Dr. Ala Stanford, class of 1991 and 1997, a pediatric surgeon and advocate for health-care equity who began her college career at Penn State Behrend, has been named one of 14 Penn State Alumni Fellows for 2022.
Penn State Behrend’s cross country teams won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships at Mt. Aloysius on Oct. 29. Kody Klein, a sophomore from North East, won the men’s individual title. Savanna Carr, a senior from Franklin, won the women’s championship.
The Penn State Behrend Speaker Series will continue Nov. 10 with a program featuring Martina Edwards, the first Black woman to hold a seat at the New York Stock Exchange.
The Women’s Engagement Council at Penn State Behrend formed to better recognize the growing importance of women in leadership roles. Two dozen women serve on the council’s board of directors.
The Penn State Behrend men’s soccer team posted its seventh consecutive shutout with a 4-0 win against Pitt-Greensburg on Oct. 22. The Lions, who are tied for first place in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, have scored 30 goals during that stretch.
Joseph Snyder, the founder of Process and Data Automation, an Erie-based industrial control systems integration firm, has been named a Penn State Alumni Fellow. The award is the highest honor given by the Penn State Alumni Association.
Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts has partnered with the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses on the new Commonwealth Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Program in the Liberal Arts. The initiative gives doctoral students who have defended their dissertation the chance to apply for a one-year non-tenure-track position at a participating Penn State campus, where they can gain experience teaching in a smaller liberal arts environment while also pursuing their research and working with faculty mentors.
Penn State Behrend’s Speaker Series opened Oct. 12 with a talk by Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. “Waging a war is incredibly difficult,” she said, “but building the peace can be even more so.”
The Penn State Behrend women’s soccer team shut out Penn State Altoona, 5-0, on Oct. 15. Trinity Prestash, a sophomore from Philipsburg, scored three of the five goals.
Steven Bugajski, a vice president for U.S. Steel and a 1994 graduate of Penn State Behrend, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Behrend Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
