Megan Kawamoto is spending her summer not on the beach or by the pool, but in a cemetery. The sophomore engineering major has teamed up with Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Laura Guertin to study marble gravestones to uncover hundreds of years' worth of pollution and climate information. Their results will help unearth just how much more pollution is in the air today.
Senior Stephanie Tracy has accomplished many things as a student at Penn State Brandywine. She played on the men's soccer team for three years and is currently on the cross country team. She has earned a 4.0 in each of the last two semesters and served as secretary of the Student Government Association (SGA) this past academic year.
Penn State Brandywine Professor of English Phyllis Cole was honored last month with the prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. An active member of the group for more than two decades, Cole said the award was not only a surprise, but also humbling.
"The company I am in makes this a really significant honor," she said. "The people who have won this award are nationally and internationally-known Emerson scholars, at a time when Emerson's stock is very high. It's a recognition by a group of people I really value."
Penn State Brandywine athletes were recognized for another great season at the 23rd annual Athletics Banquet on Sunday, May 15, at D'Ignazio's Towne House in Media.
Laura Patton, intramural and fitness center coordinator, said the banquet was held to recognize student athletes who have performed well during the season both in the classroom and on the field of play.Â
Penn State Brandywine held its twentieth annual Math Options event, warmly welcoming seventh grade girls from 24 local schools, who are interested in math and science, on Friday, May 20. The event encourages young girls to consider pursing math or science in the future and shows them just how fun it can be. The girls learn they can break the mold and be successful in these fields that are historically male-oriented.
Two Penn State Brandywine Cooper Honors Scholars presented their research at the 8th Semi-Annual Undergraduate Research at the Capitol Event in Pennsylvania in April.
Twenty-six students from eleven Pennsylvania colleges and universities were selected for this honor, which showcases outstanding and award-winning projects by undergraduate students from Pennsylvania. Penn State was also represented by students from University Park.
Middletown Township made quite an impression during its 325th anniversary celebration and annual Community Day festival on Saturday, May 7 at Penn State Brandywine.
In addition to the more than 100 vendors and organizations that featured games, music, and great food and other items for sale, the Township kicked off the day of fun with a parade. Penn State Brandywine Chancellor Sophia Wisniewska made her way down the parade route in style, as she waved to onlookers from an American flag-clad corvette provided by the Delaware County Corvette Association.
Amidst a sea of smiling faces and cocktail dresses, friends of Penn State Brandywine came together at the campus' Spring Soiree at the Merion Cricket Club in April to help make education affordable for current and future students.
Together the group raised nearly $30,000 to benefit the Penn State Brandywine Student Scholarship Fund. The event's live and silent auctions included a Joe Paterno-signed football, vacation homes in Jamaica and Myrtle Beach, fine jewelry, Phillies autographed gear, tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra and much more.
Where there's a will, there's a way, and Myra Goldschmidt's honors civic engagement students were determined last spring to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Inspired by the words of Brandywine alumnus and humanitarian, Aldo Magazzeni, who shared his experiences during a campus visit, they came up with an idea that led to unimagined success in raising funds for this purpose.
One family's tragedy has become one class' combined mission for prevention education.
Last December, four-year-old Isabelle Jean Wage-Sindon, along with her father and paternal grandfather, were killed in a catastrophic house fire in Binghamton, N.Y. The house had no smoke detectors.