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.
In keeping with Penn State Behrend's longstanding tradition of inviting a member of the faculty to address graduation candidates and their guests, Dr. Ashutosh Deshmukh, professor of accounting and management information systems, was the speaker at the Friday, May 6, commencement at Erie Insurance Arena.
A total of 572 degrees were conferred this past Friday, May 6, at Penn State Behrend's Spring Commencement.
Ashutosh V. Deshmukh, professor of accounting and management information systems and chair of the iMBA program, was the commencement speaker at the ceremony. Chancellor Ralph Ford and Council of Fellows Chairman J. Scott McCain also offered remarks.
New graduates Trey Neveux, of Butler, and Catalina Stevenson, of Norristown, were both student speakers.
Mariah Lucas took a close look at the controller that lay before her. She had played video games before, but this was different.
