Terry Hafer, a sophomore Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major at Penn State Berks, was recently accepted into the 2014 summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at the Wadsworth Center. This National Science Foundation-sponsored REU Site program will run from June 9-August 14, 2014.

The Students for Sensible Drug Policy Club is hosting an event about opiate addiction on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in the Perkins Student Center Lion's Den. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., followed by the lecture and discussion at 6:00 p.m.

Penn State Berks will hold a Cyber Security Discovery Day for Reading School District middle students in the Penn State Educational Partnership Program (PEPP) on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Michael Hoehl, Chief Information Security Officer of Godiva Chocolatier, will be the guest speaker.

Dan Banks, a senior Penn State Chemistry major who began his studies at Berks, has received a research assistantship for Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Ph.D. program in chemistry. While a student at Penn State Berks, Banks began conducting research with Dr. Leonard Gamberg, Associate Professor of Physics, in his freshman year, and continued after transferring to University Park campus. He wrote his honors thesis with Gamberg, titled "Studying the Partonic Structure of the Nucleon by Means of the Beam Spin Asymmetry."

The Penn State Berks Chamber Choir will perform on Saturday, April 26, 2014, at 4 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.

Penn State Berks will host its sixteenth annual Careers with Math Options Conference on Friday, May 16, 2014, for female middle school students from Berks County and surrounding school districts. The conference will feature speakers from Penn State Berks and the community. A wide variety of engaging and interactive workshops will be provided to encourage the young women to continue their studies in math, science, engineering, technology, finance, and related fields.

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Students, faculty, and staff at Penn State Berks are showing just how happy they are through a new online video set to Pharrell Williams' "Happy" soundtrack. The video project was a joint effort between Dr. Michele Ramsey, Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Women's Studies, Berks alumnus Connor Hough, and Penn State Berks senior Tom Smith, both Communication Arts and Sciences majors.

Penn State Berks students will "camp out for hunger" on Friday, April 25, 2014, beginning at 9 p.m. in the Perkins Plaza. The Penn State Berks Office of Campus Life will host the college's fifth annual Camp Out for Hunger event. This event is for students only; it is not open to the public.

Penn State Berks students in Dr. Mahsa Kazempour's sections of BiSC3: Environmental Science course are planning an Earth Day (April 23, 2014) celebration and invite the entire campus community to join them in these or similar efforts.