Penn State Berks will welcome first-year students to its residential community as part of the campus' annual orientation program beginning on Friday, Aug. 20. Incoming students will move into the residence halls from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Students should consult the University’s details for required student on-arrival COVID-19 testing.
Recognized student organizations may return to holding in-person activities, including meetings, tabling, and other events for the fall semester. Students are expected to follow all current masking requirements on their campus during these activities.
Penn State has announced plans to transition its masking and physical distancing requirements on June 28 to more closely align with changes recently announced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Pennsylvania Department of Health that relax COVID-19 restrictions for fully vaccinated individuals.
Penn State has updated its public COVID-19 dashboard with the University's on-demand testing and random testing results from tests administered during the period of Nov. 20 to 22, as well as new University testing results from the prior week. As of Nov. 23 at University Park, there are 348 active student cases, up from 318 at the last update on Nov. 20, and 4,462 students have completed their isolation period and are no longer active cases.
Azar Eslam-Panah, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, recently tested the effectiveness of face masks in the college’s Fluid Discovery Lab, the only such lab in the Penn State system.
In celebration of students adhering to the safety measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, Penn State Berks is holding a “Mask Up or Pack Up” celebration.
With Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s announcement today (May 22) of additional counties moving to yellow phase over the next two weeks, students residing in those counties can now begin scheduling a move-out date from their on-campus residence halls. A number of Penn State campuses will also begin scheduling students for move out.
As Pennsylvania moved on April 1 to extend its "Stay at Home" order to all counties, Penn State campuses across the commonwealth already had practices in place that align with the governor’s current and previous orders.
