Thanks to a seed grant from the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses, Penn State Brandywine was able to watch its garden grow from 2,500 square feet to 3,600 square feet. On September 14, members of the Penn State Brandywine community celebrated the expansion of the campus garden with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The campus garden, which opened in 2014, is housed between the Vairo Library and Orchard Hall, where members of the Brandywine community can connect with nature.
The Penn State Brandywine campus garden’s expansion project, which began in January, was marked as officially completed with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sept. 14.
Earl Catagnus Jr., after a rigorous search process, was hired as a full-time assistant teaching professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State Brandywine.
The Penn State Brandywine Alumni Society will be a sponsor for “Dining Under the Stars” — a weekly outdoor dining event held Wednesday evenings on State Street in Media — throughout the month of September. As part of the Media community, the Brandywine Alumni Society is an event sponsor for the second year in a row.
Penn State Brandywine will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a series of events starting on Friday, Sept. 15, and ending on Sunday, Oct. 15. All events are open to Penn State students, faculty and staff.
At the end of the spring 2023 semester, six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the second year of Penn State’s Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Champion Awards. A collaboration between Penn State University Libraries and the University-wide OAER Working Group, the OAER Champion Award began as a pilot initiative in 2022 and seeks to recognize excellence, innovation and impact in open educational practices at Penn State campuses.
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on the rise in Pennsylvania and across the nation, Penn State is urging its community to continue to take health precautions and follow guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to keep themselves and others healthy.
Dana Hallahan joined Penn State Brandywine as the new assistant director of alumni relations in the campus development and alumni relations office in August.
