Penn State Berks birthday celebration slated for July 9
6/13/18
Students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends are invited to a celebration in honor of the 60th “birthday” for Penn State Berks at 12:15 p.m. Monday, July 9, at the Perkins Plaza.
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High school students invited to spend a summer evening at Penn State Berks
6/13/18
Students who will be high school seniors and their families are invited to attend the Penn State Berks Spend a Summer Evening program beginning at 6 p.m. July 17.
Scholar alumna uses technology to empower children with autism spectrum disorder
6/4/18
Penn State Berks graduate and Schreyer Honors Scholar Kaylee Grindrod researched apps that help children with autism spectrum disorder to read and interpret facial expressions — and developed one of her own.
Penn State Berks Middle School Discovery Camps focus on STEAM
5/30/18
Penn State Berks offers a variety of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) related Middle School Discovery Camps in a fun and relaxed environment. The camps are for students entering fifth through eighth grades in fall 2018. Camps run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Penn State Berks Day at Knoebels slated for June 23
5/30/18
The college will host a Penn State Berks Family Day at Knoebels Amusement Resort in Elysburg on June 23 for students, faculty, staff, alumni and families.
5-for-5: One sweet spring to never forget
5/24/18
Penn State Berks athletics pulled off an amazing feat this spring that has never been seen before, by the program itself or by any institution in the North Eastern Athletic Conference. All five of the teams with championships in the spring won the conference title and four of those teams went on to compete in the NCAA Tournament.
Berks teams with Reading Public Works to prevent storm drain pollution
5/24/18
Berks students teamed up with the City of Reading Public Works Department to implement projects that will inform residents about the harmful effects of dumping chemicals and litter into the storm drains leading into the Schuylkill River.
Careers with Math Options celebrates 22 years of STEM success
5/23/18
Penn State Berks celebrated the 22nd anniversary of its Careers with Math Options Conference on May 9. A record total of 335 female seventh-grade students and 35 chaperones from 19 schools around Berks County area attended the day-long event.
Penn State Berks hosts 'Bridging the Gap' veterans mental health summit
5/23/18
Penn State Berks will host a mental health summit for veterans titled “Bridging the Gap” from 8:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 8, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
Penn State Berks Alumni Society honors three members
5/23/18
The Berks Alumni Society has honored three of its members with awards. Gregory Flemming received the Volunteer Service Award; Timothy Hillert, Outstanding Young Alumnus; and Shawn Hinkle, Alumni Achievement Award.
Penn State Berks holds adult info session on June 18
5/23/18
Berks Office of Continuing Education will hold an adult learner information session beginning at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2018, in room 101 of the Franco Building, Penn State Berks.
Saint-Fort receives Fulbright award to study impact of immigration
5/22/18
Penn State Berks alumna Launick Saint-Fort recently received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to Luxembourg in Public Health from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
From the Horn of Africa to Penn State Berks
5/22/18
When Tesfay Rezene was just 14 years old, he lived with his family in a small village in the African nation of Eritrea. When government authorities announced that they would be removing children from school, Rezene fled the country and never returned.
'Rocket Man'
5/22/18
Kale Odhner and his fellow Penn State Berks students took their senior capstone project all the way to the "Sugar Shot to Space" in California’s Mojave Desert in hopes of breaking a world record for altitude with a sugar-fueled rocket.
Student entrepreneurs compete for $30,000 in funding on 'The Investment'
5/21/18
Sherveen Karbasiafshar is a biology student at Penn State. He, along with five other undergraduates, created HemoGO — a smartphone application designed to assist people who want to check their complete blood count on the go. HemoGO is one of six Penn State student startups working with the Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program to compete for a pool of $30,000 in the annual Inc.U competition show “The Investment,” airing at 8 p.m. May 24 on WPSU.