Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. The invitation-only ceremony for the 2018 awards was Tuesday, April 3, at University Park.
Kristen P. Goessling, assistant professor of human development and family studies at Penn State Brandywine, has received the 2018 Outreach and Online Education Emerging Faculty Award for Engaged Scholarship.
Penn State students recently returned from a weeklong study-abroad trip to Sicily and Malta that was organized by Penn State Brandywine Global Programs. Global Programs combines academic courses with a short-term travel experience abroad.
Penn State Brandywine will host its 50th Anniversary Gala at 6 p.m. on May 11. The 1960s-themed, black-tie-optional evening of food and entertainment will be held in the campus’ new Student Union. Proceeds will benefit Brandywine’s emergency scholarship fund.
John Milligan recently joined Penn State Brandywine’s Office of Police and Public Safety as a campus police officer. Milligan, a 1985 Penn State graduate, spent his first two years at Brandywine before transitioning to University Park to complete his degree in business.
Lynn Hartle, professor of education at Penn State Brandywine, is well acquainted with the struggles faced by early childhood educators. Before beginning her career in higher education, she founded and directed a preschool program in Cookeville, Tennessee, and experienced some difficult years.
Members of Penn State Brandywine’s Nittany Christian Fellowship spent their spring break positively impacting low-income families by volunteering in an impoverished region of southwest Virginia.
The spring season continued for Penn State Brandywine’s baseball and softball teams last week as the Lions played through cold, rainy weather, while that same weather forced cancellations to tennis, which saw its spring debuts pushed back one week.
Penn State Brandywine students gained a fresh perspective on the reach and impacts of global hunger by participating in an Oxfam Hunger Banquet on campus.
Delaware County Court of Common Pleas Judge Nathaniel C. Nichols will speak at Brandywine’s spring commencement on May 5. Nichols was elected to a 10-year judicial term in 2011 after practicing and teaching law for nearly 40 years.
