Penn State Behrend's STEAM fair is the college's largest single-day outreach event. More than 1,500 people attended this year's program, which was free and open to the public.
Michael Weismiller, a triple Penn State alumnus who earned doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering, has been awarded the 2020 Outstanding Early Career Award from the Penn State Mechanical Engineering Alumni Society.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team defeated Medaille and Penn State Altoona in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference matchups. The team carries a 13-5 conference record into its final home game of the regular season. Behrend’s volleyball, tennis, bowling, wrestling, and track and field teams also were in action last week. Here are the highlights.
On-campus and online events this spring will offer prospective graduate students information about Penn State Behrend's five master's degree programs. Sessions will be offered in Erie and at the Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry Township.
Penn State Behrend will have five dancers — the most ever for the college — at this year's THON. The team hopes to surpass its record fundraising effort from 2019, when they raised more than $57,000.
Three community leaders will discuss how best to balance inequalities while building a sustainable city when the Penn State Behrend Sustainability Series hosts "A Community Discussion on Economic Inequality" on Feb. 20.
Penn State Behrend’s wrestling team avenged a one-point loss to Pitt-Bradford, winning the rematch 32-23. The Feb. 5 dual meet was the final varsity event in Behrend’s Erie Hall, which will be replaced by a larger fitness and recreation center later this year.
The School of Science at Penn State Behrend will celebrate the life and work of Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution through natural selection became the foundation of modern biological science, with a free program on Wednesday, Feb. 12.
"We are giving a generation of students absolutely awful advice," author Greg Lukianoff said during a Feb. 4 Speaker Series talk at Penn State Behrend. “When we say, ‘Your feelings are always right,’ or, ‘If something makes you uncomfortable, then it must be wrong,’ we are telling students that they are more fragile, and less independent, than they actually are."
