As the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, filmmaker and associate professor Pearl Gluck is traveling across the commonwealth to share her films and examine how storytelling lives within communities — not only in places, but through the people who care for them: archivists, artists, educators, librarians, museum guides and local historians who serve as keepers of cultural memory.
Jay Amicangelo, a professor of chemistry at Penn State Behrend, is using a three-year, $330,000 grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to study hydrogenated radicals, which are unstable molecules thought to contribute to combustion.
Two Penn State Behrend runners set program records at the Kent State Doug Raymond Invitational on Feb. 7. The Lions travel to Spire Academy in Ohio on Feb. 14.
Applications are now being accepted for the Steve A. Garban Grant-In-Aid, for children of Penn State technical service or staff employees. This grant-in-aid, awarded to one new first-year student, is intended to assist with room and board charges for two years, provided the student continues full-time enrollment at Penn State or Pennsylvania College of Technology, incurs on-campus room and board charges, and demonstrates academic success.
More than 50 Penn State Behrend faculty members discussed their research at the college’s second-annual Faculty Showcase. In a series of lightning-round talks, they discussed deep neural networks, legacy contaminants in Lake Erie, corporate labor investment efficiency and the tensile properties of tarantula silk, among other topics.
Penn State’s Environmental Health and Safety team will host virtual and in-person events for the University’s research and academic community as part of its Lab Safety Awareness Week initiative, Feb. 9-13.
The Penn State Behrend wrestling team won seven of 10 bouts against Mercyhurst University, finishing 34-13. The wins included two pins, three technical falls, one major decision and one decision.
Penn State Pathways will launch this spring to help undergraduates explore their change-of-campus opportunities and make confident decisions about the future of their education.
A new mid-semester “slide-over” course developed by a team of faculty members, including a professor at Penn State Behrend, has created an alternate path for students who struggle in CHEM 110, which is required for science and pre-health majors, and for most of the engineering disciplines.
