The Penn State Behrend swimming and diving teams defeated Wells in a dual meet at the Junker Center on Feb. 4. The men’s team won 14 of the 16 events. The women’s team finished first, second and third in five of the 15 events.
Penn State University Police and Public Safety is reminding all students, employees and visitors to familiarize themselves with the University’s official Active Attacker Response Program, to learn more about how to react when encountering a potentially life-threatening situation in any environment.
Plastic microbeads can include both perfectly spherical and rough-edged pellets. These samples, shown on a background scale of 1cm, with millimeter gradations, were extracted from a personal care product in 2013. Sherri Mason’s work subsequently led to legislation prohibiting the use of plastic microbeads in cosmetics and personal-care products.
Distribution of plastic particles by count for 21 samples collected in lakes Superior, Huron and Erie during an expedition aboard the U.S. Brig Niagara in July 2012.
Sherri Mason, right, shows plastic particles that were collected in a manta trawl to a film crew from Al Jazeera America during an excursion in the outer harbor of Buffalo, New York.
