach out to Penn State campuses and expand their membership, the Forum on Black Affairs (FOBA) held its first eastern regional meeting at Penn State Berks on Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Nine Penn State campuses were represented at the meeting, which dealt with issues of diversity related to Penn State faculty and staff.
Ann Clements, associate professor of music education in the School of Music, wins the first annual Open Innovation Challenge, which is a high-profile speaking opportunity to present new innovative ideas about anything that enhances teaching and learning in higher education. Clements, whose idea involved creating a 3D Virtual Teaching Lab, was one of six finalists chosen from a pool of nearly 40 innovative ideas submitted to the Challenge.
Penn State Berks students will be "lending their paws for a good cause" as they volunteer at a variety of nonprofit organizations during the academic year. The following is a list of community service initiatives in April.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015, beginning at 5 p.m.-Students can sign up in Campus Life to cook and serve dinner at Opportunity House. The van will leave campus at 5 p.m.
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.
An instructional technology pilot program at Penn State Berks allows online students to view their peers and instructor as though they were interacting face-to-face.
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.
