In-kind gifts of software from global IT solutions provider Siemens are giving engineering and business students at Penn State Behrend access to three industry-leading design and manufacturing management platforms. Two additional gifts of software from RoboDK Inc. and Riskalyze Inc. likewise are benefiting students.
Penn State Behrend’s track and field teams dominated the Behrend Invitational on April 20, winning 13 events in both the men’s and women’s divisions. Both teams will compete in the Colonial States Athletic Conference championships on May 4.
Nearly 60 high school students from five school districts attended the second-annual High School Model United Nations Conference, held Friday, April 12, at Penn State Behrend. The event was sponsored by the college’s Model UN Club.
Social activist Tarana Burke will discuss the "Me Too" movement and society's shifting response to sexual violence and workplace harassment when Penn State Behrend's 2018-19 Speaker Series concludes on April 17.
Penn State Behrend will renovate and repurpose the historic Federal House, the oldest brick structure in Harborcreek Township, to create a new home for the Susan Hirt Hagen Center for Community Outreach, Research, and Evaluation (CORE). The $6.3 million project will be funded by private support and by the University.
“For the Beauty of the Earth,” the annual spring concert from YPC Erie, will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, May 10, at Luther Memorial Church, 225 W. 10th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania. Tickets are now available.
Heather Cole got an early peek at “Where the Bees Make Honey,” Penn State student Brian Wilson’s dreamlike and emotionally resonant indie video game. Wilson, a senior in Penn State Behrend’s Digital Media, Arts, and Technology program, built one of the game’s puzzle levels for his final project in Cole’s Art 168 course.
