As part of its sustainability initiatives, the Penn State Berks Sustainability Team along with the local Kittatinny Sierra Club will host a public viewing of the film Merchants of Doubt on Thursday, December 3, 2015, at 6 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. The film will be followed by a panel discussion composed of Penn State Berks faculty and students, as well as members of Kittatinny Sierra Club and the Nolde Environmental Education Center. This event is free and open to the public.

The Penn State Berks Theatre Department will present the second annual Fall Festival of Plays, a showcase of student written and produced plays, on Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.

CHANGE OF LOCATION With race relations in the United State reaching a boiling point after incidents in Ferguson, Missouri; Baltimore; and other cities, Asali Solomon's presentation, Children of the Revolution that Never Was: Black and Disgruntled in America, comes at a poignant time in our nation. It will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center multi-purpose room, Penn State Berks.

While a student at Penn State Berks, Joseph Sinclair had his first encounter with a 3-D printer in the college's Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development Center. It sparked an interest but it wasn't until he attended a career fair and had only limited success that he decided to take matters into his own hands by taking that interest to the next level and starting his own company.

Penn State Berks Biochemistry and Molecular and Biology major Margaret "Maggie" Neiman completed a National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experience for Undergraduates (iREU) at the University of Graz, Austria in August 2015. Offered through Syracuse University, this competitive summer research program is for students who have a serious interest in chemistry and prior research experience.

Traveling to Comic Con as part of a course sounds like a dream come true, but it was reality for students enrolled in the "Research in Comic Book Culture and Community" course, part of the Communication Arts and Sciences baccalaureate degree program at Penn State Berks. A group of twelve students and two faculty chaperones traveled to New York Comic Con to experience comic book culture and popular arts, and to conduct research from October 9-11, 2015.

Penn State Berks and Penn State Health St. Joseph are joining forces for a worthwhile cause. Students enrolled in the Penn State Berks Theatre baccalaureate degree program will "break a leg" during the Penn State Health St. Joseph Masquerade Gala on Saturday, November 14, 2015. The student thespians are volunteering their time and talent during the fundraising gala, which will be held at the Crowne Plaza Reading.

It all began when Kyle Moyer, Anthony Rothenberger, and Jason King, Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology majors who graduated in December 2014, were enrolled in the same course, Electromechanical Design Project Preparation and Electromechanical Design Project. They were tasked with designing and building a project, so they worked as a team to build a drone.

During the fall of 2009, while designing clothing in Rome as part of a fashion study-abroad program, Camrin Edwards had an epiphany. "I was going to school for fashion design," said Edwards. "My dream was to design wedding gowns." Suddenly, she realized that all she wanted to do was "get back to working directly with brides." "I knew I wanted to work directly with brides instead of sitting at a desk designing clothes," she said.

The Penn State Berks women's soccer team won its third straight North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Championship after defeating Penn State Abington, 3-0, to earn another trip to the NCAA Regional Tournament. The Nittany Lions (16-2-2) tallied the first goal of the game early in the first half and took some momentum into the intermission with a score in the 42nd minute of the opening period. Berks then built a comfortable lead with 6:17 into the second half and were able to drop back and play defensive.