The college’s fourth annual Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Art Show opens Wednesday, Nov. 15, with a “Meet the Artists” reception in the Lilley Library gallery from 6 to 8 p.m. The show features works by faculty and staff members from several departments of the college. For the first time, this year’s show also will include submissions from Penn State Behrend alumni.
Students Allexyss Brown and Samantha Storti work on the confocal microscope at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. An ultraviolet laser and camera have been added to the microscope, which was installed in 2008.
Michael Campbell, professor of biology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, captured this image of a potato using the college's environmental scanning electron microscope. Campbell studies a compound that can be used to prolong storage of potatoes.
Anne Gohn, research associate, and Alicyn Rhoades, assistant professor of engineering, work on the environmental scanning electron microscope at Penn State Behrend. The instrument was purchased with funding from the National Science Foundation.
Since being formed in 1961, the Dorian Wind Quintet has collaborated with numerous well-known artists and commissioned nearly 40 works of wind chamber music. The group's commission of George Perle’s Wind Quintet No. 4 won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1986, the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a wind quintet.
Matt Stanton, left, meets with students Brooks Bennett and Alex Bupp, both seniors, during a recent visit to Penn State Behrend. Stanton, a 2005 computer science alumnus, returned to campus last month to serve as the keynote speaker for a ceremony recognizing that the college's computer science program has been accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET.
“We Who Believe in Freedom: Choral Music as a Vehicle for Social Change,” the fall concert from the Choirs of Penn State Behrend, will be held Sunday, Nov. 12.
