Penn State Brandywine’s Student Spotlight series highlights the remarkable work being done by students in leadership, academics, service, athletics and more.
Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education.
Penn State Brandywine’s Student Spotlight series highlights the remarkable work being done by students in leadership, academics, service, athletics and more.
Jacob Campbell, a fourth-year student majoring in multidisciplinary studies and minoring in environmental inquiry, honored the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act in his capstone project.
Second-year biomedical engineering major Pratima Oulkar created a prosthetic hand using a 3D printer to present at Brandywine’s Fall 2023 Honors Symposium.
Penn State Brandywine hosted its inaugural "Shades of Success" Black Student Union Alumni Networking Event on Jan. 30 to kick-start celebrations for Black History Month. The event featured six alumni of color as part of Brandywine’s Alumni of Color Network who spoke about their experiences after graduating from Penn State and provided students with college and career advice.
Penn State alumna Nora Margulis, who graduated in 2022, was still taking her courses virtually in spring of 2021, working toward her undergraduate degree in biology at Brandywine when Anna Sigmon, assistant professor of chemistry, offered her the opportunity to collaborate on research that could potentially help society cope with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. She jumped at the chance.
Drew Anderson joined Penn State Brandywine’s Earth sciences department as a part-time lecturer in August. He received his bachelor of science in meteorology from Penn State and immediately jumped into broadcast news, working as a meteorologist at NBC in Lancaster and NBC in Scranton, and he’s currently a meteorologist at FOX 29 in Philadelphia. In 2014, he started teaching at Penn State Abington and a few other local universities as an adjunct professor.
Terrie Wong, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Brandywine, received a National Best (Published) Article Award and an International Top Faculty (Conference) Paper Award in 2023.
