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.
