Penn State Behrend's literary journal, "Lake Effect," is published every spring. The 2019 edition includes poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction selected and edited by Behrend students and faculty members.
Richard Vann, assistant professor of marketing at Penn State Behrend, recently had the article “Big Picture, Bad Outcomes: When Visual Perspectives Harm Health Goal Pursuit” published in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Richard Vann, assistant professor of marketing, is one of the authors of “Big Picture, Bad Outcomes: When Visual Perspectives Harm Health Goal Pursuit,” a Journal of Consumer Psychology article now available online. For the article, Vann conducted three experiments which outline how third-person perspectives actually can be discouraging when it comes to pursuing health goals, such as making a decision to purchase healthier foods.
Sherri “Sam” Mason recently joined Penn State Behrend as its sustainability coordinator. The Texas native is known for her groundbreaking research on plastics pollution.