Brandywine Boost clients receive advisory, practical and sometimes financial support from Penn State Brandywine. Pictured from left to right are several 2018-19 Brandywine Boost clients: Soraya Gutman, CrossTalks; Jaclyn DiGregorio, CuspIt; Daphne Bradley, Design by Daphne; Carolyn Maccariella, C Mac’s Barbershop; and Debbie Brodeur and Rachel Yalisove, Lansdowne Economic Development Corp.
Martin Yeh, assistant professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State Brandywine, is working with faculty from New York University and the University of Colorado to change the way humans understand computer coding.
When Penn State Brandywine received a PepsiCo-funded Sustainable Communities Collaborative grant in 2017, the campus outlined local food insecurity as an issue it hoped to address. Most recently, students, faculty and staff banded together to combat food insecurity through the campus’ second annual Fixings for Thanksgiving Club Challenge.
Career Pathways for Students, a part of Penn State Brandywine STEM Options, is a one-day program held on campus that features hands-on, discovery-based STEM sessions led by professionals in STEM.
This week's #Brandywinner is Yani Rodriguez! An involved student who started her degree at Brandywine, Yani is now a student at University Park, where she serves as president of the Mexican-American Student Association. During her time at Brandywine, Yani was vice president of SGA, the civic and community engagement intern and a mentor for the campus’ PaSSS program.
Katya Iatsenko’s day starts while most of her Brandywine peers are still asleep. At 5 a.m., long before her classes start, the sophomore biochemistry major spends a few hours teaching — and her students live more than 6,000 miles away.
