Penn State Behrend’s 2022-23 Speaker Series will conclude on Thursday, March 23, with a free, public talk by Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru, the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, whose supports Black and non-binary climate-change activists.
The Penn State Behrend women’s water polo team beat Utica, 14-7, on the final day of the Collegiate Water Polo Association’s regional tournament. Eleven players scored in the win — the team’s first victory of the season.
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank rattled markets in the United States and abroad. For the average investor, however, the risks are minimal, said Greg Filbeck, director of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend.
At the regional Science Olympiad, which drew more than 200 area students to Penn State Behrend on March 6, the real learning often begins when a project fails. “It’s not win or lose,” local teacher Paul Semrau said. “It’s win or learn.”
A 10-run inning carried the Penn State Behrend baseball team past Monmouth during spring break play. Isaac Stouffer, a senior from Punxsutawney, had three hits in five at-bats, including a home run, a triple and two RBIs.
The recently released documentary “Plastic Earth” features Penn Staters Judd Michael, professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Sherri Mason, associate research professor, director of sustainability at Penn State Behrend, and a leading researcher of freshwater plastic pollution.
Twenty-two Penn State Behrend students traveled to Fort Myers, Florida, over spring break to assist with clean-up from Hurricane Ian. "Nothing I'd be doing at home would even come close to the impact I can have in Florida," said one student of the experience.
An $896,000 grant from the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority will expand the services and geographic reach of the Northwest Pennsylvania Innovation Beehive Network, which includes the James R. Meehl Innovation Commons at Penn State Behrend.
Samuel Hetrick, a junior from New Bethlehem, won the high jump at the All-Atlantic Region Indoor Track and Field Conference championships, clearing a height of 2.15 meters. He will compete in the NCAA DIII National Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama, on March 9-11.
One year into the war in Ukraine, one thing is clear to Lena Surzhko Harned, an associate teaching professor of political science at Penn State Behrend: Russia overestimated its ability to win.
