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.
Plant biologist Michael A. Campbell, professor of biology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, gave the faculty address at the college’s Dec. 15 commencement ceremony.
Global Programs' fall 2017 travel grants have been awarded in three grant categories: Faculty Travel Grants, Transformational Travel Grants, and Graduate Student Travel Grants. Based on the review committees’ evaluations and recommendations, 30 applicants were selected for funding support. The awardees will travel to 19 countries on four continents.
A $1 million investment in the 1855 Capital Fund, which formed to support companies with a connection to Penn State, could benefit startups and other business projects launched by Penn State Behrend alumni, students and faculty.
As a first-year student during the 2014-15 academic year, Craig Miranda was profiled by Penn State Behrend as part of its “Far From Home” series, which documented a year in the life of international students at the college. This week, the Kuwait native will graduate from Penn State Behrend and as he looks back on his time at the college, he sees one constant: growth.
