As adults, we tend to think we know what’s best for kids. We’ve been there, done that. And we know how to handle bullies.
Or do we?
Few escape high school unscathed by the effects of some type of bullying. Many carry bully baggage into adulthood, sporting emotional scars made worse by well-meaning adults who advised, “just ignore it and they’ll leave you alone.”
Ignoring it didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.
The Wintergreen Gorge is a 3,980-foot-long, 250-foot-wide chasm on the edge of the campus of Penn State Behrend. The gorge is estimated to have been formed more than 11,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, when rushing water below the melting iceberg carved through shale and sandstone on its meandering path to Lake Erie.
Today, the gorge is a popular destination for hikers, birders, naturalists, fossil-hunters, and waders who want to cool off in the creek.
The Early Learning Center at Penn State Behrend has maintained its accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Only 8 percent of all preschool programs earn the distinction.
Psychology students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, visited Erie Day School for six weeks this spring to teach children how to best handle peer aggression. Their work was based on a three-year study by Charisse Nixon, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Behrend will operate a new, expanded Erie Planetarium, which will be located in the School of Science complex. The system, which includes a projector and a 30-foot fiberglass dome, will be moved from the Watson-Curtze property on West Sixth Street, where it has operated since 1959, sometime in the first half of 2014.
The planetarium’s current director, Jim Gavio, will continue to develop astronomy programs for the system. He will be a Penn State employee.
The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
Penn State Behrend will induct six individuals—Danielle Bemis ’04, Jenny Detelich ’00, Jacob Hordych ’04, Andy Laver ’04, Ryan Seyler ’03, and Chris Shearer’02—into the College’s Athletics Hall of Fame this fall. will be inducted into the Hall on Saturday, September 28. Three championship winning teams will be inducted, too: the 1993-94 women’s basketball team, 1978 men’s soccer team, and the 2003 men’s soccer team.
The value of early childhood education is typically measured by school readiness: reading level, language skills and mathematical ability. The 2013 ERIE conference at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will approach the debate from an economist's perspective, with one basic question: Is there a measurable economic benefit to these programs?
The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
When his partner cut the frog open, Jimmy Lucas got a whiff of preservative: a stinky, nose-crinkling chemical odor.