Penn State Behrend has received a new Carnegie Classification as a “Higher Earnings” institution — a reflection of the return on investment for Behrend graduates.
Penn State Behrend awarded more than 600 degrees at the college’s spring commencement program, held May 9 at Erie Insurance Arena. Tim NeCastro, president and CEO of Erie Insurance, gave the commencement address.
Members of the Penn State Behrend men’s track and field team set three program records at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference Outdoor Championships in Williamstown, Mass.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 17 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Cora E. MacBeth, a chemist with 20 years of experience as a faculty member, researcher and academic administrator at Emory University, has been appointed director of the School of Science at Penn State Behrend.
Penn State University Libraries presented the 2025 Undergraduate Research Awards: Excellence in Information Literacy honors to 104 students at 20 undergraduate Penn State campuses this spring.
The Penn State Behrend baseball team won its second consecutive Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship, defeating Alfred State, 8-2. The Lions will face Keystone in the first round of the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament on Friday, May 16.
Nominations are now open for the first round of scholarships made possible through The Endowment for The J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox Graduate School. The first round includes general scholarships, dissertation completion awards, summer research funding, and military and veteran student scholarships.
More than 210 students presented their capstone projects at Penn State Behrend’s Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference. The projects included sustainable bioplastics, an AI camera system and a smartphone app that can identify human bones at forensic recovery sites.
Penn State Behrend track-and-field athlete Dan Dabrowski set school and meet records in the discus on the final day of the State University of New York Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships. Dabrowski, a senior from Harborcreek, recorded a 53.32-meter throw, breaking a meet record that was set in 1979.
