Thursday, January 26, 2012
Penn State Brandywine women's basketball Head Coach Larry Johnson celebrated his 100th career collegiate win on Friday, Jan. 20 against Penn State Beaver. (more)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Penn State Brandywine is partnering with the Philadelphia Academies Inc. through its Academy of Urban Education program to help high school students from school districts in Philadelphia become teachers. (more)
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
A Pulitzer Prize winning artist and cartoonist, Rube Goldberg was best known for his "invention" cartoons depicting overly complex devices that perform everyday tasks. In the words of Goldberg, his machines were "a symbol of man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results." At Penn State's fifth annual "Rube Goldberg Machine contest", four teams of students presented contraptions that captured the spirit of Goldberg's art. Each machine -- required to dispense an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand in 20 or more steps --was judged by a panel of Penn State engineering alumni on theme, flow, success ratio and creativity. This year's winner -- an Indiana Jones-inspired concept by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) team-- moves on to Purdue University for the national competition. (more)
Monday, March 01, 2010
Indiana Jones found a way to out run his competitors at this year's Penn State Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 27 at the HUB's Alumni Hall. This year's contest challenged teams to build a complex machine that dispensed an appropriate amount of hand sanitizer into a hand. A machine must complete a minimum of 20 steps -- the wackier the better -- in less than two minutes. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) team and their Indiana Jones-inspired machine took first place at the competition. (more)
Friday, October 02, 2009
Penn State alumnus Aldo Magazzeni has spent years traveling to Afghanistan to rebuild the country by providing clean water. After meeting with a class of undergraduate students at Penn State Brandywine last spring, they, too, wanted to help. (more)
Thursday, September 03, 2009
When it comes to outreach and service learning, Penn State Brandywine is proud to be a campus that values and supports those initiatives. Now, with the arrival of Amanda Moser, the campus will have a full-time staff person dedicated to coordinating and strengthening existing programs, as well as launching new ones. (more)
Friday, August 28, 2009
Sophomore Matt Bachman, a civil engineering major at Penn State Brandywine, found he has a talent he never imagined: writing. How did he find out? Associate Professor of Linguistics and English Myra Goldschmidt sent Bachman an e-mail announcing he was published in University Park's annual journal, "Best of Freshman Writing, Volume 14." (more)
Thursday, August 06, 2009
The transition from high school to college can be tough, but what about the jump from a good job in the "real world" to college life as an adult in need of more credits? These days, career-changers and those who want to move up in their line of work are asking that same question. Brian Fletcher, a 2002 Penn State graduate, took the plunge and found it was worth every challenge. (more)
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Fourteen middle school and high school teachers, three graduate students and four undergraduate students are currently working hard at Penn State Brandywine on a graduate workshop/course utilizing inquiry-based pedagogies for teaching students about the Earth as a system. The project began Aug. 3 and will conclude on Aug. 11. (more)
Monday, July 13, 2009
The Studio47West International Charm Jewelry Design Show and Exhibition has been added to the already-packed lineup at the Grill and Chill festival on Thursday, July 16, at Penn State Brandywine. The exhibition and sale, which runs from 4 to 9 p.m. in the Tomezsko Building Lounge, features the one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted jewelry of Penn State Schreyer Honors scholar Lindley Jones. Both events are free and open to the public. (more)
