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Students and parents move luggage into Ohio Hall during Penn State Behrend's move-in day.

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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 using a tool to dig for fossils.

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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.

Rostral denticle

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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.

Todd Cook using a tool to dig for fossils.

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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.

Penn State Behrend student Lauren Cass walks along the creek in Wintergreen Gorge.

Lauren Cass in Wintergreen Gorge

Lauren Cass, a sophomore at Penn State Behrend, used the "Six Weeks Initiative" at the college to steady her academic progress during her transition to college. "There is this whole web of support," she said.