Brandywine faculty and staff collected about 2,000 used Keurig K-Cups with the intention to repurpose each to keep the single-serve, plastic brewing pods out of landfills. The revamped K-Cups -- now tree ornaments -- were attached to strands of lights, and added to a tree at the Tyler Arboretum on Dec. 1.
Each year, Penn State students, faculty and staff get together to celebrate Thanksgiving, learn about traditions and create their own. Here is a look at the food drives and dinners at Penn State locations around the state.
A vote Thursday (Nov. 19) to recommend residential housing projects at Penn State’s Abington and Brandywine campuses to the University’s Board of Trustees was logged by the Committee on Finance, Business, and Capital Planning.
Mike Arata, Penn State alumnus, director of engineering at United Airlines, and Penn State Brandywine advisory board member, will be the speaker at Penn State Brandywine’s fall commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 18, in the Commons Building Gymnasium on campus.
Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine professor of Earth science, was named a Geological Society of America fellow and received the 2015 Distinguished Teacher Award given by the Pennsylvania Geographical Society, earlier this month.
Penn State Brandywine senior setter Miranda Biondi added two more awards to her collection as she was named United States Collegiate Athletic Association Volleyball Student-Athlete of the Year and earned second team all-American accolades during the association's end-of-year awards banquet on Wednesday evening
Hans Schmidt, assistant professor of communications at Penn State Brandywine, received the Pennsylvania Communication Association’s 2015 Harvey Kelly Award for Excellence in Teaching at the association’s 76th annual convention.
Penn State Brandywine recently hosted its annual scholarship luncheon, which honors student scholarship recipients and recognizes the alumni and friends of Penn State Brandywine who have established scholarships for the campus. The event gives each the opportunity to meet and students the chance to thank the donors for their generous contributions to their college experience.
It may seem earlier than usual to discuss presidential hopefuls for the 2016 election, but since the race for the White House is in full swing, let’s call in the political expert: Stephen Cimbala. Cimbala, distinguished professor of political science at Penn State Brandywine, will discuss the prospects and the pitfalls of the 2016 presidential campaigns at 12:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in Room 113 of the Main Building at Penn State Brandywine.
This semester, an Earth 100 (GN) Environmental Earth course taught by Laura Guertin, professor of earth sciences, at Penn State Brandywine will be the first undergraduate university course to generate pages on the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) Wiki, one for each of her 30 students.
