Academics

Penn State has decided to delay the start of in-person classes and transition to a fully remote learning environment for the beginning of the spring 2021 semester at all campus locations. This decision was made following extensive analysis and scenario planning given worsening virus conditions nationally and across the state indicating predictions of rising hospitalization rates in the coming weeks.

Penn State Berks will have two student marshals for its fall commencement ceremony: Alpha Ahamadou Tall and Sarah Elizabeth Brubacher.

Ifeoluwa “Ife” Ogunyinka had been accepted to the University of Johannesburg in South Africa when her family decided to emigrate to the United States.

Mark Viglione, a 2015 graduate and founder of Enigma Networkz, has finalized a software licensing agreement with the University to make his company’s security information and event management platform, Enigma Glass, available to students at all Penn State campuses.

Commencement is a milestone in every graduate’s life, and the faculty and staff at Penn State Berks want to celebrate this achievement with its graduates.

The final Penn State Berks LionSide Chat for 2020 will feature an interview with Chancellor R. Keith Hillkirk, who is retiring at the end of the year after 15 years with Penn State.

Penn State Berks hospitality management students recently created an innovative restaurant concept for the restaurant at Berkshire Country Club as part of the Advanced Food Production and Service Management course.

Ruth Daly, professor of physics at Penn State Berks, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

In order to bring new and existing groups together in a pandemic world and fulfill the need of professionals to connect with one another, the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence recently awarded 19 grants through a new program called The Garden Project: Cultivating Communities of Practice.

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.