Is fracking polluting the water? How dangerous is nuclear power? Will gasoline prices continue to rise? Can coal be cleaned up? Can renewable energy really power the future?
Penn State Brandywine will host a screening of the film "SWITCH," which features Geologist and University of Texas at Austin Professor Scott Tinker answering today's most controversial energy questions, as he travels the world exploring leading energy sites, from coal to solar, oil to biofuels--most of them highly restricted and never before seen on film.
The Penn State Brandywine women's volleyball team will again join the fight against breast cancer at its second annual Dig Pink with Brandywine event to raise funds for The Side-Out Foundation on Saturday, Sept. 29, in the Commons Building gymnasium. The tournament, which is free and open to the public, will include a quad match, which is two courts running games at 2 to 4 p.m.
As the crisp, cool air rolls in and the fall semester gets underway, Penn State Brandywine is buzzing with excitement for this year's jam-packed annual Penn State Day event. In addition to the fall festival and accompanying admissions program for high school students on Saturday, Oct. 20, the campus will host its second annual 5K Run/One-Mile Walk to raise money for student scholarships, a volleyball tournament and a cross country invitational.
In honor of the Constitution's 225th anniversary, Penn State Brandywine is participating in the Philabundance Paper Plate Advocacy Project on Constitution Day, Monday, Sept. 17. Members of the campus community are asked to write a message about hunger on an empty paper plate, have their photo taken holding the plate and then post the photo to the Philabundance Facebook wall. For every plate posted to the wall, Philabundance, the region's largest food bank, will provide one meal to someone in need. The plates will then be sent to Governor Tom Corbett.
To help raise awareness and funds for victims of abuse, Penn State Brandywine is asking its students, faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends to join the campus in a Brandywine Blue Out on Friday, Sept. 21, one day before the Blue Out at Beaver Stadium.
The idea is to turn the campus into a sea of blue, the official color of child abuse prevention, to show solidarity with the University and support for victims.
Each year, the Penn State Brandywine community comes together to read, discuss and share one novel, chosen prior to the fall semester. This year's Common Read, as it's called, is "Start Something That Matters" by Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS Shoes.
Throughout the 2012-2013 academic year, the campus will host a number of events that encourage students, faculty and staff to share their thoughts on the book and comment on its themes and ideologies in relation to their own.
Penn State Brandywine has received a generous donation from W. W. Smith Charitable Trust of $48,000 for student scholarships. This funding will be awarded to full-time undergraduate students who reside in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties and who have a GPA of 2.5 or higher.
For the tenth year in a row, several Penn State Brandywine students have had essays published in the Penn State "Best of Freshman Writing Journal, Volume 17." This year, six students from the campus (out of 23 total University-wide) had essays they had written in Associate Professor of English and Linguistics Myra Goldschmidt's English classes (English 015 and English 030), published in the journal.
For the past year, Danielle DePaul, a senior letter, arts and sciences major at Penn State Brandywine, has been involved with an organization that holds personal meaning for her--the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Philadelphia.
The experience has been an important chapter in DePaul's life.
"It provides me with the opportunity to engage in the search for a cure for type-1 diabetes, a disease I live with everyday," she said. "However, it also gives me the chance to spread my knowledge and experiences."
Last spring, Penn State Brandywine Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences Susan Fredricks had a unique opportunity to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic.