Marisa Maglaty, an adult learner enrolled in the Penn State Brandywine Accelerated Undergraduate Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences Certificate program, recently attended a weeklong program for career changers interested in exploring a career as a veterinarian. Held at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, the Adventures in Veterinary Medicine (AVM) Program seeks to expose nontraditional students to the field of veterinary studies.
The Penn State Video Learning Network, a system of 28 identically equipped high-technology classrooms at campuses statewide, has won the Association for Continuing Higher Education's (ACHE) Northeast Metropolitan 2013 Exceptional Program Award for excellence in credit programming.
At Penn State Brandywine, adult learners can enroll in accelerated programs offered through the Video Learning Network to complete their undergraduate degrees in business and nursing.
Associate Professor of Psychology Pauline Guerin, a Pennsylvania native who joined the faculty at Penn State Brandywine in fall 2012 after living and working in Australia since the 1990s, will return "down under" this summer to present at the Thirteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, at the end of June.
In celebration of summer's sweet arrival, Penn State Brandywine will host its annual Spend A Summer Evening Admissions event and Grill 'n' Chill barbecue on the campus lawn on Thursday, July 18 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
Penn State Brandywine Instructor in Chemistry and Physics Timothy Niiler received the award for "Best Poster" alongside a group of collaborators from A.I. duPont at the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) Conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio in May.
Penn State Brandywine honored its student athletes at the 25th Annual All-Sports Banquet at the Towne House Restaurant in Media, where 80 athletes and their families celebrated the 2012-2013 seasons.
The campus recognized students from its 10 sports: men's soccer, women's volleyball, men's and women's cross country, golf, tennis, men's and women's basketball, ice hockey and baseball. Recruitment is currently underway for the campus' new softball program, set to begin in spring 2014.
With a lifelong career devoted to American and women's literature, Phyllis Cole, professor of English, women's studies and American studies at Penn State Brandywine, will share her expertise as the keynote speaker of an international conference in Florence, Italy.
American women authors from the nineteenth century who engaged with Europe as readers and travelers will be the theme of "Transatlantic Women II: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Abroad," an author society conference dedicated to this theme that takes place June 6 through 9, 2013.
Find the positive, build connections, love your family and experiment. "It's all about your attitude, graduates," Penn State Brandywine Commencement speaker David Lipson Jr. '78 Com advised the class of 2013 on May 4 in the campus gymnasium.
A Penn State alumnus who has worked hard to build a successful career in magazine publishing, Lipson shared a few life sessions and words of encouragement with the more than 100 graduates.
Geysers, geothermal pools, glaciers, volcanoes, columnar basalt, tectonic plates, oh my! Iceland is a geologist's dream. Just ask Penn State Brandywine Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Laura Guertin, who spent five days studying the country's unique geological phenomena in early May.