Penn State’s Campus Arts Initiative will unveil Lauren Herzak-Bauman’s site-specific artwork, “Colorwalk,” at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, at Penn State Behrend. A meet-the-artist event will be held at the “Colorwalk” site, outside the Reed Union Building.
Dr. Priscilla Hamilton, a 1978 graduate of Penn State and a member of the board of directors of Penn State Behrend’s Council of Fellows, is being honored as one of 16 Penn State Alumni Fellows for 2019.
Charles Stanish, a 1979 anthropology alumnus, and his wife have created an endowment to encourage faculty members to include students on research projects outside of North America.
As part of Penn State’s Campus Arts Initiative project, Cleveland-based sculptor Lauren Herzak-Bauman has been using Penn State Behrend's plastics processing lab to create, mold and fabricate the materials needed for “Color Walk,” the site-specific art project to be installed on the college in November.
Patricia Yahn traveled the world, carrying her sketch pad and camera onto the Concord, the Queen Mary and the Orient Express. Yahn, who died Aug. 28, also was a mentor to young artists at Penn State Behrend, which staged a retrospective of her work in 2017.
Greg Yahn, a member of Penn State Behrend's Council of Fellows, sits with his mother, Patricia Yahn, at the college's Glenhill Society dinner. Patricia Yahn died Aug. 28 at age 91.
Penn State Behrend will serve as the academic research and commercialization partner for the new Magee-Womens Research Institute in Erie, a $26 million initiative that will bring locally-focused clinical medical research to the region.
Sally Nelson Metzgar, a longtime supporter of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and its students, died July 19, at the age of 83. The Metzgar Center at Penn State Behrend is named for Sally Metzgar and her husband, Bob Metzgar.
