Retired U.S. Army Col. Priscilla Hamilton, a Penn State Alumni Fellow and a member of Penn State Behrend’s Council of Fellows, recently received the Charles Lupton Volunteer Award, one of the University’s highest honors for a volunteer.
Greg Filbeck, the former director of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend, has been named vice chancellor and associate dean for academic affairs at the college, where he has taught since 2006.
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation and the Department of Defense have partnered with Penn State’s Behrend and University Park campuses to create workforce development programs that will strengthen the U.S. metal casting and forging industries.
At Penn State Behrend’s Math Options Career Day, middle-schoolers programmed robots and built spaghetti-noodle bridges. “This showed me that math and science are in a lot of the world,” one student said.
The Sustainable Labs Program provides educational support and networking opportunities to labs across Penn State, helping them implement changes to become more energy and resource efficient. Actions taken by participating labs are estimated to result in over $155,000 in savings for the University and reduce about 490 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
Penn State Behrend’s baseball and softball teams exited the NCAA Division III regional tournaments with losses to Catholic and Dominican, respectively. The baseball team closed its season with a 29-13-1 record. The softball team finished its season 33-10.
Penn State Behrend’s baseball and softball teams won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships. The baseball team defeated La Roche, 7-1, and the softball team defeated Mt. Aloysius, 5-2.
Penn State Behrend’s summer College for Kids program cloaks learning in immersive and imaginative play: Students become storm chasers, champion cake bakers, Olympic athletes and cryptozoologists.
“Music is a visceral thing,” said Gary Viebranz, a teaching professor of music at Penn State Behrend and the longtime director of "Music at Noon: The Logan Series." “It can make us happy or provide an outlet for pain or grief.”
