Jun Zhou has been promoted to professor of mechanical engineering. He teaches energy systems, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and numerical models in the School of Engineering.
John Gamble, a distinguished professor of political science and international law, has retired after 44 years at Penn State Behrend. He was the longest-serving faculty member at the college.
Melanie Hetzel-Riggin, a professor of psychology at Penn State Behrend, studies trauma and resiliency. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, she turned a course she was teaching into a real-time case study.
Steven Miller, the associate director of Housing and Food Services at Penn State Behrend, has visited the homes of 20 former presidents, including the Hyde Park residence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.