The list of 2018 Erickson Discovery Grants has been released, and 72 students from Penn State campuses will have their work bolstered by a $3,500 grant from the Office of Undergraduate Education.
Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford and his wife, Melanie Ford, a faculty member in the School of Engineering and director of Youth Education Outreach at the college, led the creation of a $100,000 endowment for students with financial need. The first scholarships were awarded in the fall of 2017.
Pitcher Jack Herzing set a Penn State Behrend record for career strikeouts, with 257. Herzing, a senior from St Marys, fanned the first nine batters in a game against Alfred State. He struck out 16 before the game ended.
A study of shoreline changes at Presque Isle State Park and an effort to barcode the DNA of pest scale insects from Southeast Asia were among the 134 research projects students presented at the Penn State Behrend Sigma Xi Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference.
Andrew Belser, a professor of movement, voice and acting, is the 2017-2018 Laureate and director and producer of “FaceAge,” an immersive, three-screen multimedia exhibit that showcases the interactions between young adults and aging individuals. He will visit Penn State Behrend on Wednesday, April 18.
More than 65 students from five high schools attended the inaugural High School Model United Nations Conference last week at Penn State Behrend. The conference was sponsored by Penn State Behrend’s degree program in political science as well as the college’s Model United Nations club.
Tony Award-winning actor Wilson Jermaine Heredia met with cast members of the Penn State Behrend Studio Theatre’s production of “Rent” last month when he visited the college as part of a special master class.
For political science major Sam Zdunski, a two-day April campus visit by Penn State alumnus Sen. Guy Reschenthaler, class of 2004, was a rare opportunity to interact with a politician in unscripted moments.
The key differences between Mars and Venus will be part of Darren Williams’ topic of discussion on April 19, when Open House Night in Astronomy returns to Penn State Behrend. Williams, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the college, will explain what is known about each world and what remains uncertain.
Stand for State, Penn State’s bystander intervention initiative, recently asked students, faculty and staff at all Penn State campuses to explore what connects us as part of an interactive event called “All That We Are.”
