Ozgun Caliskan Demirag, associate professor of operations and supply chain management at Penn State Behrend, works with a student in the Black School of Business MBA program. The school's part-time MBA program was recently ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top 150 MBA programs in the nation in the 2019 edition of "Best Graduate Schools."
The Student Farm at Penn State, a diversified vegetable farm established in the spring of 2016, provides fresh produce weekly to the chefs at the Penn State's residence hall dining areas.
Penn State Behrend's outdoor track and field teams placed second at the Carnegie Mellon Quad Meet. Seventeen Behrend athletes qualified for the Eastern College Athletic Conference championships.
Dr. Mike Campbell, professor of biology at Penn State Behrend, was appointed director of the LERGREC. He’s splitting his time between the center and his teaching and research work at Behrend.
Left to right: Tanna Pugh, director, PennTAP; Joleen Hindman, manager, external affairs, West Penn Power; JP Tambourine, manager, economic development, FirstEnergy; David McDonald, president, West Penn Power; Justin Schwartz, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, Penn State; Matt Parkinson, director, Bernard M. Gordon Learning Factory, Penn State; Jeff Fortin, associate vice president for research, Penn State; and Tim Kerchinski, innovation team lead, PennTAP.