The academic accomplishments of 31 Penn State Berks students were celebrated on Feb. 26, when they were inducted as the first cohort of the college’s Lambda Beta Chapter of the Alpha Alpha Alpha, a national honor society for first-generation college students.
A team of Penn State Berks students recieved an award in the Prototype Phase of the Nittany AI Challenge, an annual competition sponsored by the Nittany AI Alliance that provides students from all campuses the opportunity to use AI and machine learning to address pressing global issues while gaining hands on experience. The students' project is B.E.A.N., which stands for "Bio Environmentally-friendly Aquatic Navigator."
The winning picture in the 2025 Penn State Today winter photo contest was submitted by Dom Feola, marketing specialist in Penn State Outreach. The picture shows Jane, the resident sandhill crane at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center.
Jeff Gernsheimer will share the incredible story of his mother’s journey from Germany to England and then to the U.S. to escape the Holocaust, on Monday, March 3, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Multipurpose Room, Penn State Berks. This presentation is free and open to the public.
The latest episode of Invent Penn State’s Dare to Disrupt podcast features sisters and Penn State Berks alumni Cory Varona-Corniel and Nicol Varona Cancelmo, co-founders of OCOA. Their company specializes in clean, natural haircare products designed for curly hair.
Penn State Berks is showing support for the members of Berks Benefitting THON who are representing the college at THON, the University’s dance marathon which benefits families battling pediatric cancer. There will be a dancer send-off from noon to 2 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20, in Perkins Student Center Lion’s Den. The campus community will gather to wish the dancers and co-overall chairs well, and the send-off will be open to the public. Philly Pretzel Factory’s Muhlenberg site will provide free soft pretzels for attendees.
Penn State Berks is celebrating its history while preparing students for the future through National Engineers Week events and activities, to be held Feb. 17 to 21. While the college’s roots in engineering date back to 1927, Penn State has offered engineering degrees for more than 125 years.
Faculty librarians conduct scholarly research across disciplines and with far-reaching impacts. Penn State University Libraries faculty librarians’ research is not only impactful, it is highly productive, as evidenced by a study published in the July 2023 issue of College & Research Libraries, the official, peer-reviewed scholarly research journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
