This year has been declared the Year of the Girl and Penn State Brandywine is joining the celebration. The campus' Laboratory for Civic Engagement is hosting a Girl Scouts of America Time Capsule Project in honor of the organization's 100-year anniversary. The capsule creation will take place in March, to coincide with the campus' Women's History Month celebrations. (more)
Penn State Brandywine will host its annual Spring Soiree to bring together alumni, friends and community members for a night of dinner and dancing to raise money for student scholarships on Friday, March 23, at the Merion Cricket Club. (more)
Penn State Brandywine recently established the Laboratory for Civic Engagement to encourage leadership among students and develop scholarship in the community while promoting citizenship on a local-to-global level. This initiative will allow students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to work together to achieve these goals. (more)
Sophomore Rasheed Wilkins is on his way to becoming a Penn State Brandywine legend. As of Thursday, Feb. 9, the men's basketball team guard is just 38 points shy of his 1,000th point, a feat Sports Information Coordinator Melissa Algeo said is achieved only rarely by players within four years, let alone just two. (more)
Penn State Brandywine Global Programs is hosting a multi-destination experience for students who wish to study in Vienna, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic, from May 5 through 12. (more)
Since 2003, Penn State Brandywine Student Affairs Specialist Diane Shorter and Associate Professor of Earth Sciences Laura Guertin have led an initiative to create handmade items for nonprofit organizations with an identified need. Again this year, campus and community members came together with knitting needles and crochet hooks to make scarves for Pennsylvania athletes competing in the 2012 Special Olympics USA. (more)
Students, alumni, community members, faculty and staff came together throughout the Philadelphia region to remember Coach Joe Paterno on Thursday, Jan. 26 as the three area Penn State campuses each live-streamed the two-and-half hour tribute, "A Memorial for Joe," that took place on the University Park campus. (more)
Penn State Brandywine will host its fourth annual "A Night with the Pride" Beef 'n' Beverage event to bring together friends of Penn State and raise money for student scholarships at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 24 at the Ballrooms at Boothwyn. (more)
The Penn State Brandywine women's basketball team will host Penn State Fayette at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11, in a game benefiting the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Pink Zone. (more)
Penn State Brandywine will celebrate and appreciate the artwork created by students last semester during a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 19, in the John D. Vairo Library, room 112. (more)