Twelve incoming freshmen at Penn State Brandywine are spending their summer earning credits, making friends and getting the lay of the land through the campus' Be A Lion program. These summer session courses are designed to help students get acclimated and get a head start on their college careers in a more relaxed setting during the summer months.
Penn State Brandywine has chosen the novel The Fault in Our Stars as its 2013-14 Common Read. Throughout the upcoming academic year, students, faculty, staff and the community are encouraged to read this book and come together for various events to discuss its themes and ideologies. Some teachers also will assign the book in class and use it during academic discussion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
