The Penn State Behrend men’s volleyball team held on against Hiram for a five-set win on March 25. Owen Wienczkowski, a junior from Waterford, had a career-high 18 kills on 33 attempts.
Penn State offers a comprehensive selection of engineering degrees online, from bachelor’s to a doctoral program, designed to help working adults gain the skills and knowledge they need to achieve their personal and professional goals.
Yingxin "Cindy" Wu, a senior majoring in nursing at Penn State Behrend, has been named recipient of the 2023 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award. Named for Penn State’s 10th president, the Hetzel Award recognizes a combination of high scholastic attainment together with good citizenship and participation and leadership in student activities.
Penn State Behrend’s 2022-23 Speaker Series will conclude on Thursday, March 23, with a free, public talk by Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, whose supports Black and non-binary climate-change activists.
The Penn State Behrend women’s water polo team beat Utica, 14-7, on the final day of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s regional tournament. Eleven players scored in the win — the team’s first victory of the season.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank rattled markets in the United States and abroad. For the average investor, however, the risks are minimal, said Greg Filbeck, director of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend.
At the regional Science Olympiad, which drew more than 200 area students to Penn State Behrend on March 6, the real learning often begins when a project fails. “It’s not win or lose,” local teacher Paul Semrau said. “It’s win or learn.”
A 10-run inning carried the Penn State Behrend baseball team past Monmouth during spring break play. Isaac Stouffer, a senior from Punxsutawney, had three hits in five at-bats, including a home run, a triple and two RBIs.
The recently released documentary “Plastic Earth” features Penn Staters Judd Michael, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Sherri Mason, associate research professor, director of sustainability at Penn State Behrend, and a leading researcher of freshwater plastic pollution.
Twenty-two Penn State Behrend students traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, over spring break to assist with clean-up from Hurricane Ian. "Nothing I'd be doing at home would even come close to the impact I can have in Florida," said one student of the experience.
