A three-day event for parents, families and alumni will launch a yearlong celebration of Penn State Behrend's 70th anniversary. The festivities begin Sept. 21.
LORD Corporate Day September 20 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Clark Cafe
Meet LORD recruiters to network and discuss job and internship opportunities.
LORD Corporation is a diversified technology and manufacturing company developing highly reliable adhesives, coatings, motion management devices, and sensing technologies that significantly reduce risk and improve product performance. For more than 90 years, LORD has worked in collaboration with our customers to provide innovative oil and gas, aerospace, defense, automotive and industrial solutions. With world headquarters in Cary, N.C., LORD has approximately 3,100 employees in 26 countries and operates 19 manufacturing facilities and 10 R&D centers worldwide. LORD actively promotes STEM education and many other community engagement initiatives.
New rankings by U.S. News & World Report place the School of Engineering at Penn State Behrend among the top 40 undergraduate engineering programs in the nation.
Parents, Families & Alumni Weekend at Penn State Behrend will be held Sept. 21-23. The event, which coincides with the start of the college's 70th anniversary, is a celebration of Penn State Behrend's past, present and future.
Alumna Jen Town will read from her poetry collection, “The Light of What Comes After,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, when she visits Penn State Behrend as part of the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series. Her 6 p.m. reading and the reception preceding it are free and open to the public. Both events will be held in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
The number of miner deaths has been substantially reduced in recent decades thanks to the use of modern technology. Among the tools used in a mine emergency is a battery-operated, explosion-proof rescue robot.
