Penn State Behrend men’s soccer coach Dan Perritano has an ambitious offseason workout regimen: He just walked from Erie to Washington. D.C. — a distance of 320 miles — with his daughter, Emma.
Christopher House, professor of geosciences, will serve as director of the Consortium for Planetary and Exoplanetary Sciences and Technology at Penn State, effective July 1.
Based on public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), face masks are no longer required to be worn indoors at the Abington, Beaver, Behrend, Brandywine and Greater Allegheny campuses; however, indoor masking is required at the Hazleton, Schuylkill and Wilkes-Barre campuses.
A new biomedical research lab at Penn State Behrend is accelerating the study of ERK, a cellular signaling pathway that is hyperactivated in 90% of all human cancers.
Face masks are now required to be worn indoors on eight Penn State campuses, in accordance with public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that advises that masks be worn in counties with high COVID-19 Community Levels.
Joseph Prischak, a longtime supporter of Penn State Behrend and its students, died May 21 at age 91. "His legacy in the plastics industry, in the Erie community and at Penn State Behrend will last for generations," Chancellor Ralph Ford said.
Penn State Behrend’s track and field teams competed in the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference Championships at Moravian University on May 18 and 19. Dan Dabrowski, a sophomore from Harborcreek, placed third in the discus. He currently ranks 10th in the NCAA’s Division III.
More than 150 plastics industry professionals from 40-plus companies are expected on the Penn State Behrend campus when the Innovation and Emerging Plastics Technologies Conference returns to the college June 8-9.
Even before taking the reins as Penn State’s 19th president this month, Neeli Bendapudi has spent much of the spring traveling across the commonwealth on her listening tour of the University’s campuses.
Penn State Behrend’s Math Options Career Day brought nearly 180 middle-schoolers to the college on May 10. They built spaghetti bridges and twisty foam roller coasters.
