Penn State Brandywine had the honor of hosting this year's Delaware Valley Association of Collegiate Registrars and Officers of Admission (DVACROA) conference on Thursday, March 10. Representatives from approximately 50 other institutions in the region joined together to participate in this third annual conference.
Students and staff from the Brandywine campus showed their Penn State spirit with an enthusiastic turnout at this year's 46-hour Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON), held February 18-20 at the Bryce Jordan Center at University Park. More than two dozen students attended the event. Chancellor Sophia Wisniewska was also part of the contingent, clad in the same bright green t-shirt worn by everyone in the group.
Freshmen Alexis Cicala and Amanda Rasley represented the campus as two of the more than 700 dancers on the floor.Â
Two Penn State Brandywine faculty members shared their expertise on language and culture in a new book published by the University of Michigan Press. Myra M. Goldschmidt, associate professor of English, and Debbie Lamb Ousey, instructor of English as a Second Language (ESL), are the authors of Teaching Developmental Immigrant Students in Undergraduate Programs: A Practical Guide.
Adam J. Sorkin, Distinguished Professor of English at Penn State Brandywine, recently published an English translation of No Way Out of Hadesburg and Other Poems by Ioan Es. Pop. The book was published by the University of Plymouth Press in England in late 2010.
A multi-award winning, critically acclaimed author, Pop created this book of poetry inspired by his hardships and experiences as a teacher in an isolated village in northern Romania and later as a laborer in Bucharest in communist Romania in the 1980s.
Diane M. Disney, professor of management at Penn State Brandywine, has been elected vice chair of the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Chartered by Congress as an independent, non-partisan organization, the National Academy works to improve the quality, performance and accountability of federal, state and local government.
Penn State Brandywine is pleased to announce a $4,500 grant from Verizon's 'Check Into Literacy' initiative for its Literary Launch program. Students in the Schreyer Honors College at the campus initiated and designed the program.
The grant from Verizon will assist honors scholars with the purchase of research literacy books. The students will engage in discussions about the books' social and cultural issues and interact on the Literary Launch blog.
Eagles Mere, Pa. sets the scene of a new, spine-tingling murder mystery novel by Priscilla F. Clement, of Wallingford, professor emerita of history and women's studies at Penn State Brandywine.
Blood on the Path, published by Eagles Mere Museum, is the gripping tale of the 1959 unsolved disappearance of a teenage girl, that is, until her niece sets her sights on the truth years later.
Penn State Brandywine got a running start this fall as it tee'd off with two new varsity sports: cross country and golf.
The theme of the campus' running program is to develop a lifelong understanding of the sport through play, education, work, development, relaxation, recovery and fun. And to accomplish this, the campus hired Kevin Kelly to lead the team as head coach.
Kelly began his coaching career in 1973 and has coached cross country and track and field at the high school level for more than 30 years.
Professor Laura Guertin and Penn State Brandywine honors students took a trip in April to Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia to discover truths about illnesses during the Civil War era.