As students plan their return to Penn State campuses for the fall 2022 semester, the University continues to provide resources to help individuals stay safe and healthy and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Penn State University Health Services (UHS) is encouraging students to protect themselves against monkeypox in light of cases in Pennsylvania and nationally. Monkeypox is a viral infection primarily spread through prolonged close contact. It is not a sexually transmitted infection (STI), and anybody can be at risk, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
Eliott Fesmire, 12, wrote several stories for the debut issue of the Behrend Tribune, a student newspaper created during the College for Kids summer program.
Students in Penn State Behrend’s "College for Kids" program build rockets, robots and miniature roller coasters. This year, they also created a summer-camp newspaper. “I wanted to see how it felt to document people and what they were doing,” said student participant Elliott Fensmire.
Tom Noyes, a professor of creative writing and English at Penn State Behrend, wrote the novel "The Substance of Things Hoped For," which was published by Slant.
Tom Noyes is a professor of creative writing and English at Penn State Behrend. He is the author of three story collections and a novel, "The Substance of Things Hoped For."
For his first novel, “The Substance of Things Hoped For,” Tom Noyes, a professor of creative writing and English at Penn State Behrend, looked to an ancestor, John Humphry Noyes, a “Bible Communist” who created a New York community based on group marriage and mutual criticism.
Christopher A. Elwell has been appointed to a renewable one-year term as an executive in residence at Penn State Behrend's Black School of Business. He is a CPA at Maloney, Reed, Scarpitti & Co.
