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Women in Engineering Day video 2021

More than 100 students from 20 area high schools attended Penn State Behrend's 2021 "Women in Engineering Day" program -- the college's first large-scale, in-person youth-outreach program since the start of the pandemic.

A close-up of the gate to the Dachau concentration camp

Behrend community to contribute to "Long Night of the Digital Memorial"

Members of the Penn State Behrend community will contribute to the “Long Night of the Digital Memorial,” an international effort on Nov. 9 to upload the names of Holocaust victims who were sent to the Dachau concentration camp. The image is a close-up of the gate to the concentration camp, the detail of which reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" in German, which translates in English to "Work Makes You Free."

An employee in a hat and facemask poses in a shop stocked with wicker baskets.

ERIE study measures economic impact of new Americans

Immigrants and refugees who resettle in Erie County contribute approximately $253 million to the local economy every year, according to a recent study by the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE), an outreach center of Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
A Penn State Behrend volleyball player spikes the ball.

Behrend volleyball team wins AMCC championship

The Penn State Behrend women’s volleyball team swept Alfred State in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship match and will face Calvin University in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament on Thursday.

A Penn State Behrend volleyball player spikes the ball.

Behrend women's volleyball team wins conference championship

The Penn State Behrend women’s volleyball team swept Alfred State in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship match, ending the season with a 22-5 record. The team will face Calvin University in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament on Thursday, Nov. 11.
A portrait of Amy Carney, associate professor of history at Penn State Behrend.

Amy Carney

Amy Carney is an associate professor of history at Penn State Behrend and a member of the Distinguished Honors Faculty Program at Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College.

A close-up of the gate to the Dachau concentration camp

Behrend community to contribute to "Long Night of the Digital Memorial"

Members of the Penn State Behrend community will contribute to the “Long Night of the Digital Memorial,” an international effort on Nov. 9 to upload the names of Holocaust victims who were sent to the Dachau concentration camp. The image is a close-up of the gate to the concentration camp, the detail of which reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" in German, which translates in English to "Work Makes You Free."

A close-up of the gate to the Dachau concentration camp

Behrend community helps preserve Holocaust history

Members of the Penn State Behrend community contributed to the “Long Night of the Digital Memorial,” an international effort on Nov. 9 to upload the names of Holocaust victims who were sent to the Dachau concentration camp. “All of us can become historians,” said Amy Carney, associate professor of history, who is coordinating the Behrend effort.