Laura Guertin, associate professor of earth and mineral sciences at Penn State Brandywine, received a congressional citation from Delaware County U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, April 28, on campus. Guertin received the award for all of the community service activities she has initiated and organized at Penn State Brandywine, including those for the 40 Acts of Kindness and Civic Engagement campaign this year as part of the campus' 40th anniversary celebration.
Campus Chancellor Sophia Wisniewska said the honor was well deserved. "I am delighted and proud that Dr.
In keeping with the "40th" theme throughout the past year, Penn State Brandywine raised more than $40,000 for student scholarships at its 40th Anniversary Gala May 10.
Adam J. Sorkin, distinguished professor of English at Penn State Brandywine, recently published a new book of translated poetry by one of Romania's most prominent younger poets.
Sorkin, of Havertown, collaborated primarily with the author, Ruxandra Cesereanu, to translate the poems found in Crusader-Woman, published by Black Widow Press, Boston. Cesereanu is the author of nine books of poetry, five books of fiction, and significant essays on the Romanian political prisons and political torture in the twentieth century.
Did you know that Philadelphia has one of the highest child poverty rates in our nation? Local food pantries help to alleviate child poverty and hunger, but donations often suffer in the summertime as people are more likely to donate during the cold winter months. This summer has been especially tough since federal funding for food pantries has been cut, and the failing economy has slowed individual donations even more than usual.
One of Penn State Brandywine's own faculty members, Dr.
A member of Penn State University's department of geosciences at University Park will install an earthquake monitoring station on the Penn State Brandywine campus in the next few weeks. The station will be part of a new seismic network being established for the state of Pennsylvania and will be connected to the national network.
In the wake of the earthquake in New Jersey early Monday, this new technology could prove to be a valuable educational and outreach tool for students and the local community. Dr.
Penn State Brandywine has received a one-year grant of $39,000 to benefit student scholarships from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, West Conshohocken.
Penn State Brandywine students Christopher Bakey, engineering, and JacQuita Lessane', HDFS, have been chosen to receive the AmeriCorps Education Award and a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for their unwavering dedication to volunteerism. As campus representatives to Scholars in Service to Pennsylvania, AmeriCorps' Education Award program, for the last year, they were each required to volunteer 450 hours throughout the academic year.
A class trip to the Smithsonian Institution was all they needed to get their creative minds working overtime. Penn State Brandywine junior Teron Meyers, of Upper Darby, and Alyce DiLauro, of Drexel Hill, who transferred to University Park this fall to complete her major, took one look at the dinosaur exhibit and the next thing they knew they had created a podcast and a video featured on YouTube and iTunes.