Penn State Berks wrapped up its celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month on Oct. 11 with its 12th annual Latino Forum, an outreach effort for local high school students. Chancellor Radha Pyati provided a warm welcome to the students in Spanish, and she reached out to both students and the greater Latino community through a Facebook Live interview on La Mega Radio Station, a Spanish-language station who was on site for the event. Pyati was also interviewed live on La Mega’s Morning Show on Oct. 8.

Penn State Berks is holding a free public event, the “Eras Tour (Penn State Berks Version)” on Saturday, Nov. 2, in the Perkins Plaza. The event is held in junction with the course “Taylor Swift, Gender, and Communication,” offered this fall. Admission is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. 

Current charging stations for electric vehicles, or EVs, can be expensive to install, and limited in the number of parking spaces they reach. Penn State engineering student Jonathan Smith and his team have spent the last three years creating a possible solution: smaller, mounted charging stations, which can move to cover as many as five parking spaces. As CEO of Streamline Charging, he’s used his Penn State education and customized coursework to get the team’s ideas to market. 

Penn State Berks took learning out of the classroom in early October when 14 students, faculty and staff visited "Field of Screams," a haunted Halloween attraction in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The event was organized as an experiential learning activity for humanities, arts and social sciences courses (such as "Rhetoric of American Horror Films" and "Transformative Texts") that deal with topics related to horror and monstrosity within popular cultural texts. 

The Berks LaunchBox in partnership with Penn State Berks will host its free 3D Modeling and Printing Workshop for Manufacturing Companies from 3 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Berks LaunchBox recently announced seven recipients of the second round of the “IMAGINE Your Business” grants.

Penn State Berks will welcome Piscataway Nation singers and dancers to honor and celebrate Indigenous and Native American Heritage Month. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on Monday, Nov. 4, at 12:15 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.

Prospective students and their families are invited to tour Penn State Berks at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, with Lion Ambassador student tour guides.

How do you translate what you learned in a semester-long course to a community celebration for an audience ranging in age from kindergarteners to senior citizens? That was the challenge to Penn State Berks students in the “Taylor Swift, Gender and Communication” course, and they rose to the occasion.

The Transform outreach team in Durres witnesses God's light over the city.

Aussie teens make a life-changing visit.

Although poverty has forced many villagers to the city or even abroad, co-leaders Besmir, Aniger and Hope are bringing hope to the youth in Albanian villages.

Rebekka explains to her friend, Ana how she can be one with Jesus too. Ana and her father come to know the living God and experience His care...

Erna from Paraguay is a long-term OMer serving in Albania, who celebrated ten years there in Autumn 2010. In an interview she describes her various roles serving in a local church, and amongst women, who face many disadvantages in Albanian society. Erna also recalls how God called her to Albania, and reflects on being a Latin American serving God in Europe.

A rare treat for Roma women.

God heals a patient's infected surgical wound at the Këneta Clinic in Durrës.

In partnership with the Hope Centre in Durrës, food and supplies were handed out to widows, divorced women and poor families on Women's Day.

Since the rebirth of the OM Poliçan team in September 2010, much has been happening in and through Nicole, Liliana, Helio and Lynnette in this small, rural town in Albania.

The OM Albania team based in Poliçan come from a variety of racial and national backgrounds. Here they discuss how this affects their local community.

Liria, whose name means freedom, accepts Christ and finds true freedom after learning about sin and forgiveness.

A mother who cannot feed her children plans to commit suicide, but God leads OM Albania’s Gramsh team to bring food just in time.

A short-term team from the Netherlands helps the OM Albania team add the finishing touches to their new church building in Poliçan.

OM Albania partners in the Emmanuel Centre ministry to Roma street kids and their mothers during the holiday season.

Whether praying in Cantonese or Albanian, believers are one in heart.

OMers teaching Roma street kids how to read and write reward them for their hard work with a day at the zoo.

After working hard to build relationships with people in the Roma community, OMers and a Transform 2012 team see God soften hearts in Lushnje.

TACO, a creative arts ministry working alongside local church planters, sees a new church emerge in Albania.

Two small churches in a mountain area of Albania are isolated by geography, so meeting together for Christmas lunch was a great encouragement to both.

A Transform 2013 outreach team to Albania runs a sports camp to help a local church connect with youth.

A Muslim-background Albanian believer discovers a bigger vision after his first experience at the Transform conference.

Tears flowed on parting as Albanian Roma boys experienced genuine relationship during the one-week visit of an OM Transform team to Lushnje, Albania.

After several years of discipleship with an OMer in a little village in Albania, a young believer blossoms in his walk with God.

An Albanian family living in difficulties receives godly help and embarks on a Bible study that brings about positive change in their lives.

OM’s Emmanuel Centre in Albania shines as light for children in the Roma and Gypsy communities.

OM's Business as Mission project in Albania brings hope to a family through a new beekeeping microbusiness venture.

Erna Neufeld teaches sewing skills and shares the Gospel with women in a small Albanian town.

A father gains hope when he is shown the truth about his son's eyesight.

In 1991, after 45 years of Albania being closed to the gospel, an OM team moves into the country and starts one of the first fellowships.

An OMer runs an evangelistic sewing course in Albania; empowering local women by training them to sew while sharing the gospel.

OM Albania is reaching out to children with special needs, visiting their families' homes and helping the different family members in holistic ways.

OMer Lisi has a 'chance meeting' with a special needs Albanian man and his mother in a beautifully God-ordained way.

OM's ministry to a special needs development centre shows Christ's love in action to residents, caretakers and the community.

Against all odds, 19-year-old Melisa from Albania joins Logos Hope.

Anna shares her journey from Germany to Africa and finally to Albania where she uses her professional skills to work with children with disabilities.

Nertila met Jesus when she was a child through an OM outreach. Now 18, she is isolated from education and Christian community.

A team from Penn State Harrisburg spent a week at a NASA facility over the summer, building a scientific experiment and sending it to space through the RockOn! program.

Jennifer C. Gibbs, associate professor of criminal justice in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs, was awarded the 2024 Teaching and Mentorship Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Policing.

Maria Turkson, associate teaching professor of psychology at Penn State Harrisburg, will lead a panel of experts in a discussion about domestic violence prevention on Friday, Oct. 25. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The following is a collection of events happening around Penn State Harrisburg.

Thaddeus Stevens College, a two-year trade and technology-focused college, has recently expanded its articulation agreement with Penn State Harrisburg. Students completing their studies at Thaddeus Stevens College can transfer a variety of general education credits toward receiving a bachelor of science degree in human development and family studies from Penn State Harrisburg.