At the 2019 College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals (CUPRAP) Awards Ceremony, the Penn State Berks Office of Strategic Communications was presented with a Silver CUPPIE Award in the Poster category for their Macbeth Theatre poster.

A team of Penn State Berks faculty members received VentureWell’s Faculty Grant in the amount of $14,394 for the project titled “Cross Pollination of STEM Courses to Sustain Entrepreneur teams’ Disruptive-technology Solutions (STEM Seeds).”

The Penn State Berks Human Movement and Research Center will host the college’s third annual National Biomechanics Day from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10. This year, approximately 250 high school students are registered for the program.

Berks students, community members, and Olivet Boys & Girls children will gather in Northwest Reading to clean up Baer Park and a section of the Schuylkill River Trail, from the River Road trail head to the Buttonwood Street Bridge, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17.

A new monthly program at Penn State Berks titled “Berks Community Connections” is opening the door to various cultures around the world. For the April program, Pauline Milwood will give a presentation about Jamaica with assistance from Sharon Pitterson-Ogaldez.

In an effort to highlight the Penn State Values among the student population, the Penn State Berks Diversity Committee held its first Penn State Values Poetry Writing Contest for students in the spring 2019 semester.

The Penn State Berks Theatre Department will present "An Enemy of the People,” written by Henrik Ibsen, Wednesday through Saturday, April 10-13, at 8 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.

It wasn’t until Masen Suhadolnik became a senior in the electro-mechanical engineering technology degree program at Penn State Berks that he discovered a way to combine his love of weight lifting, his knowledge of engineering, and his desire to help others.

Berks Startup Week features entrepreneurial workshops; networking events; a student pitch competition on WPSU’s “The Investment”; and presentations from startup founders and corporate innovators, including many Penn State alumni.

The eighth annual Losoncy Lecture in Physics and Astronomy will be presented by Robert Forrey, distinguished professor of physics at Penn State Berks. Forrey will present “Short Stories in Theoretical Physics Research,” which will cover topics from the 2019 prize he received from the American Physical Society. The lecture will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.