Two business leaders with experience in accounting and tax consulting will join the executive in residence program at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business for the 2022-23 academic year. Five other executives have renewed their commitments to the program.
Debra Loop, assistant teaching professor and simulation laboratory coordinator, and nursing instructor, Heidi Rich, incorporate new VR simulation into Spring 306 Pediatrics Nursing Class at Penn State Erie's Behrend College.
Registration is now open for the inaugural Women’s Engagement Council’s Run for Women 5K at Penn State Behrend. The run and walk will be held Sunday, Aug. 28, and will conclude with a post-race party with free Berkey Creamery ice cream.
Penn State students visited Washington, D.C. the weekend of April 1-3 as part of a trip planned by the Global Engagement Team within Penn State Global. The student group was a diverse mixture of students from across the commonwealth, with 30 domestic students and 145 international students representing 31 countries.
The results of a confidential university-wide survey show that the majority of Penn State employee and student participants feel safe on campus and view Penn State police officers favorably.
More than 60 vision-impaired junior athletes gathered at Penn State Behrend this month for a week of hockey, lacrosse and zip-lining. “They learn they can play sports that maybe they thought were closed off to them,” said Wendy Fagan, the camp’s founder.
A back injury forced Warren Fargo from his job as a railway engineer. Degrees from Penn State Behrend and Penn State Wilkes-Barre led him back to the railyard, as a senior field service specialist for New York Air Brake Corporation.
Omar Ashour, an associate professor of industrial engineering at Penn State Behrend, has been elected to the Technical Operations Board of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He will serve a three-year term as technical vice president for the board, which develops policy and provides strategic direction for IISE.
Twenty-six Penn State Behrend faculty members have been promoted and will begin the fall semester with a new academic rank. The promotions reflect their success in the classroom and in the advising and research aspects of their work at the college.
