Penn State Brandywine will host its 50th Anniversary Gala at 6 p.m. on May 11. The 1960s-themed, black-tie-optional evening of food and entertainment will be held in the campus’ new Student Union. Proceeds will benefit Brandywine’s emergency scholarship fund.
John Milligan recently joined Penn State Brandywine’s Office of Police and Public Safety as a campus police officer. Milligan, a 1985 Penn State graduate, spent his first two years at Brandywine before transitioning to University Park to complete his degree in business.
Penn State students recently returned from a weeklong study abroad trip to Sicily and Malta that was organized by Penn State Brandywine Global Programs. Global Programs combines academic courses with a short-term travel experience abroad and is open to all Penn State students. Pictured are cousins Nikki, left, and Amy Poissant at the Ancient Theatre of Taormina in Italy. Nikki is a student at the Brandywine campus, while Amy attends the University Park campus.
Lynn Hartle, professor of education at Penn State Brandywine, is well acquainted with the struggles faced by early childhood educators. Before beginning her career in higher education, she founded and directed a preschool program in Cookeville, Tennessee, and experienced some difficult years.
Lynn Hartle, professor of education at Penn State Brandywine, recently visited Washington, D.C., to advocate for early childhood educators. Pictured from left to right: Lauren Hogan, senior director of public policy and advocacy at the National Association for the Education of Young Children; Hartle; and Rhian Evans Allvin, chief executive officer of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Members of Penn State Brandywine’s Nittany Christian Fellowship spent their spring break positively impacting low-income families by volunteering in an impoverished region of southwest Virginia.
Students in Brandywine’s Nittany Christian Fellowship club spent their spring break upgrading the homes of low-income families in rural Virginia. For one of the volunteer projects, students built walls and a roof for a two-room addition to a one-bedroom trailer.
The spring season continued for Penn State Brandywine’s baseball and softball teams last week as the Lions played through cold, rainy weather, while that same weather forced cancellations to tennis, which saw its spring debuts pushed back one week.
