As part of their Youth Development and Social Justice Capstone course, eight Penn State Brandywine students worked with children and teachers at the Alexander K. McClure Elementary School in North Philadelphia throughout the spring semester.
Putting their classroom knowledge into practice, eight Penn State Brandywine students had a positive impact working with children and teachers at the Alexander K. McClure Elementary School in North Philadelphia throughout the spring semester.
Approximately 200 seventh- and ninth-grade girls from schools in the Greater Philadelphia area visited Penn State Brandywine on May 8 and May 17 for the campus’ annual Career Pathways for Girls events, which are part of Brandywine’s STEM Options program.
Penn State Brandywine's Career Pathways for Girls program featured “discovery sessions”—hands-on, discovery-based workshops in classrooms and laboratory settings led by professional women in STEM.
Career Pathways for Girls, a part of Penn State Brandywine STEM Options, is a one-day program held on campus that features hands-on, discovery-based STEM workshops led by professional women in STEM.
Haleigh Swansen, a Schreyer Honors scholar who earned her bachelor’s degree in English in December 2016, is now enrolled in a yearlong conservatory program at Sight and Sound Theatres in Lancaster.
Penn State graduate Haleigh Swansen, a Schreyer Honors scholar who earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the Brandywine campus, is currently enrolled in a conservatory program at Sight and Sound Theatres, a professional Christian theatre that creates and produces original musicals based on Biblical stories.
At first glance, English majors and theater professionals may not appear to have much in common. But for Haleigh Swansen, the strong literary foundation she acquired at Penn State Brandywine helped prepare her for the stage.
Penn State researchers Christian Connell, Glenn Sterner, Mary Shenk, Stephanie Lanza, Max Crowley, Michael Donovan, Ericka Weathers, Maithreyi Gopalan, and Evan Bradley met with U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson, center, during the COSSA Social Science Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C.
Penn State researchers recently attended the Consortium of Social Science Association’s 2019 Social Science Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., taking part in a full schedule of events to bring awareness to social and behavioral sciences.
