She cut fried foods from her diet. She stepped up her exercise, with special emphasis on leg curls, back extensions and cardio. She stopped drinking caffeine.
She has avoided alcohol as well. A few weeks ago, when she turned 21, she stayed in.
“THON means a lot more to me than any of that,” Koster, a junior from Pittsburgh, said.
Penn State Behrend has been named one of the 10 best branch campuses "with impressive reputations all their own" – a list that also includes satellites of Carnegie Mellon, Tufts and T
“She still has some time left,” said Roz Fornari, head coach of the Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team. “We’ll see at the end of it where she fits into the record books.”
They are expected to get even better. Tau Beta Pi members are required to tutor and do community service, and to be active at both social events and professional seminars.
“We want members of our society to constantly enhance their education beyond the formal classroom,” said Bill Lasher, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering and adviser to the chapter, which was formally installed in late January.
Seventeen students are currently eligible, said Amy Carney,
assistant professor of history and the chapter’s adviser. She plans to
schedule guest speakers and career-development seminars for the
group.
“We’d like our students to learn more about what it means to be a
historian,” she said.
The first chapter of Phi Alpha Theta was formed in Arkansas in 1921.
The society now has more than 350,000 members.
The four games created by students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College, last week were inspired by the sound of a heartbeat – the
assigned theme for this year’s Global Game Jam, an annual hacker
marathon – and by a ticking clock: The teams had just 48 hours to
create, code and upload their games, which anyone can now play.
Penn State Behrend students already have raised $14,000 for this
year’s THON, which begins Feb. 16. To contribute, go to www.thon.org,
click “Donate Now,” and select Behrend as your organization of
choice.
The patient — a young man — is bleeding from his forearm. His pupils are dilated, and his blood pressure is dropping. His student nurse quickly assesses his condition and decides her first priority is to stop the bleeding. She applies pressure to the wound.
With a growth rate of nearly 10 percent annually, sales projected to reach $6.55 billion this year, and an estimated 100,000 jobs, the medical plastics sector in the United States is a flourishing industry.
She was a first-year student then, on spring break, traveling with a group organized by Sharon Dale, associate professor of art history.
She cut fried foods from her diet. She stepped up her exercise, with special emphasis on leg curls, back extensions and cardio. She stopped drinking caffeine.
Penn State Behrend has been named one of the 10 best branch campuses "with impressive reputations all their own" – a list that also includes satellites of Carnegie Mellon, Tufts and T
“She still has some time left,” said Roz Fornari, head coach of the Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team. “We’ll see at the end of it where she fits into the record books.”
