To honor and recognize the significant contributions David '74 H&HD and Marjorie Rosenberg have made to expand civic engagement efforts at Penn State Brandywine, the campus will designate one course each semester (fall and spring) as the Rosenberg Civic Engagement Course.
The course will go above and beyond a standard campus civic engagement offering and will be designed to challenge students to the highest levels, aligning with the Laboratory for Civic Engagement's mission of citizenship, scholarship and leadership.
Penn State Brandywine junior Zanya Stephenson, of Darby, was named a 2012 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact, a coalition of college and university presidents committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education. Stephenson, a Cooper Honors scholar at the Brandywine campus, is one of only 162 college student leaders in the 2012 class of Newman Civic Fellows.
Penn State Brandywine will host its annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research Enterprise and Creative Accomplishment (EURECA) on Tuesday, April 17 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Tomezsko Classroom Building Lounge. At the event, students will present their undergraduate work to their peers and the Penn State community, as well as the public.
Cara Colantuono, a 2007 graduate of Penn State Brandywine, has transformed her passion for service into a non-profit organization aimed at helping veterans. Colantuono, of South Philadelphia, is the chairman and founder of Support Homeless Veterans (SHV). Created in 2011, SHV seeks to create permanent housing for chronically homeless veterans.
Senior Vick Arslanian immigrated from Achrafieh in Beirut, Lebanon to the United States in the summer of 2002. Having learned to read and write English at an early age, one would think the move was fairly easy. It wasn't. Arslanian remembers how difficult it was to adjust to his new life.
"When I first started school here I had to adjust to the way of life and learn a whole new set of rules to engage with classmates. I met people from different dialects and backgrounds who shared minimal to no common interests with me."
Not many people can say they spoke with the President of the United States, but three Brandywine students had the ear of President Barack Obama by telephone in no less than the office of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs hosted a call with President Obama on Monday, May 7, to discuss the fight to keep federally subsidized student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1.
The unthinkable happened in 2006 when Kathy and Pat Meehan's son, Shawn, died at the age of 24 after a yearlong battle with leukemia.
Shattered by their loss, they were embraced by family and friends, including Kathy Meehan's colleagues at Penn State Brandywine, where she is senior instructor in human development and family studies (HDFS). "The campus community came together for us in an amazing way," she remembered.
Penn State Brandywine has a lot to celebrate, as several of its outstanding community members--junior Bobbi Caprice, retired Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Dan Doran and Tennis Coach Lloyd Vernon--were honored with prestigious awards by the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) at its annual Awards Luncheon May 21.
The campus' athletics program, as well, was recognized.
It's no secret that Pennsylvania public schools are struggling, and that their art programs are suffering greatly. This year, Penn State Brandywine has teamed up with Philadelphia-based nonprofit Fresh Artists to collect art supplies for under-resourced public schools.
Thanks to a new linkage agreement between Penn State Brandywine and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), up to five graduates of Brandywine's Accelerated Undergraduate Postbaccalaureate Medical Sciences Certificate (Postbacc) program will continue their medical studies at PCOM each year. Qualified students will complete the Postbacc program in December, and be eligible to begin their osteopathic medicine studies the following August.