Penn State Berks celebrated the 23nd anniversary of its Careers with Math Options Conference on May 9. A record total of 188 seventh grade students and 24 chaperones from 13 schools around the Berks County area attended the day-long event. The mission of the event is to generate excitement for STEM topics early in young female students’ education.

Two Penn State Berks students will spend this summer engaged in their respective funded research opportunities. Sophomore Daniel Abramov and senior Sydney Bankert received the Erickson Discovery Grant; they are two of 50 who received the grant.

How do you instill an appreciation of biodiversity and a desire to preserve ecosystems in the community? A team of Penn State Berks and Lehigh Valley professors tackled this very question through a multidisciplinary research project that involved participants in a meaningful community activity, linking science and the arts.  

Penn State Berks has named nearly 700 students to the spring 2023 dean’s list. To earn a dean’s list designation, students must end the semester with a 3.5 grade-point average or higher.  

Students attending Penn State Berks summer camps will learn about various career fields, the world around them and themselves. The camps, which last three to four days in June and July, are for students entering fifth through eighth grades and ninth through twelfth grades in fall 2023. All of the camps run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

Rising high school seniors and their families are invited to attend the Penn State Berks Spend a Summer Evening information session from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, July 12, or the Summer Evening Tours from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25. 

Students who will be high school seniors in the fall and their families are invited to attend the Penn State Berks Spend a Summer Morning information program from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Aug. 5. 

Adam Plucinski, assistant teaching professor of engineering at Penn State Altoona, and Lolita Paff, associate professor of business economics at Penn State Berks, are the 2022-23 recipients of the Jack P. Royer Active and Collaborative Learning Award from the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses. The award recognizes Commonwealth Campus faculty and staff who demonstrate innovative teaching practices to enhance student learning and who facilitate student engagement in learning to advance conceptual and applied understanding and competencies.

First-year engineering students at Penn State Berks put their problem-solving skills to the test when they were tasked with designing and constructing escape room puzzles for their engineering design introductory course.

Penn State Berks recently established the Office of Community Engagement, with the mission to build relevant and meaningful relationships within the community and to connect to the community through service opportunities.