Feature Archive

A Penn State Behrend student plays a video game in the college's new esports lounge.

Behrend esports team brings new energy to renovated Perry Hall gaming lab

Behrend's new esports team competes in the Eastern College Athletic Conference. Matches are played in a renovated gaming lab in Perry Hall.

A male student wearing a VR headset experiences a virtual-nursing simulation.

VR simulations enhance nursing program at Behrend

Nursing instructors are using Oculus headsets and other VR technology to expose Behrend students to more patient-care simulations.

A student works on a Bloomberg terminal in Burke Center at Penn State Behrend.

Intrieri Fund managers now eligible for scholarships

The $1 million Intrieri Family Student-Managed Fund has begun to pay out scholarships for the students who run it.

A portrait of Penn State Behrend student Titus Fuller

Behrend student benefits from RaiseMe transfer scholarship

Titus Fuller earned scholarships through the RaiseMe transfer initiative. He’s now completing an engineering degree at Penn State Behrend.

A Penn State Behrend student shows a translated safety checklist to a professor and a corporate partner.

Behrend team develops multilingual safety signs

Penn State Behrend students developed multilingual safety signage for Port Erie Plastics, an injection-molding company with a diverse workforce.

Penn State Behrend student Aubin Kotewicz stands on a street in Germany while studying abroad.

Behrend students embrace study abroad programs

More than 40 Penn State Behrend students have traveled abroad to study in the last year.

Penn State Behrend graduate Josh Sige holds a camera during a New Orleans Saints football game.

Behrend grad goes pro with NFL video work

Josh Sige creates in-game video and digital content for the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Pelicans.

Penn State Behrend student Lauren Cass stands near a creek in Wintergreen Gorge.

‘Six Weeks’ initiative focuses on student success

A coordinated network of campus resources supports students as they adjust to life at Penn State Behrend.

A female student conducts a chemistry experiment in a biomedical research lab at Penn State Behrend.

New Behrend faculty, labs expand MWRI partnership

A new biomedical research lab at Behrend is accelerating the study of ERK, a cellular signaling pathway that is hyperactivated in 90% of all human cancers.

A portrait of Grant Oishi, a graduate of Penn State Behrend's nursing program.

Behrend graduate finds purpose in intensive care unit

As a student in the nursing program at Penn State Behrend, Grant Oishi did clinical rotations at UPMC Hamot and Saint Vincent Hospital.