What do shoes have to do with social responsibility? Penn State Brandywine is about to find out. On Thursday, Oct. 25, the campus is asking Penn Staters to help kick off its Common Read program in three ways: 1. Show Us Your Shoes, 2. donate your shoes for a Paired Shoe Brigade and 3. learn about social responsibility and entrepreneurship.
Penn State Brandywine senior Labanya Mookerjee has turned her summer internship into a campus-wide initiative aimed at saving art in Philadelphia public schools by hosting a Fresh Artists Festival on Thursday, Nov. 1.
Penn State Brandywine hosted the second annual Dig Pink Day on Saturday, Sept. 29 during their quad match on home court. This event was set up last year by Volleyball Head Coach Melissa Algeo to raise funds for the Side Out Foundation. The Side Out Foundation's goal is to unite volleyball players and coaches, and have them work toward the common goal of furthering breast cancer awareness, education and patient services.
Fundraising for this year's Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) kicked off last Friday with the first canning weekend, and Penn State Brandywine Benefitting THON raised more than $2,800. Sophomore Finance Major Chris Kramer says this weekend was a great start to what he hopes to be a record breaking year for Brandywine THON.
In an effort to help build classroom libraries in low income neighborhoods, Penn State Brandywine is partnering with Philadelphia Reads in the "GMC Cars to People Program" October 22-26. GMC is loaning Philadelphia Reads a new car to make book donation pick-ups, and will shoot video at each location. Philadelphia Reads will visit the Brandywine campus Tuesday, Oct. 23 during common hour, and plans are underway to collect as many books as possible throughout the month.
Pauline Guerin, psychology program coordinator and associate professor of psychology at Penn State Brandywine, may be new to the University, but certainly not her ancestors. Guerin has traced her family tree--thanks to her genealogy-hobbyist dad--all the way back (and beyond) to Frederick Watts (1801-1889) who is considered to be the father of Penn State and the first board chairperson of the University.
This past summer, approximately 20 international graduate students traveled from their homelands to the Philadelphia region over many hours and through multiple time zones.
With intentions to begin a one-year master's degree program in finance at Penn State Great Valley, the students soon found out that getting to their U.S. destination was the easy part. For first time visitors, even having studied the English language for many years in school, it would take a while to grasp the quirks and nuances of American language and culture.
Is fracking polluting the water? How dangerous is nuclear power? Will gasoline prices continue to rise? Can coal be cleaned up? Can renewable energy really power the future?
Penn State Brandywine will host a screening of the film "SWITCH," which features Geologist and University of Texas at Austin Professor Scott Tinker answering today's most controversial energy questions, as he travels the world exploring leading energy sites, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels--most of them highly restricted and never before seen on film.
The Penn State Brandywine women's volleyball team will again join the fight against breast cancer at its second annual Dig Pink with Brandywine event to raise funds for The Side-Out Foundation on Saturday, Sept. 29, in the Commons Building gymnasium. The tournament, which is free and open to the public, will include a quad match, which is two courts running games at 2 to 4 p.m.
As the crisp, cool air rolls in and the fall semester gets underway, Penn State Brandywine is buzzing with excitement for this year's jam-packed annual Penn State Day event. In addition to the fall festival and accompanying admissions program for high school students on Saturday, Oct. 20, the campus will host its second annual 5K Run/One-Mile Walk to raise money for student scholarships, a volleyball tournament and a cross country invitational.