AIChE will hold its annual spring picnic today 12 pm to 2 pm in the lawn on the north side of Fenske. The picnic is sponsored by Merck. Please stop by and grab some food and enjoy the nice weather.

The ChE GSA will co-host a tailgate for Blue and White Weekend on Saturday, April 16. The tailgate will start at 8 am and run until 2 pm, the start of the Blue and White spring football game. It will be held in the Park Ave. IM fields. An exact location will be given on the day of the tailgate. Food and drinks will be provided.

For more information about the tailgate, please see the Facebook event.

Other events being held during Blue and White weekend can be found here.

The ChE GSA will host it’s second departmental happy hour on Thursday, April 21, 5 pm – 7 pm at Primanti Bros. on Heister St. The ChE GSA will pay for appetizers. This is another great opportunity to hang out with other graduate students, faculty, and staff outside the office and lab.

GPSA is a hosting a spring mixer at Cafe 210 7 pm – 9 pm on Wednesday, February 17. All graduate and professional students are invited. The GPSA will have free snacks.

Check out the Facebook event for more details.

Event: 1st Annual Chemical Engineering Department 5K Race
Date: Saturday, April 9
Time: Registration – 8:00 am – 9:30 am; Race Start – 10:00 am
Where: Medlar Field

The ChE department is participating in the April Fools 5K. The interdepartmental race will be a part of a larger 5K race. The ChE department will grant prizes both for overall team win as well as for team participation and individual awards. Faculty, graduate students, and undergrads all have their own teams that will compete for “overall team win”. Scoring will be “cross-country style“.

To register for the race:
1) Fill out this form and give it to Josh Litofsky (jhl182@psu.edu or 201 Fenske)
2) Register here.

Please contact Josh with any other questions.

The ChE GSA hosted a happy hour at Bar Bleu yesterday. More than twenty graduate students, faculty members, and staff attended, socializing over appetizers, paid for by the ChE GSA, and drinks.

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the happy hour. Be on the lookout for another one in February!

The ChE GSA will host a departmental happy hour on January 21, 5 pm – 7 pm at Bar Bleu. Appetizers will be provided for members of the ChE department by the ChE GSA. Come on out and socialize with the department’s grad students, faculty members, and staff.

The ChE GSA and the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) co-hosted a tailgate before the White Out game against Michigan. GPSA provided food and drinks from Panera for breakfast, while the ChE GSA fired up the grill for burgers and buffalo chicken dip. It was a brisk, November morning in State College, but that did not stop us from having a good time with our fellow graduate students.

Thank you to all those who helped set up and came out to the tailgate!

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Members of the ChE GSA attended the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Winter Masquerade Ball on Saturday, November 14 at the Atherton Hotel. The masquerade ball consisted of a dinner buffet, dancing, and a silent auction that benefited the Centre County Women’s Resource Center and Center County PAWS. Many attendees took advantage of the photo booth, giving them mementos of the event.

The ChE GSA will be co-sponsoring a tailgate with the GPSA before the Michigan game, which kicks off at noon. We will in the purple lot behind the scoreboard of the baseball stadium. Follow the Facebook event page for additional information and updates.

We will have food from Panera. Food will be there at 7 am.

Come on out for the last home game of the year!