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Members of the Penn State Behrend women's basketball team use long poles to tap on the hoops, signaling where vision-impaired athletes should aim their shots.

To teach soccer, counselors at the Envision Blind Sports camp use balls fitted with bells. "These kids can do more than they think they can," said the camp's director, Jillian Stringfellow. "You just have to think it through."

Counselors at the Envision Blind Sports camp adapt activities for vision-impaired youth. Runners hold a tether, and high-jumpers count their steps as they approach the bar.

The Envision Blind Sports camp brought 84 vision-impaired athletes to Penn State Behrend this month. Activities included adapted soccer, swimming, basketball, track and field, and a treetop ropes course.

Nin Andrews, poet, will visit Penn State Behrend as part of the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series.
 

Dustin M. Hoffman, fiction writer, will visit Penn State Behrend as part of the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series.
 

Karin Lin-Greenberg, fiction writer, will visit Penn State Behrend as part of the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series.
 

Suzanne Cleary, poet, will visit Penn State Behrend as part of the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series.
 

The Penn State Behrend community raised more than $10,000 for Pennsylvania Special Olympics by jumping into the chilly waters of the Bear Force One mobile pool in the Reed Union Building parking lot.

Dr. Darren Williams, professor of astronomy and astrophysics, has a new theory of how the moon came to orbit Earth.