In honor of Women's History Month, Penn State Brandywine will host "Women in Athletics," a panel discussion led by Olympic hurdler Candy Young, athletic director at Delaware State University, and Emmy Award-winning Sports Broadcaster Jaime Fettrow-Alderfer, on Thursday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m. in the Tomezsko Classroom Building Lounge.
Poet Ethel Rackin will join Penn State Brandywine in a poetry and literature reading during its annual Litapalooza Literary Festival on Tuesday, April 2 at 11:30 a.m. in the Tomezsko Classroom Building lounge. During this highly anticipated, free public event, students and guests are encouraged to share their own creative works by reading, reciting, chanting, narrating, rapping or even singing for their peers
Middletown Township is hosting its 19th Annual Community Day at Penn State Brandywine on Saturday, May 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This fun-filled outdoor event brings together the community, local businesses and the Township government to celebrate the hometown pride of Middletown Township.
Penn State Brandywine will host the Fair Trade Colleges and Universities Mid-Atlantic Fair Trade Student Training workshop on Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help students, faculty, administration and others organize their campaigns to become the next fair trade college or university.
Penn State Brandywine's fifth annual "A Night with the Pride" Beef 'n' Beverage event on February 22, raised nearly $4,300 to support student athletics and Global Programs.
The event, which took place at the Ballrooms at Boothwyn, included dinner, a drawing for more than 40 baskets filled with goodies and gift certificates and entertainment for the more than 160 attendees. Three lucky attendees went home with Flyers tickets, Phillies tickets and a weekend at an Avalon beach house.
Penn State Brandywine is hosting a competition called "Pride in Print" for budding journalists in the region. Students and their newspaper advisers are asked to submit recent news articles for submission and judging in one of three categories: news, feature writing and sports. Submissions will be judged based on value or importance of the story, quality of reporting and quotes and quality of writing and editing.
Please note the PCPA conference has been canceled.
The Penn State Brandywine Office of Student Affairs will host the Pennsylvania College Personnel Association's Keystone Seminar "The Risk, Reward and Benefit of Hosting a Conference" on March 15. This Keystone Seminar Series is a one-day, drive-in professional development opportunity for higher education professionals (staff, graduate students and faculty). Past seminars have included topics such as grant writing in higher education, aiding students in distress and assessment.
Penn State Brandywine will welcome Andrew Douglas, director of education at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, to campus for an attention-grabbing discussion about a pioneer of the film industry, Alfred Hitchcock. Students, faculty, staff and the community are welcome to join Douglas as he presents "The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock" at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 14, in Room 101 of the Main Building.
Research conducted by Penn State Brandywine Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies Jennifer Zosh has discovered that toddlers learn new words more effectively by using their knowledge about the world to infer the label of an object, rather than by simply being instructed and told which word goes with which object.
"Optimal Contrast: Competition Between Two Referents Improves Word Learning" has been published in the latest special issue of Applied Developmental Science.
Penn State Brandywine Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies David Macauley has been honored this academic year with a fellowship from the University of Pennsylvania.
As a 2012-2013 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Macauley is spending the year collaborating with approximately 25 fellow scholars from the region who come together each week to discuss their work before presenting on their areas of expertise during the Penn Humanities Forum, a series of events promoting an ongoing cultural conversation.