Penn State alumna Bobbi Caprice, a four-year student-athlete at Brandywine, has been named the campus’ athletic director effective Monday, Nov. 5. Caprice has served as assistant athletic director for the past three years.
When Jemimah Mwaba, a sophomore at Penn State Brandywine, decided to attend the 2018 Pennsylvania Conference for Women, all she knew was that a few of the speakers’ names had caught her eye. Once she arrived, she found herself impressed not only by the speakers, but the other women present.
Ever since the Penn State Brandywine campus was founded in 1967, faculty, staff and students have been working together to make it a safe and supportive environment. One more recent example of the campus community in action is the Brandywine Care Team.
Penn State Brandywine is officially the No. 1 team in United States Collegiate Athletic Association Division II men's soccer. It took more than 95 minutes to crown a national champion Monday night as Daniel Willie's overtime goal sent Brandywine past Johnson & Wales (North Carolina) 1-0 in the title game as Brandywine captured the school's first-ever national championship
Katya Iatsenko’s day starts while most of her Brandywine peers are still asleep. At 5 a.m., long before her classes start, the sophomore biochemistry major spends a few hours teaching — and her students live more than 6,000 miles away.
When Penn State Brandywine received a PepsiCo-funded Sustainable Communities Collaborative grant in 2017, the campus outlined local food insecurity as an issue it hoped to address. Most recently, students, faculty and staff banded together to combat food insecurity through the campus’ second annual Fixings for Thanksgiving Club Challenge.
Martin Yeh, assistant professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State Brandywine, is working with faculty from New York University and the University of Colorado to change the way humans understand computer coding.
Small businesses are a huge part of any community — and for the students, faculty and staff at Penn State Brandywine, they have become a source of inspiration and development.
