An image from the comic strip "Loose Parts," which appears daily in the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers. Erie native Dave Blazek, who created the strip, attended Penn State Behrend before earning a journalism degree at University Park in 1979.
Joe Martin is the general manager of Penn State Behrend's WPSE radio. He has added live, local, play-by-play sports coverage to the station's programming lineup.
Erie native Dave Blazek created the comic strip "Loose Parts," which won the Reuben Award — the top prize for comic-strip artists — in 2019, and again in 2020. He attended Penn State Behrend before earning a journalism degree at University Park in 1979.
: Penn State Scranton Instructional Designer Griff Lewis, top screen, and Lecturer in Chemistry Theresa Black, second screen from top, give a presentation on the usefulness of Microsoft Teams at the Commonwealth Connections: Instructor Day event on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Campuses from across the commonwealth came together at the all-day event to provide faculty with a host of innovative ways to use technology in the classroom.
Robert “Bob” Simoneau created the Simoneau Family Educational Equity Scholarship at Penn State Behrend to honor his late wife, Donna, a teacher and social worker who focused on children with special needs. Bob Simoneau is a former director of the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology at Behrend.
Nishi Gupta, a 1982 graduate of Penn State Behrend, has created the Gupta Family Educational Equity Scholarship, which will benefit students at Behrend. She retired from IBM in 2016.
