• Your Future Starts With a Visit. Come See Penn State Brandywine This Summer

    Your Future Starts With a Visit. Come See Penn State Brandywine This Summer

    There is something that no brochure, website, or virtual tour can fully capture: the feeling of walking onto a college campus and knowing you could be part of the scene. This summer, Penn State Brandywine is inviting high school students, transfer students, adult learners, veterans, and their families to come experience that feeling firsthand —…

  • Dining Under the Stars in Media: Ten Unforgettable Restaurants to Try on State Street

    Dining Under the Stars in Media: Ten Unforgettable Restaurants to Try on State Street

    For five months a year, Wednesday night in Media doesn’t look like a Wednesday night anywhere else.   The cars disappear, the tables come out, and State Street becomes one long open-air dining room under the early-evening light.  Now in its 19th season, Dining Under the Stars kicked off in early May and runs every Wednesday through September 30, from around 5…

  • Girls Spark Hosts Designer Bag Bingo Fundraiser to Support Teen Empowerment Programs

    Girls Spark Hosts Designer Bag Bingo Fundraiser to Support Teen Empowerment Programs

    Girls Spark is bringing Designer Bag Bingo to Media on June 11, and the stakes are high in the best possible way. The nonprofit invites the community to its annual fundraiser at the Media Community Center, where supporters, local leaders, and sponsors will gather for 10 rounds of bingo with designer handbags on the line.…

  • Penn State Engineering Student Selected for Competitive Summer Research Program

    Penn State Engineering Student Selected for Competitive Summer Research Program

    Meera Ramasamy, a second-year engineering student at Penn State Brandywine in Media, has been selected to participate in Penn State’s highly competitive Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates (MC REU) Summer Program. The MC REU is an intensive eight-week summer research program that provides a select group of College of Engineering students the opportunity to conduct…

  • Middle Schoolers Learn Physics and More at Penn State Brandywine LaunchBox STEAM Day

    Middle Schoolers Learn Physics and More at Penn State Brandywine LaunchBox STEAM Day

    Nearly 80 middle school students discovered on a recent Wednesday in May that the distance between the classroom and a launchpad is shorter than they thought. The Brandywine LaunchBox hosted its annual Youth Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) and Startup Day on May 14 at Penn State Brandywine in Media. The event drew…

  • Penn State Brandywine Softball Wins Back-to-Back United East Championships

    Penn State Brandywine Softball Wins Back-to-Back United East Championships

    The Penn State Brandywine Lions softball team has followed up its  historic 2025 title, capturing a second consecutive United East Conference championship in 2026. Brandywine won its first-ever United East softball championship in 2025, beating Penn College 8-7 in a comeback victory. Because Brandywine still had provisional NCAA Division III status during its first title…

  • Penn State Brandywine Honors 100+ Student-Athletes at 2025-26 NCAA Division III Awards Banquet

    Penn State Brandywine Honors 100+ Student-Athletes at 2025-26 NCAA Division III Awards Banquet

    Penn State Brandywine Athletics held its annual awards banquet on May 19 in the Student Union, writes Christina Billie for Penn State Brandywine. The 2025-26 academic year marked Brandywine’s second year of provisional membership in NCAA Division III and the United East Conference. “What a year it’s been — a truly historic one! As we…

  • Penn State Brandywine Instructor Lusine Mueller Wins  Research Award on Jazz Age Author Michael Arlen

    Penn State Brandywine Instructor Lusine Mueller Wins Research Award on Jazz Age Author Michael Arlen

    A Penn State Brandywine English instructor has earned international recognition for her article on Michael Arlen, a highly influential Jazz Age literary figure, writes Christina Billie for Penn State Brandywine. Lusine Mueller, a part-time instructor of English at Penn State Brandywine, has been awarded the First-Degree Laureate Award from the All-Russian Society of Scientific Researchers…

  • 142 Penn State Brandywine Graduates Celebrated at Spring 2026 Commencement in Media

    142 Penn State Brandywine Graduates Celebrated at Spring 2026 Commencement in Media

    Bachelor’s degrees went out to 142 students at Penn State Brandywine’s spring 2026 commencement ceremony, with five other students earning associate degrees, writes Bill Tyson for Penn State Brandywine. Regional Chancellor Marilyn J. Wells presided over the ceremony, telling graduates they had grown into changemakers prepared to make their mark on the world. “Today is…

  • Penn State Brandywine Students Build Robot Stealth Game for Capstone Project

    Penn State Brandywine Students Build Robot Stealth Game for Capstone Project

    This semester, five Penn State Brandywine students collaborated on a unique capstone project for their CMPSC 483W: Software Design Methods class. In this course, students apply scientific knowledge and methods to design and construct software, writes Natalie Di Mario for Penn State Brandywine. When Hunter Becker, Ryan Culbertson, Mohammad Hoque, Remington Navarro, and Ian Demartinis…

  • Freeze Hits Farms, Destroys Most of Linvilla’s Peaches, Apples

    Freeze Hits Farms, Destroys Most of Linvilla’s Peaches, Apples

    A heat wave followed by late-season sub-freezing temperatures has taken out most of Linvilla Orchards’ peaches and apples, writes Denali Sagner for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Media-area farm said it suffered “tremendous damage.” Linvilla Orchards farm manager Norm Schultz said he’s never seen anything like it. “We had never been so far along on the…

  • Penn State Brandywine Highlights Work of Sustainability Commission

    Penn State Brandywine Highlights Work of Sustainability Commission

    It’s the fifth anniversary of the Chancellor’s Commission on Sustainability at Penn State Brandywine. The Commission has brought sustainability into the campus landscape, operations, classrooms, and faculty and student research, writes Christina Billie for Penn State Brandywine. Launched in 2020 under the leadership of Regional Chancellor Marilyn J. Wells, the commission was established to recommend,…

  • Eight Delaware County Community College Students Named to 2026 All-Pennsylvania Academic Team

    Eight Delaware County Community College Students Named to 2026 All-Pennsylvania Academic Team

    April is Community College Month, and eight Delaware County Community College students were recognized as part of the 2026 All-Pennsylvania Academic Team for their academic achievement, leadership, and community service. Kimberly Briggs of Palmyra, Marjorie Charles-Dasne of Lansdowne, Colin Evans of Toughkenamon, Diego Garcia-Cintora of Kennett Square, Gillian Keener of Aston, Lydia Kirkpatrick of Folsom, Natalia Rodriguez-Lopez of West Chester, and Meredith Stefanelli of…

  • Delaware County Community College and Moore College of Art & Design Sign Transfer Agreement

    Delaware County Community College and Moore College of Art & Design Sign Transfer Agreement

    Delaware County Community College and Moore College of Art & Design have signed a new articulation agreement that will allow DCCC students to transfer seamlessly to Moore to complete their bachelor’s degrees. Under the agreement, students who earn an Associate in Fine Arts (AFA) degree in Art–Studio at DCCC will be eligible to transfer into…

  • DCCC Theatre Presents ‘Avenue Q’ Apr. 15-18

    DCCC Theatre Presents ‘Avenue Q’ Apr. 15-18

    DCCC brings the Tony Award-winning, laugh-out-loud musical, Avenue Q, to the stage Apr. 15-18 at 7:00 PM in the Large Auditorium of the Academic Building on the College’s Marple Campus (901 South Media Line Road, Media). The musical tells the timeless story of a recent college graduate named Princeton who moves into a shabby New…

  • Brandywine Students Serve Communities on Alternative Spring Break Trip

    Brandywine Students Serve Communities on Alternative Spring Break Trip

    Eight Penn State Brandywine students traveled to Mechanicsville, Virginia, during spring break to participate in an Alternative Spring Break program, building affordable housing for families in the community in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. The trip marked the first Alternative Spring Break trip for the campus since 2016, reviving a tradition of service-focused travel for…

  • DCCC Student Gillian Keener Named 2026 Guistwhite Scholar, Receives $5,000 Scholarship

    DCCC Student Gillian Keener Named 2026 Guistwhite Scholar, Receives $5,000 Scholarship

    Gillian Keener of Aston, a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year college students, has been named a 2026 Guistwhite Scholar. She will receive a $5,000 scholarship to complete her baccalaureate studies. Winners were chosen from among 3,000 applicants nationwide, and their selection was based on academic excellence, leadership accomplishments, and…

  • DCCC Offers ‘Veteran Authors and Memoir Keepers’ Event on Mar. 28

    DCCC Offers ‘Veteran Authors and Memoir Keepers’ Event on Mar. 28

    Members of the Delaware County veterans’ community will share their stories of motivation to serve — and the resilience to survive and thrive post-service — on Saturday, Mar. 28, from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM at Delaware County Community College’s Marple Campus (901 S. Media Line Road, Media). The event will take place in the Academic Building…