The men’s soccer team at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, won the Herb Lauffer Soccer Tournament with a 1-0 victory over SUNY Geneseo. The college’s golf, volleyball, tennis, cross country and water polo teams also were in action last week. Here are the highlights.
Three members of the Pennsylvania State Senate will discuss key issues, including the budget, the opioid epidemic and funding for Erie’s public schools, during a visit to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Wednesday, Sept. 13. The program begins at 6 p.m. in Room 001 of the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center.
New rankings by U.S. News & World Report place the School of Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, among the top 30 undergraduate programs in the nation, at schools which do not offer a doctorate.
Jennifer Tehan Stanley, associate professor of psychology at the University of Akron, has done extensive research on how older adults read facial expressions. That's what she will discuss when she visits Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, for the next presentation of the Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior.
Poets in grades 9 through 12 are invited to enter the Lake Effect National High School Poetry Contest sponsored by the B.F.A. in creative writing degree program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
The "paint" in Heather Cole's large fabric painting "Don't Give Up the Ship" is actually computer code. Scan it with the Blippar app, and the ship will move.
The computer science program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has been accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. The program is the first computer science program at Penn State to be accredited.
Becky Hammon, the NBA's first full-time female coach, will discuss her career journey Sept. 13 when she visits Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, as part of its Speaker Series. Her presentation — “ASSIST: The Keys To Successful Leadership & Teamwork” — begins at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Junker Center.
The Penn State Alumni Association will recognize 14 graduates on Oct. 4 with the lifelong title of Alumni Fellow, the highest award given by the Alumni Association.
The National Science Foundation has joined in supporting Penn State’s goal of taking more of its discoveries to market by awarding Penn State a five-year, $500,000 Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant to establish the Invent Penn State I-Corps Site in collaboration with Ben Franklin Technology Partner’s TechCelerator, Happy Valley LaunchBox, and Invent Penn State’s Innovation Hubs.
