Are you ready for it? Penn State Berks will offer a new course titled “Taylor Swift, Gender, and Communication” starting in the fall 2024 semester. The class will hold 100 seats with 50 spots reserved for current Berks students and the other 50 spots available for incoming first-year students.
At the end of 2023, nine student teams consisting of Penn State Berks mechanical engineering and occupational therapy assistant majors presented adaptive equipment designs they created to meet the needs of individuals with physical challenges. This spring, three teams will collaborate with business majors to create a business plan for their designs.
Mamadou Diallo crossed the stage at the Penn State Berks commencement ceremony as a graduate of the college’s practical nursing certificate program on Saturday, Dec. 16.
Penn State Berks Thun Library reference and instruction librarians Sarah Hartman-Caverly and Alexandria Chisholm were interviewed on New Books Network's Library Science podcast to discuss their 2023 book, "Privacy Literacy Practices in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases."
In a unique collaboration this fall, Penn State Berks engineering students in the college’s Futures in Engineering: Role-models Can Empower student organization worked with the Berks County Intermediate Unit and area high school students to make toys more accessible for local special needs children.
Two Penn State Smeal College of Business students and a student from Penn State Berks collaborated to win the 2023 Business with Integrity Case Competition.
Ten new Penn State Berks craft-brewing certificate program students will graduate as the first cohort in December 2023 following completion of their final Brew Practicum course. The students will host a tasting of their new brew from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16, at Broken Goblet Brewing in Bensalem.
Seven Penn State campuses have created the Commonwealth Arboreta Network, a network that will inventory trees and plant life while sharing research and teaching resources, with the eventual goal of creating an arboretum at each of the University's 24 campuses.
Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) has introduced the inaugural Teaching and Learning Technologies Faculty Advisory Committee for the 2023-24 academic year. The committee will play a pivotal role in guiding TLT and University IT in integrating technology into teaching and learning practices at Penn State.
“In the Aspiring Scholars Program, I became comfortable with myself. I was able to have a fresh start and have people accept me for who I am. It’s why I decided to stay at Berks, and it impacted me so much that I wanted to have the same impact and inspire other foster youth to come to college,” said senior hospitality management major Amy Yu.
