Tiffany Beers '02, vice president of enterprise innovation at VF Corporation, delivers the commencement address during Penn State Behrend's Spring Commencement ceremony on May 8, 2026.
This Penn State Behrend yearbook photo shows David Maynard, second from left in the back row. He remembers tug-of-war competitions over the Glenhill pool.
David Maynard enrolled at Penn State Behrend in 1961. He went on to earn a degree in aerospace engineering at Penn State. Later, he helped support the Apollo 13 mission.
Penn State aerospace engineering alumnus David Maynard built a career by solving problems no one had faced before. One early project: Keeping NASA’s astronauts alive.
Abhirath Baiju is a Penn State Behrend-based financial literacy ambassador for the Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center. “Many students don’t focus on money management until problems come up,” he said. “That can lead to financial trouble they don’t see coming.”
