A new $1 million endowment created by the Kay Hardesty Logan Foundation will expand and extend Music at Noon: The Logan Series, which makes concert-level chamber music accessible to new audiences through a series of informal lunchtime performances at Penn State Behrend.
Nicole (Frisbee) Gailey, a 2010 graduate of Penn State Behrend, was honored as one of seven Penn State Alumni Achievement Award recipients at a ceremony on March 17.
The Penn State Behrend men’s volleyball team clinched the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season championship with a 3-0 win over Hilbert. The Lions will host the AMCC tournament and play in the semifinals on April 14.
The Women’s Engagement Council at Penn State Behrend will debut its new “Blue Chair Chats” discussion series on April 12 with a program featuring Ashleigh Walters, the former president of Onex Inc. and the author of “Leading with Grit and Grace: A Journey of Organizational Culture Change.”
The Penn State Behrend men’s tennis team clinched the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season title with a 9-0 win over Pitt-Greensburg. The team finished the season with a 7-0 conference record. Behrend’s baseball, softball, track and field, volleyball, golf and water polo teams also were in action last week. Here are the scores and highlights.
Recruiters from Bausch & Lomb, Nissan and Westinghouse Electric attended Penn State Behrend’s spring Career and Internship Fair. “I’m trying to make connections,” said McKenna Shorts, a sophomore who attended the program.
“Anything that happens in an unequal society will have unequal effects,” the climate-justice activist Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru said during a March 23 visit to Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Behrend's spring Career and Internship Fair will feature 165 companies, including Bausch & Lomb, Nissan and Westinghouse Electric. The March 29 program is open to all students at Erie County colleges and all students and alumni of any Penn State campus.
