Penn State Harrisburg will host a series of virtual information sessions about the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing’s second-degree nursing program, which is offered at the Penn State Harrisburg, Behrend and Altoona campuses.
Each dancer at Penn State’s IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon has a unique and often very personal reason to participate. The dancers who will represent Penn State Behrend at this year’s event have been thinking about THON since childhood.
The Penn State Behrend wrestling team placed second at the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships in Williamsport. The team will compete in the NCAA Regionals on Feb. 27-28.
Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 14 new distinguished professors for 2026, recognizing outstanding academic contribution to the University.
As the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, filmmaker and associate professor Pearl Gluck is traveling across the commonwealth to share her films and examine how storytelling lives within communities — not only in places, but through the people who care for them: archivists, artists, educators, librarians, museum guides and local historians who serve as keepers of cultural memory.
Jay Amicangelo, a professor of chemistry at Penn State Behrend, is using a three-year, $330,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study hydrogenated radicals, which are unstable molecules thought to contribute to combustion.
Two Penn State Behrend runners set program records at the Kent State Doug Raymond Invitational on Feb. 7. The Lions travel to Spire Academy in Ohio on Feb. 14.
Applications are now being accepted for the Steve A. Garban Grant-In-Aid, for children of Penn State technical service or staff employees. This grant-in-aid, awarded to one new first-year student, is intended to assist with room and board charges for two years, provided the student continues full-time enrollment at Penn State or Pennsylvania College of Technology, incurs on-campus room and board charges, and demonstrates academic success.
More than 50 Penn State Behrend faculty members discussed their research at the college’s second-annual Faculty Showcase. In a series of lightning-round talks, they discussed deep neural networks, legacy contaminants in Lake Erie, corporate labor investment efficiency and the tensile properties of tarantula silk, among other topics.
