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.
Students of all ages, as well as faculty, staff, and community members, peered through the college’s telescopes, cardboard solar eclipse glasses, and paper-and-tin-foil pinhole viewers to see the moon steal the sun’s spotlight.