The Women’s Engagement Council at Penn State Behrend will debut its new “Blue Chair Chats” discussion series on April 12 with a program featuring Ashleigh Walters, the former president of Onex Inc. and the author of “Leading with Grit and Grace: A Journey of Organizational Culture Change.”
The Penn State Behrend men’s tennis team clinched the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season title with a 9-0 win over Pitt-Greensburg. The team finished the season with a 7-0 conference record. Behrend’s baseball, softball, track and field, volleyball, golf and water polo teams also were in action last week. Here are the scores and highlights.
Recruiters from Bausch & Lomb, Nissan and Westinghouse Electric attended Penn State Behrend’s spring Career and Internship Fair. “I’m trying to make connections,” said McKenna Shorts, a sophomore who attended the program.
“Anything that happens in an unequal society will have unequal effects,” the climate-justice activist Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru said during a March 23 visit to Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Behrend's spring Career and Internship Fair will feature 165 companies, including Bausch & Lomb, Nissan and Westinghouse Electric. The March 29 program is open to all students at Erie County colleges and all students and alumni of any Penn State campus.
The Penn State Behrend men’s volleyball team held on against Hiram for a five-set win on March 25. Owen Wienczkowski, a junior from Waterford, had a career-high 18 kills on 33 attempts.
Penn State offers a comprehensive selection of engineering degrees online, from bachelor’s to a doctoral program, designed to help working adults gain the skills and knowledge they need to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Yingxin "Cindy" Wu, a senior majoring in nursing at Penn State Behrend, has been named recipient of the 2023 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award. Named for Penn State’s 10th president, the Hetzel Award recognizes a combination of high scholastic attainment together with good citizenship and participation and leadership in student activities.
Penn State Behrend’s 2022-23 Speaker Series will conclude on Thursday, March 23, with a free, public talk by Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, whose supports Black and non-binary climate-change activists.
