This painting by Kellie Jircitano, an assistant teaching professor of chemistry at Penn State Behrend, is on display in the Reed Union Building as part of the college's 2021 art show.
Lee Shadeck, counselor at Penn State Behrend, took up painting early in the pandemic. “It’s just so peaceful and calming and therapeutic,” he said. Now, he’s staging an art show, with 30 pieces contributed by Behrend students, faculty and staff.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019. As an adviser to the White House Coronavirus Task Force, he helped shape the federal response to the pandemic – and the precautions that are being taken to manage the next viral outbreak.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, visited Penn State Behrend on Nov. 11 as part of the college's Speaker Series.
“I don’t think there will be a binary point in time when we are ‘finished’ with COVID,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb said during a Nov. 11 Speaker Series program at Penn State Behrend. “We will, over time, learn to manage this virus like the flu. But we’ve paid a high price for that.”
The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team won the Tip-Off Tournament with an 85-65 victory over Grove City. Kara Haslett, a senior from Baden, finished the weekend with 36 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and four steals. She was named Tournament MVP. Other scores and highlights from last week:
Four Penn State Behrend students -- Mackenzie Sloan, Alex Croll, Jake Lehotsky and Deeja Vital -- built a thongophone -- a sort of digital player-piano -- from an assortment of cardboard tubes. The instrument has been installed in Lilley Library.
Four students at Penn State Behrend turned a truckload of cardboard tubes into a thongophone — a custom-built instrument that will look familiar to fans of the Blue Man Group.