Four Penn State Behrend students -- Mackenzie Sloan, Alex Croll, Jake Lehotsky and Deeja Vital -- built a thongophone -- a sort of digital player-piano -- from an assortment of cardboard tubes. The instrument has been installed in Lilley Library.
Knowledge Center at Penn State Behrend has been renamed the Samuel P. Black III and Sumi James-Black Knowledge Center. The Sept. 9 announcement was celebrated by Amy Bridger, senior director of corporate strategy and external engagement at Penn State Behrend; Sumi James-Black, interim CEO of Erie Management Group; Samuel P. “Pat” Black III, founder of Erie Management Group; and Ralph Ford, chancellor of Penn State Behrend.
Immigrants and refugees who resettle in Erie County contribute approximately $253 million to the local economy every year, according to a recent study by the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE), an outreach center of Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
Immigrants and refugees who resettle in Erie County contribute approximately $253 million to the local economy every year, according to a recent study by the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE), an outreach center of Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
Members of the Penn State Behrend community will contribute to the “Long Night of the Digital Memorial,” an international effort on Nov. 9 to upload the names of Holocaust victims who were sent to the Dachau concentration camp. The image is a close-up of the gate to the concentration camp, the detail of which reads "Arbeit Macht Frei" in German, which translates in English to "Work Makes You Free."
