Penn State will celebrate its ninth GivingTuesday on Nov. 28, and Penn State Brandywine invites alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends to participate by showing support for the Penn State Brandywine Emergency Scholarship Fund and Penn State Brandywine Athletic Enhancement Fund.
Penn State Brandywine held its first Mock Shaadi (mock South Asian wedding) on Friday, Nov. 10. A cross-collaboration event with Multilingual and International Student Programs, the Bangladeshi Student Association, and the Multicultural Club, the Mock Shaadi featured traditional South Asian food, dancing, games and more.
Penn State Brandywine’s new Hype Squad is raising the level of excitement and engagement at home sporting events. The 15-member team was present at several soccer and volleyball games this fall, and the squad led cheers from the sideline and performed at halftime for the first home men’s basketball game on Nov. 9.
Penn State Brandywine’s and Penn State Berks’ LaunchBoxes collaborated with Penn State Great Valley to hold the Fall 2023 Idea TestLab Pitch Competition on Nov. 8. Nine startup business owners participated in the competition, which included two students from Brandywine, as well as seven members of the campus’ respective communities.
Khalid Jordan, a third-year business major at Penn State Brandywine, was one of eight Penn State students in the Commonwealth to receive funding for his small business at the 2023 Invent Penn State Venture & IP Conference in Hershey on Oct. 16.
At an event held on Oct. 31, leaders from the Student Philanthropy Network announced that the class of 2024 has voted to create the University Park Undergraduate Association Basic Needs Endowment as their class gift. The fund will provide sustained support for students facing hardships in pursuit of their degree.
