Ihab Ragai, an assistant professor of engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Just 2 percent of the society’s 140,000 professional members earn the distinction.
With a 1-0 win over Mt. Aloysius, the Penn State Behrend women’s soccer team clinched the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season title.
Astronaut Mike Fincke will discuss his experience with NASA at an Open House Night in Astronomy at Penn State Behrend on Thursday, Nov. 1. His presentation, “Space Exploration: the International Space Station, the Moon and Beyond,” will begin at 7 p.m. in room 180 of the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center, 5101 Jordan Road.
This past summer, Behrend student Sean Wither interned with Delaware North, a global food service and hospitality company that supports several of the country’s professional sports teams. Wither was stationed at Target Field in Minneapolis, home of Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins.
Penn State Behrend’s fifth annual Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Art Show will open Nov. 5 with a “Meet the Artists” reception from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Lilley Library gallery.
Sophomore Matt Olimski scored with just two seconds left in the game to lead the Penn State Behrend men’s water polo team past Washington and Jefferson, 12-11. The win earned the Lions a third-place finish at the Collegiate Water Polo Association's Division III Eastern championships.
Erie Insurance has partnered with Penn State Behrend to create scholarships for first-year students and funding for upper-level students to work with local businesses and nonprofits. In its first year, the $4 million program, called Excelerate, is expected to provide scholarships and stipends for as many as 50 students.
"If we adopt the idea, that art delights, instructs and moves, and we think about governing as moving one another, steering one another, then — in this definition — all art is, de facto, political. It tries to delight, to instruct, and to move us in some way," said John Champagne, the 2018-19 Penn State Laureate, during his lecture on Oct. 12, part of the Penn State Forum speaker series.
A loss to Elizabethtown snapped a seven-match winning streak for the Penn State Behrend volleyball team. Setter Lexi Irwin, a senior from Greensburg, was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference athlete of the week for the third time this season.
