To raise awareness about fair trade issues and child labor used in some cocoa fields, Penn State Brandywine students (the Fair Trade "TrailBlazers" as they are known) will host a fair trade s'mores event on campus Thursday, Aug. 16 in the John D. Vairo Library courtyard at 12:30 p.m.
Attendees will toast marshmallows, melt Equal Exchange fair trade chocolate and wrap them in graham cracker goodness while engaging in discussion about ethical chocolate.
The Office of Human Resources is pleased to announce the availability of childcare subsidy funds to qualifying student parents for fall 2012. Funds are available through the Child Care Access Means Parents in School Program awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Earlier this summer, Penn State Brandywine Distinguished Professor of English Adam Sorkin received the second prize ("Silver") Award for poetry published in 2011 from ForeWord Reviews in the online magazine's Book of the Year contest for his translation of poet Liliana Ursu's A Path to the Sea published by Pleasure Boat Studios. Sorkin is a leading translator of Romanian poetry to English.
Just two months after Penn State Brandywine was declared a Fair Trade University, thanks to a student-led campaign, the campus was honored with the Regional Fair Trade Award by the Media Fair Trade Town Committee. Media, where the campus is located, was the first Fair Trade Town in America.
Thanks to a new linkage agreement between Penn State Brandywine and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), up to five graduates of Brandywine's Accelerated Undergraduate Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences Certificate (Postbacc) program will continue their medical studies at PCOM each year. Qualified students will complete the Postbacc program in December, and be eligible to begin their osteopathic medicine studies the following August.
It's no secret that Pennsylvania public schools are struggling, and that their art programs are suffering greatly. This year, Penn State Brandywine has teamed up with Philadelphia-based nonprofit Fresh Artists to collect art supplies for under-resourced public schools.
Penn State Brandywine has a lot to celebrate, as several of its outstanding community members--junior Bobbi Caprice, retired Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Dan Doran and Tennis Coach Lloyd Vernon--were honored with prestigious awards by the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) at its annual Awards Luncheon May 21.
The campus' athletics program, as well, was recognized.
The unthinkable happened in 2006 when Kathy and Pat Meehan's son, Shawn, died at the age of 24 after a yearlong battle with leukemia.
Shattered by their loss, they were embraced by family and friends, including Kathy Meehan's colleagues at Penn State Brandywine, where she is senior instructor in human development and family studies (HDFS). "The campus community came together for us in an amazing way," she remembered.
Not many people can say they spoke with the President of the United States, but three Brandywine students had the ear of President Barack Obama by telephone in no less than the office of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs hosted a call with President Obama on Monday, May 7, to discuss the fight to keep federally subsidized student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1.
Senior Vick Arslanian immigrated from Achrafieh in Beirut, Lebanon to the United States in the summer of 2002. Having learned to read and write English at an early age, one would think the move was fairly easy. It wasn't. Arslanian remembers how difficult it was to adjust to his new life.
"When I first started school here I had to adjust to the way of life and learn a whole new set of rules to engage with classmates. I met people from different dialects and backgrounds who shared minimal to no common interests with me."