When Taylor May first arrived at Penn State Behrend, he had never sung in a formal choir. The senior digital media, arts, and technology major now says that joining the Behrend Concert Choir ended up being one of the best decisions he has ever made.
Julie Fowlis will perform songs from both Disney's “Brave” and her most recent album, “Alterum,” when she visits Penn State Behrend on Oct. 2 as part of Music at Noon: The Logan Series.
This past year, Vertna Bradley, an assistant teaching professor of film studies at Penn State Behrend, created the SPLICE Film Fest, an international film and video art festival showcasing short films ranging in length of at least 1 minute to no more than 10 minutes. Held this past summer at the Erie Movie House, the inaugural SPLICE Film Fest received more than 400 entries from 55 different countries.
Four alumni of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend will discuss their experiences in wealth management when the Finance Speaker Series returns to the college.
The Penn State Behrend men’s soccer team defeated John Carroll University, which was ranked No. 24 in the United Soccer Coaches Division III preseason poll.
New rankings by U.S. News & World Report place the School of Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, among the top 40 undergraduate engineering programs in the nation in the category of schools whose highest engineering degree offered is a bachelor's or master's. The college is at No. 35 on the list, which was released Sept. 10.
Poets in grades 9 through 12 are invited to enter the Lake Effect National High School Poetry Competition sponsored by the bachelor of fine arts in creative writing degree program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
The women’s soccer team at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, defeated Baldwin Wallace for the first time since 2014, earning a spot in the final at the Herb Lauffer Memorial Soccer Tournament. The Behrend men’s team also was in action last week, as were the college’s volleyball, golf, tennis, cross-country and water polo teams.
Members of the Penn State and local communities are invited to celebrate Constitution Day with on-campus events at University Park on Monday, Sept. 17, as well as activities at a number of Penn State campuses.
Alumna Jen Town will read from her poetry collection, “The Light of What Comes After,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, when she visits Penn State Behrend as part of the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series. Her 6 p.m. reading and the reception preceding it are free and open to the public. Both events will be held in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
