Penn State Behrend’s STEAM Fair offered more than 100 learning stations, including a locomotive simulator, virtual-reality immersions and a TV green-screen. More than 1,400 people attended the event.
Penn State Behrend’s basketball teams won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships on Feb. 28. The men defeated Pitt-Greensburg, 66-61. The women beat Penn State Altoona, 78-61.
Ten Penn Staters will be honored with the 2026 Alumni Achievement Awards. Recipients will return to the University Park campus to share their expertise with students and be honored at an award ceremony on March 20.
The Penn State Behrend men’s swimming and diving team won its first State University of New York Athletic Conference championship in a four-day meet in Buffalo, New York. The women’s team placed second.
The Spring All-Access Career Fair at Penn State Behrend featured 150 companies, including SpaceX, the Naval Nuclear Laboratory and Bayer U.S. More than 820 job-seekers attended the program.
Teaching and Learning with Technology, part of Penn State University Libraries, will again host its virtual "Symposium Lite," returning 1–4 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, the week after the in-person 2026 TLT Symposium takes place.
Penn State Harrisburg will host a series of virtual information sessions about the Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing’s second-degree nursing program, which is offered at the Penn State Harrisburg, Behrend and Altoona campuses.
Each dancer at Penn State’s IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon has a unique and often very personal reason to participate. The dancers who will represent Penn State Behrend at this year’s event have been thinking about THON since childhood.
The Penn State Behrend wrestling team placed second at the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships in Williamsport. The team will compete in the NCAA Regionals on Feb. 27-28.
Penn State's Office of Faculty Affairs has named 14 new distinguished professors for 2026, recognizing outstanding academic contribution to the University.
