The fiction writer Chinelo Okparanta, winner of the O. Henry Prize, will open the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series at Penn State Behrend with a free reading on Oct. 6.
Aubin Kotewicz, a senior in the international business and business economics programs at Penn State Behrend, studied abroad in Pforzheim, Germany. He received a Gilman scholarship, a national award administered through the U.S. Department of State.
Recruiters for more than 20 companies, including Natech Plastics and the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, will meet with students during Penn State Behrend’s virtual Career and Internship Fair on Thursday, Sept. 29.
Students at the Wabtec Girls Who STEAM camp at Penn State Behrend were tasked with building roller coasters. They used foam pipe insulators to create the tracks.
Fifty middle-school students attended Penn State Behrend’s weeklong STEAM camp, which offers hands-on science, technology and engineering workshops. The program, a partnership with Wabtec Corp., is being replicated across the country.
