Move-in day at Penn State Behrend begins a full week of programming, including academic convocation, the formal start of the academic year. Classes began Aug. 22.
“If I can take a box of stuff up to their room for them and talk to them for a few minutes and make them a little more comfortable about being here, why wouldn’t I do that?” asked Josiah Burkett, at right.
More than 100 Welcome Week leaders and resident assistants helped carry boxes, clothes and totes to new students’ rooms. “It shows them what Behrend is all about,” said Farran Parker, a resident assistant.
Todd Cook, associate professor of biology, Penn State Behrend, is a vertebrate paleontologist who studies ancient sharks and rays from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic of North America, North Africa and Australia.
A rostral denticle of Ischyrhiza mia, a species belonging to an extinct group of sawfishes that lived in North American waters during the late Cretaceous period, around 100 to 65 million years ago. The sample was recovered from a rock formation in New Jersey.
