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The Penn State Behrend campus was designated as an arboretum in 2003. The campus is home to more than 200 species of trees, including Eastern Hophornbeams and Littleleaf Lindens.

Many of the exotic trees at Penn State Behrend were acquired by the Behrend family, who traveled extensively in Asia.

Penn State Behrend has invested more than $1.2 million to prevent erosion and improve trails in Wintergreen Gorge, a Natural Heritage Area on and adjacent to the campus.

These Weeping Japanese Cherry trees stand near an entrance to Penn State Behrend’s Reed Union Building. The trees bloom with clusters of pink, five-petal flowers.

Women's Engagement Council board members Melanie Ford, left, and Priscilla Hamilton, right, present the Mary Behrend Impact Award to Paula J. Dombrowski, the Engineer of Record for the Burke Center at Penn State Behrend.

Approximately 1,000 people attended Penn State Altoona's solar eclipse watch event on April 8.

Amateur astronomers brought telescopes, filtered binoculars and other equipment to Penn State Behrend, in Erie, to view the eclipse in totality.

Members of Penn State Altoona's Department of Physics prepare a telescope ahead of the April 8 solar eclipse.

Thousands of visitors crowded into the soccer/lacrosse complex at Penn State Behrend, in Erie, to view the eclipse in totality. Cheers rippled across the field as the sun’s corona became visible.

A spectator gazes at the eclipse during a watch event at the Medlar Field at Lubrano Park at University Park campus on April 8. The SolarFest event, hosted by the Eberly College of Science, drew a record crowd of 8,411. The University Park campus was in the path of 95% totality for the solar eclipse.