Penn State Berks has added a new certificate program in Spanish for Healthcare this fall. The program is offered in response to community needs. It will benefit students who want to enhance their Spanish speaking, reading, writing and translating skills in various health care and human services fields.
The Penn State Office for General Education has announced the selection of seven Penn State faculty who will serve as new advisers and program leaders and will help to build high-impact teaching and learning practices in general education across the institution. The seven new members will serve three-year terms as part of a team of 16 general education faculty scholars.
The Penn State Berks Data Lions team recently took first place in the Anthem AI ‘Substance Use Disorder and Whole Health of the Person’ Hackathon, a competition to identify risk factors related to substance use, and conditions indicative of underlying substance abuse.
Penn State Berks has had a history of collaboration with the University of Split, from Berks helping the Split to develop a service-learning program in 2018 to present day.
The Penn State Berks elementary and early childhood education degree program is hosting a free day-long seminar titled “Issues of Trauma: Empowering School Practitioners” to address the dynamic issues of trauma facing schools as students return to classrooms.
Leaders from Penn State and Northampton Community College signed a transfer and articulation agreement this spring. The agreement establishes a program-to-program enrollment articulation agreement in hospitality management.
For student G. Michael Shott Jr., hip-hop has always been a source of inspiration. When he learned about the Penn State Erickson Discovery Grants, he took a chance and submitted a proposal for a research project.
Berks LaunchBox recently received a $50K grant from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Education to purchase equipment for its makerspace and community operating workspace.
Penn State Berks student Matthew Finger recently had an opportunity to pitch his startup idea in front of an international community of like-minded entrepreneurs in STup! 2021.
Cara Exten, an assistant nursing professor and infectious disease epidemiologist, studies the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases in populations over time. She put her nearly 20 years of epidemiology experience to the test by helping the University create and execute a COVID-19 testing and contact tracing initiative.