Tuba Christmas debuted at Rockefeller Plaza in 1974. Today, there are more than 190 concerts, including an Erie performance, which is staged at Penn State Behrend. This year’s concert will be held Saturday, Dec. 11, in the college’s Junker Center.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is 2-0 in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference play. Tommy DiRienzo, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, scored a career-high 26 points against Mt. Aloysius. He was 6-for-8 from three-point range.
Penn State Behrend’s oldest tradition — the "Hanging of the Greens" at the Behrend Chapel, in Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery — will return to an in-person format with a candlelit program on Friday, Dec. 10.
Christopher Harben, the Toudy Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at Penn State Behrend, has developed an inbox-based micro-simulation that can be used to train employees at health care facilities.
Female-focused outreach programs, including Penn State Behrend’s annual “Women in Engineering” event, are encouraging more women to explore career options in engineering. Here, three Behrend students offer their perspectives.
More than 150 people already have contributed to Penn State Behrend’s 2021 United Way campaign, which supports anti-poverty programs in Erie County. The college hopes to raise $35,000 during the three-week campaign, which ends Dec. 3.
The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team has won its last five games, coming from behind in the fourth quarter to outscore Allegheny. The team opens Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference play at Hilbert on Dec. 1.
A new major at Penn State Behrend will prepare students for careers in the business, sales and marketing offices of science-based organizations. "Our graduates will have a foundation in key scientific concepts, plus have the skills needed to handle the business aspects of their roles," said Michael Rutter, co-chair of the new program.
Dawn Blasko will be stepping down from her role as executive director of the Penn State Faculty Senate, effective Dec. 31. Blasko has served as the senate’s director since 2017, following more than two decades of involvement with the senate as a Penn State Behrend faculty member.
Penn State’s Radiation Science & Engineering Center and the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering broke ground on a 10,000-square-foot, $9.5 million expansion of the Breazeale Reactor on Oct. 21.
