Penn State Brandywine will play host to the 29th Annual William Rush Woodcarving and Wildlife Art Show and Sale on Saturday, Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Student Government Association at Penn State Brandywine will host a Town Hall meeting with State Representative Dan Truitt on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 12:30 p.m. in the Main Building, room 101. Rep. Truitt will discuss various state issues at this free and public event.
Lily Jundi '03 IST not only speaks the language of computers--thanks to her Penn State education--but also is fluent in Spanish, Hebrew and several Arabic dialects, not to mention a good knowledge of Portuguese, Turkish and Italian. She adroitly switches between languages like a commuter switches trains. With her Penn State education, natural knack for languages and incurable travel bug, she's had no trouble finding work in far off lands from Delaware County.
Penn State Brandywine senior Labanya Mookerjee has turned her summer internship into a campus-wide initiative aimed at saving art in Philadelphia public schools by hosting a Fresh Artists Festival on Thursday, Nov. 1.
What do shoes have to do with social responsibility? Penn State Brandywine is about to find out. On Thursday, Oct. 25, the campus is asking Penn Staters to help kick off its Common Read program in three ways: 1. Show Us Your Shoes, 2. donate your shoes for a Paired Shoe Brigade and 3. learn about social responsibility and entrepreneurship.
Penn State Brandywine hosted the second annual Dig Pink Day on Saturday, Sept. 29 during their quad match on home court. This event was set up last year by Volleyball Head Coach Melissa Algeo to raise funds for the Side Out Foundation. The Side Out Foundation's goal is to unite volleyball players and coaches, and have them work toward the common goal of furthering breast cancer awareness, education and patient services.
Fundraising for this year's Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) kicked off last Friday with the first canning weekend, and Penn State Brandywine Benefitting THON raised more than $2,800. Sophomore Finance Major Chris Kramer says this weekend was a great start to what he hopes to be a record breaking year for Brandywine THON.
In an effort to help build classroom libraries in low income neighborhoods, Penn State Brandywine is partnering with Philadelphia Reads in the "GMC Cars to People Program" October 22-26. GMC is loaning Philadelphia Reads a new car to make book donation pick-ups, and will shoot video at each location. Philadelphia Reads will visit the Brandywine campus Tuesday, Oct. 23 during common hour, and plans are underway to collect as many books as possible throughout the month.
Pauline Guerin, psychology program coordinator and associate professor of psychology at Penn State Brandywine, may be new to the University, but certainly not her ancestors. Guerin has traced her family tree--thanks to her genealogy-hobbyist dad--all the way back (and beyond) to Frederick Watts (1801-1889) who is considered to be the father of Penn State and the first board chairperson of the University.
This past summer, approximately 20 international graduate students traveled from their homelands to the Philadelphia region over many hours and through multiple time zones.
With intentions to begin a one-year master's degree program in finance at Penn State Great Valley, the students soon found out that getting to their U.S. destination was the easy part. For first time visitors, even having studied the English language for many years in school, it would take a while to grasp the quirks and nuances of American language and culture.