A student drops a Barbie doll on a bungee cord at Penn State Behrend's Math Options Career Day. The exercise was part of a workshop that taught Hooke's Law, which explains elasticity.
In its 10th year, and with more than $1 million in holdings, the Intrieri Family Student-Managed Fund at Penn State Behrend paid a different kind of dividend: Thirteen student analysts earned scholarships that were paid from the fund’s profits.
Penn State Behrend alumna Karla (Murray) Mazza is co-owner of four Erie County physical therapy clinics. “My Behrend volleyball coach, Phil Pisano, used to tell us that it was important to find a career that aligned with our purpose in life,” she said. “I think I have done that.”
Nursing instructors at Penn State Behrend are using Oculus headsets and other virtual reality technology to expose students to a wider variety of patient-care simulations.
Two students experiment with Morse code during Penn State Behrend's Math Options Career Day. The program exposes middle-school students to different applications of "book math."
A student drops a Barbie doll on a bungee cord at Penn State Behrend's Math Options Career Day. The exercise was part of a workshop that taught Hooke's Law, which explains elasticity.