During the past academic year, computer science major Renusree Bandaru was an active student — spending her time serving as president of the women in engineering club, participating in the multicultural club and, of course, staying on top of her classes. But the end of the school year didn’t slow down Bandaru, who participated in Penn State’s Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates program this past summer.
In an era of remote teaching and learning, PaSSS program leaders have translated the robust, multi-faceted experience into a format which students could complete from home, and the results have been inspiring.
For Penn State alumna Dana Piatt, earning a bachelor of arts degree in psychology at the Brandywine campus was a key step to becoming an animal trainer and achieving a career dream she held since she was six years old.
Penn State released its coronavirus testing results for the week of Sept. 4 to 10 on its COVID-19 dashboard today (Sept. 11). Among students tested at the University Park campus, Penn State received 260 positive results from its on-demand testing and 28 positive results from its random screening. Random screening of employees has returned one positive result for University Park thus far for the week.
Penn State has updated its public COVID-19 dashboard with on-demand testing and random screening results from the period of Sept. 4-6, as well as new results from the prior week. These numbers are evolving as it can take up to 48 hours for test results to be received, which then are validated and uploaded.
For Penn State Brandywine communications major Sophie Keller, completing a summer internship at a Philadelphia public relations agency helped build her skill set and focus her career interests.
Last week, Penn State’s Food Services launched Penn State Eats mobile ordering. The new mobile ordering system, integrated through the recently launched Penn State Go app, under the Dining tab. The new mobile ordering app allows students, faculty, staff and guests the option to order food from their mobile devices, providing them with a cashless and contactless food service experience.
Victor Ficarra, a senior business major at Penn State Brandywine, recently completed a remote internship with J.P. Morgan that reaffirmed his post-undergraduate goals and gave him the professional connections and experience needed to navigate his career path.
Brandywine's second class of hall-of-famers includes former coach and administrator, Ron Case, and four standout student-athletes: Jennifer Crossman-Palermo, Shari Harper, Karl Jastrzebski and Mike Thornton.
Five new faculty members have joined Penn State Brandywine for the 2020-21 academic year. Teaching and research areas for the three tenure-track faculty and two assistant teaching professors include business, chemistry, communications, engineering and information technology.
