A new partnership with Erie Insurance will provide scholarships and research funding for as many as 50 Penn State Behrend students beginning next year. Following the announcement, Chancellor Ralph Ford, at left, met with student Rebecca Olanrewaju and Erie Insurance President and CEO Tim NeCastro.
Julia Guerrein, a senior environmental science major, spent a summer mapping the shoreline changes to Gull Point at the tip of Presque Isle. Using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), she made six maps (above) that show how much the peninsula has changed between 1939 and 2015.
Pat Black, far left, founder and CEO of HERO BX, cuts the ribbon on the new biofuels research center in Knowledge Park. Black was joined by numerous government, industry, and Behrend officials, including Chancellor Ralph Ford, second from right, and Dr. Martin Kociolek, fourth from right, director of the School of Science.
This past summer, Penn State Behrend senior Sean Wither interned with Delaware North, a global food service and hospitality company that supports several of the country’s professional sports teams. Wither was stationed at Target Field in Minneapolis, home of Major League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins.
