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.
Penn State Behrend’s wrestling team earned two wins at the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Quad Meet on Jan. 13. Six Lions recorded pins against Hiram.
Students, faculty and staff across all Penn State campuses will now have free access to virtual technology programming provided by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania (TCCP), thanks to a newly expanded partnership with TCCP spearheaded by Penn State Harrisburg, a longtime member of the council.
Julius Rosenwald, the former chief executive officer of Sears, donated more than $50 million through fellowships and other giving. That funding often came with conditions, which limited the careers of the fellows, said Emily Masghati, an assistant professor of history at Penn State Behrend. She was recently awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to write a book about the fellowship program.
