In alignment with the recent announcement from the White House on federal vaccination requirements, all Penn State employees at all locations are now subject to a federal COVID-19 vaccination requirement. The deadline for employees to receive their final dose of a vaccine is Jan. 4, 2022
More than 100 students from 20 area high schools participated in Penn State Behrend’s Women in Engineering day program – the college’s first large-scale, in-person youth-outreach program since the start of the pandemic.
Immigrants and refugees who resettle in Erie County contribute approximately $253 million to the local economy every year, according to a recent study by the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE), an outreach center of Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
The Penn State Behrend women’s volleyball team swept Alfred State in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship match, ending the season with a 22-5 record. The team will face Calvin University in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament on Thursday, Nov. 11.
Members of the Penn State Behrend community contributed to the “Long Night of the Digital Memorial,” an international effort on Nov. 9 to upload the names of Holocaust victims who were sent to the Dachau concentration camp. “All of us can become historians,” said Amy Carney, associate professor of history, who is coordinating the Behrend effort.
Rod Troester, associate professor emeritus of speech communication, has retired after a 35-year career at Penn State Behrend. “I never thought I’d be here this long,” he said, “but it became our home.”
The lights are back on at Penn State Behrend’s Studio Theatre, which will host a two-week production of “Bright Star,” by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, beginning Nov. 4.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will discuss the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, the resistance to vaccine mandates and the precautions that can best prepare the nation for the next pandemic when he visits Penn State Behrend on Nov. 11 as part of the college's Speaker Series.
Penn State Behrend’s cross country teams won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championships on Oct. 30. Olivia Nola, a freshman from Erie, won the individual women’s title.
All employees, as well as undergraduate and graduate students supported on wage payroll, who have a disability or medical condition that they believe prevents them from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine can now request accommodations by completing an online request form on or before Friday, Nov. 12.
