Jon Wolff, a 2013 Penn State Behrend graduate, oversees a $5 million budget as a global events manager for Lenovo. “I like putting a strategy in place and then seeing it come to life,” he said.
The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team defeated Wells and Pitt-Bradford in recent Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference matchups. The team, which has built a 12-2 conference record, travels to Hilbert on Wednesday.
Penn State Behrend swimmers set 15 team records and one pool record in a dual meet at Nazareth on Jan. 27. The men’s team set 11 records. The women’s team posted five record times.
A new show at Penn State Behrend’s Yahn Planetarium explains the science behind the April 8 total solar eclipse, which will pass over Erie in its “path of totality.”
Thank you to all who participated in the Penn State Today winter photo contest! We received an incredible selection of photos reflecting winter scenes at Penn State. Click the headline or picture to view a gallery of our top 12 favorites, including the winner, pictured here, submitted by Gregory Bondar of the Smith Chapel and Carillon on the Behrend campus.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 13 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Norman B. “Bill” Patterson taught mathematics at what was then called the Behrend Center. He always had a camera with him. His photos of life on campus in the 1950s are now on display in Kochel Center.
As executive director of the ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum in Erie, Ainslie Brosig, a 2001 graduate of Penn State Behrend, managed an expansion project that doubled the size of the museum.
Career-best games by Morgan Altavilla and Rachel Majewski led the Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team past Alfred State, 90-78. Altavilla, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, scored 34 points. Majewski, a junior from Erie, scored 33.
With the goal of alleviating uncertainties around smart power grids, the Appalachian Regional Commission has provided a collaboration of universities — including Penn State researchers — across multiple states with $10 million to develop and deploy services that enable electric utility companies and energy tech startups to model and test different scenarios before implementation.
