Scott McKenzie, an assistant professor of geology and paleontology director at Mercyhurst University, will discuss both local craters and meteorites on Thursday, Feb. 1, when Open House Nights in Astronomy returns to Penn State Behrend.
Penn State students, faculty and staff are invited to compete for $100,000 in funding during the Nittany AI Challenge. The challenge, sponsored by the Penn State EdTech Network, will give participating teams the opportunity to explore artificial intelligence in higher education to improve the student experience at Penn State, solve real-world problems at the University, and generate startup ideas. The deadline for idea submissions is Jan. 29.
Students from six Penn State campuses, including Penn State Behrend, participated in public service projects in Erie on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. They repaired bicycles, ran bingo games and sorted clothes at a community shelter.
The Penn State Behrend men’s swimming and diving team won the first 12 events in a non-conference meet at Washington and Jefferson on Jan. 13. The Lions won the top three spots in three different races.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is undefeated in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference play. The team's defense has held opponents to just 57.6 points per game — the lowest in NCAA Division III.
Annalie Fitzgibbon, a senior plastics engineering major at Penn State Behrend, received a U.S. Department of State Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. This spring, she will study at Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences in Germany.
Penn State Behrend offers the best return on investment of any college or university in northwestern Pennsylvania, according to new rankings by PayScale Inc. In the western 33 counties of Pennsylvania, only Carnegie Mellon University does better.
Martha and Bill Hilbert recently affirmed their commitment to music education and the creative arts by making a $300,000 gift to the Young People’s Chorus (YPC) of Erie, a youth outreach program of the School of Humanities at Penn State Behrend. The gift will allow YPC Erie to provide tuition assistance to more students and help cover the cost of other program needs, such as chorister uniforms, sheet music, instruments and other supplies.
