Penn State Berks graduating students will have an opportunity to walk across the stage during the college’s spring 2022 commencement, which will be held promptly at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 7. Berks County Magisterial District Judge Tonya A. Butler will deliver the keynote address. The event will be held at Santander Arena, located at 700 Penn St. in downtown Reading, and there will be one ceremony for all graduates.
Seven members of the Penn State Berks graduating class received their Schreyer Honors Medals at the Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony held on April 10. Medals are awarded upon completion of the requirements of the Schreyer Honors College, including a capstone honors thesis.
Penn State Berks student Nathan Bonslaver won first-place during the 2022 LION Tank pitch competition for his startup CarToCamp, which manufactures custom sleeping platforms for vehicles to enhance the car-camping experience.
The Student Enterprise Award Contest is the Penn State Berks Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development (CEED) Center’s version of "Shark Tank." During the contest, students presented their ideas for a business startup, followed by a question-and-answer session with the committee.
From teacher-in-training in Cambodia and Thailand, to social worker, to earning a master’s degree in school advising, to kindergarten teacher in China, to author, to voice talent for an education app –– there’s (virtually) nothing that Charlie Suero is afraid to try.
Camryn Hicks, a senior business major at Penn State Berks from Harleysville, Pennsylvania, was a member of one of only 10 global teams to win the X-Culture Program competition, a large-scale international experiential learning project in which students work together to solve real-world business challenges.
Penn State Berks is celebrating its history while preparing students for the future through National Engineers Week events and activities, to be held Feb. 21 to 26. Penn State Berks’ roots in engineering date back to 1927, and Penn State has offered engineering degrees for more than 125 years.
Jannah Martin sees conlangs, and her own constructed language in particular, as a means of bringing cultures together and closing that gap of otherness. Martin, a senior communication arts and sciences major at Penn State Berks, is completing a Schreyer Honors College thesis by constructing a language intended to serve as a bridge language.
Growing up in West Philadelphia, Rodney Babb is no stranger to gun violence. He is dedicating his life to making a difference in his community in his role as a violence intervention program coordinator at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, located in West Philadelphia.
Budding entrepreneurs are invited to apply for the Penn State Berks Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Center’s Customer Discovery Lab, a six-week series of workshops that will provide commercialization training and mentorship, as well as the opportunity to apply for micro-grants, for up to 30 startup teams per year.
