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.
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.
Penn State Brandywine is officially the No. 1 team in United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II men's soccer. It took more than 95 minutes to crown a national champion Monday night as Daniel Willie's overtime goal sent Brandywine past Johnson & Wales (North Carolina) 1-0 in the title game as Brandywine captured the school's first-ever national championship
Ever since the Penn State Brandywine campus was founded in 1967, faculty, staff and students have been working together to make it a safe and supportive environment. One more recent example of the campus community in action is the Brandywine Care Team.
When Jemimah Mwaba, a sophomore at Penn State Brandywine, decided to attend the 2018 Pennsylvania Conference for Women, all she knew was that a few of the speakers’ names had caught her eye. Once she arrived, she found herself impressed not only by the speakers, but the other women present.
Penn State alumna Bobbi Caprice, a four-year student-athlete at Brandywine, has been named the campus’ athletic director effective Monday, Nov. 5. Caprice has served as assistant athletic director for the past three years.
Students, faculty, staff and community members are invited to attend a livestream of Katharine Hayhoe’s keynote presentation at the 2018 Colloquium on the Environment on Thursday, Nov. 15, at University Park. The livestream will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 103 of the Tomezsko Building at Penn State Brandywine.
