Penn State Behrend will induct six individuals—Danielle Bemis ’04, Jenny Detelich ’00, Jacob Hordych ’04, Andy Laver ’04, Ryan Seyler ’03, and Chris Shearer’02—into the College’s Athletics Hall of Fame this fall. will be inducted into the Hall on Saturday, September 28. Three championship winning teams will be inducted, too: the 1993-94 women’s basketball team, 1978 men’s soccer team, and the 2003 men’s soccer team.
The value of early childhood education is typically measured by school readiness: reading level, language skills and mathematical ability. The 2013 ERIE conference at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will approach the debate from an economist's perspective, with one basic question: Is there a measurable economic benefit to these programs?
The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
Imagine the mathematicians at dinner, splitting the bill.
“Several of us ate at the hotel last night,” said Jorge Martinez, a University of Florida professor who traveled to Penn State Behrend, for the 16th annual conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures. “It developed, as those meals often do, into a sort of family dinner.”
SKF Aerospace, a leading global supplier of bearings, seals and structural components for aviation engines and frames, has partnered with Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, to develop an applied-research aerospace center at Knowledge Park.
Analyzing how a company operates is an important part of any MBA program. Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) takes this educational analysis a step further by involving iMBA students in real-world learning.