Ian Campbell, a May Chemistry graduate, has been awarded the Ernest B. Yeager Award for research in spectroscopy. The award is given annually to one undergraduate in the northeast Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania region by the Cleveland section of the American Chemical Society. Campbell will receive $400 in cash and a one-year membership to the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
One of the coolest new 5Ks last year is returning again for 2016. Save the date for the Behrend Athletics Berkey Ice Cream Run scheduled for Friday, Aug. 26 at 6 p.m.
While building a vehicle for this year’s Society of Automotive Engineers’ International Supermileage Challenge, Penn State Behrend senior Tyler Dorsch came to a startling realization.
“Every year that I’ve been in the (Society of Automotive Engineers) club, we’ve done worse than the year before,” said Dorsch, a Harmony native and president of Penn State Behrend’sSAE Club.
The mural on the wall of Kay Hardesty Logan’s summer home is a tribute to the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, which launched Mrs. Logan’s career in music. The woman at its center is playing a flute solo.
Penn State Behrend’s Supermileage (SAE) team exceeded their goal by 500 miles per gallon (m.p.g.) at this summer’s Supermileage Challenge and took second place overall! The competition, which challenges teams to create cars that squeeze the most mileage out of a single tank of high-octane gasoline, was held in June at Eaton Corporation’s Marshall Proving Grounds track in Michigan. Behrend’s car exceeded 2,500 m.p.g. during more than one of seven successful runs at the competition.
When Dr. Omar Ashour graduated from high school, he was accepted into both medical and engineering schools. But which to choose?
Ashour’s grandmother counseled him to pick medicine. “I remember her saying that it was much better to save lives than to sell detergent, which is what her perception of industrial engineering was.”
Penn State Behrend head baseball coach, Paul Benim, has been chosen the 2016 Baseball Person of the Year by the Erie Country Baseball Umpires Chapter (ECBU). Benim will be honored at the City/County All-Star Banquet on Sunday, June 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Penn State Behrend Dining Hall.
Mariah Lucas took a close look at the controller that lay before her. She had played video games before, but this was different. This controller operated a live robot created with a VEX robotics kit.
Mariah Lucas took a close look at the controller that lay before her. She had played video games before, but this was different. This controller operated a live robot created with a VEX robotics kit.