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Women's Basketball Team Wins Sportsmanship Award

The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team has received the 2012-13 Donna Ledwin Sportsmanship Award, which recognizes “the highest degree of sportsmanship, character and ethics among players, coaches and spectators.”

The team also won the award for the 2009-10 season.

Coach Roz Fornari values the award, which measures a skill that is not often reflected on the scoreboard.

Soccer, Volleyball Teams Picked to Win AMCC Titles

Three teams from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, topped preseason polls for the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Competition begins Friday, when the men’s soccer team hosts Bethany at the Herb Lauffer Memorial Tournament.

The soccer team has the benefit of experience: Five seniors and three juniors will start for the squad, including senior Eric Hackworth, the AMCC Defender of the Year for 2012.

MBA Students Earn Top Marks in ETS Major Field Test

Students in the Master of Business Administration program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, scored in the top 3 percent on the most recent ETS Major Field Test, a national assessment of university programs.

Students take the exam during their final year of study, after completing most of a program’s required courses. Many of the questions are based on case-study scenarios and require knowledge of marketing, management, finance and managerial accounting.

Move-in day brings poignant moments

Students Move In, Bringing New Life to Campus.

Liam Duffy took the right side of Niagara 205. He hoped his roommate wouldn’t mind.

Move-in day brings a million decisions: Bunk the beds? Share the router? Hang the Evgeni Malkin jersey, or the Fleury?

Duffy had come from Concord Township, in Ohio. He’d made two visits to Penn State Behrend before enrolling. Now he has his own bed here.

Students Move In, Bringing New Life to Campus

Liam Duffy took the right side of Niagara 205. He hoped his roommate wouldn’t mind.

Move-in day brings a million decisions: Bunk the beds? Share the router? Hang the Evgeni Malkin jersey, or the Fleury?

Duffy had come from Concord Township, in Ohio. He’d made two visits to Penn State Behrend before enrolling. Now he has his own bed here.