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College partners with community for trail cleanup

College partners with community for trail cleanup

Berks students, community members, and Olivet Boys & Girls children will gather in Northwest Reading to clean up Baer Park and a section of the Schuylkill River Trail, from the River Road trail head to the Buttonwood Street Bridge, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17.
Berks engineering team is finalist in Inc.U competitionMasen Suhadolnik has been lifting weights since high school. Between sets, he would sometimes notice other people in the gym not lifting properly, and he wanted to help.

Berks engineering team is finalist in Inc.U competition

It wasn’t until Masen Suhadolnik became a senior in the electro-mechanical engineering technology degree program at Penn State Berks that he discovered a way to combine his love of weight lifting, his knowledge of engineering, and his desire to help others.
Penn State Berks' Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building

Study: Berks contributes $97.5 million to PA economy

Berks contributed $97.5 million to the Pennsylvania economy in FY 2017, and supported, 1,356 Pennsylvania jobs. A new study released Feb. 26 by Penn State, focused on measuring the University’s impact in communities across the Commonwealth.
Spotted Lantern Fly

Berks center supports spotted lanternfly research

It all began when Penn State Berks Professor Michael Fidanza was approached in 2018 by researchers from the College of Agriculture Sciences who needed a site to conduct a preliminary investigation on the biology and life cycle of the spotted lanternfly.