On Sunday, Feb. 11, Penn State Berks will celebrate the Lunar New Year with a live performance of the traditional Asian art form of the Lion Dance by the Penn Lions dance troupe in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This free event begins at 2 p.m. and is open to the public.
“In the Aspiring Scholars Program, I became comfortable with myself. I was able to have a fresh start and have people accept me for who I am. It’s why I decided to stay at Berks, and it impacted me so much that I wanted to have the same impact and inspire other foster youth to come to college,” said senior hospitality management major Amy Yu.
Penn State Berks and Reading High School alumni and sisters Cory Varona-Corniel and Nicol Varona Cancelmo, co-founders of OCOA Beauty, will together deliver the commencement address for the Berks campus commencement ceremony on Dec. 16.
The Penn State Berks International Klub will host its first-ever Garba Night from 6 to 10 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27, in the Perkins Student Center Multipurpose Room. The event is free for Penn State Berks faculty, staff and students. Tickets are also available for non-Penn State students.
The Penn State Berks global studies degree program will host a forum with a presentation titled “How Hate Crime Laws Perpetuate Anti-Muslim Racism” on Oct. 25. Evelyn Alsultany, professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California, is the featured speaker for the forum, which is free and open to the public.
Caring for other people has always been second nature for Penn State Berks senior Aidee Santos Acosta. Naturally, it makes sense that she would want to pursue a career in the medical field, and this summer, she got a front-row seat to her future.
As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Penn State Berks will hold its 11th annual Latino Forum from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 13, in the college’s Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This special event is free and open to students from all Berks County high schools, as well as members of the local Hispanic and Latino community.
Eric Alva will tell his story of coming out as a gay man in the armed forces and his advocacy for diversity and inclusion in the workplace during a lecture titled “The End of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11 in the Penn State Berks Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.
