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Alumni of color support students of color to kick off Black History Month

Penn State Brandywine hosted its inaugural "Shades of Success" Black Student Union Alumni Networking Event on Jan. 30 to kick-start celebrations for Black History Month. The event featured six alumni of color as part of Brandywine’s Alumni of Color Network who spoke about their experiences after graduating from Penn State and provided students with college and career advice.
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Brandywine Athletics inducts 2024 Hall of Fame class

The Penn State Brandywine Athletics Hall of Fame added four new members on Friday, Jan. 26. Members of the class of 2024 include former men’s soccer student-athlete Stephen Bucci, women’s basketball and volleyball student-athlete Carolyn Hilden, women’s basketball student-athlete Rachel Hurwitz-Casey, and women’s basketball coach Brian Donoghue.
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Penn State campuses celebrate, commemorate Black History Month

The last week of February 2024 still offers a few events across campuses for Black History Month, including at Penn State Brandywine, Harrisburg, Dickinson Law, Lehigh Valley, Shenango, and York. In addition, several exhibits are still available to visitors at Penn State University Park, Brandywine and Harrisburg.
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Undergraduate research may contribute to COVID-19 treatments

Penn State alumna Nora Margulis, who graduated in 2022, was still taking her courses virtually in spring of 2021, working toward her undergraduate degree in biology at Brandywine when Anna Sigmon, assistant professor of chemistry, offered her the opportunity to collaborate on research that could potentially help society cope with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. She jumped at the chance.
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Philadelphia TV meteorologist joins Penn State Brandywine faculty

Drew Anderson joined Penn State Brandywine’s Earth sciences department as a part-time lecturer in August. He received his bachelor of science in meteorology from Penn State and immediately jumped into broadcast news, working as a meteorologist at NBC in Lancaster and NBC in Scranton, and he’s currently a meteorologist at FOX 29 in Philadelphia. In 2014, he started teaching at Penn State Abington and a few other local universities as an adjunct professor.