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Penn State Human Resources: Introducing HR Shared Services. Learn more about the new ways to get answers to your HR and payroll-related questions.

HR Shared Services

HR Shared Services is a new University-wide approach to helping employees with their HR needs. It will become available to Penn State Behrend faculty and staff in December. Watch for more details in the coming months.

A portrait of Penn State Behrend alumnus Wes Hall, with the Lace-N-Lock device.

Wes Hall invents Lace-N-Lock device

Wes Hall, a 2017 graduate of Penn State Behrend, developed the Lace-N-Lock device, which allows people with mobility issues to tighten their shoes without having to bend down and actually touch the laces.

Penn State Behrend graduate Wes Hall holds the Lace-N-Lock shoe-tying device.

Wes Hall

Wes Hall, a 2017 graduate of Penn State Behrend, developed the Lace-N-Lock device, which allows people with mobility issues to tighten their shoes without having to bend down and touch the laces.

Penn State Behrend professor Ken Louie.

Ken Louie

Ken Louie directs the Economic Research Institute of Erie and is an associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend.