Swipe Out Hunger will run from Sunday, April 20, through the end of the spring 2025 semester for students to continue to donate their leftover dining dollars.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 17 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Connor Sattely, one of eight recipients of the 2025 Penn State Alumni Achievement Award, returned to Penn State Behrend in March. “Behrend is a place where you can invent things that didn’t exist,” he said. “I liked that.”
Behrend runner Carter Tobin won the 200-meter and 100-meter sprints at the Westminster Invitational. He finished the 200 in 21.68 seconds and the 100 in 10.75 seconds.
Jacqueline O’Connor, professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Ihab Ragai, professor of engineering at Penn State Behrend, are the recipients of the 2025 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
A group of 17 academic leaders from across Penn State recently completed the 2025 Excellence in Academic Leadership program — an experience designed to strengthen leadership effectiveness and support ongoing professional growth.
Craig H. Palmer earned an MBA at Penn State Behrend. Today, he leads Erie Water Works, which provides safe drinking water to 220,000 customers. “I use most of what I learned at Behrend every day,” he said.
The Penn State Behrend men’s 4x100 relay team won at Slippery Rock’s Dave Labor Invitational, finishing in 42.07. Ryan Visosky, a sophomore from Erie, won the discus event.
Tyler Stickles, a senior majoring in environmental science and biology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been named recipient of the 2025 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award. Named for Penn State’s 10th president, the Hetzel Award recognizes a combination of high scholastic attainment together with good citizenship and participation and leadership in student activities.
