Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts has partnered with the Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses on the new Commonwealth Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Program in the Liberal Arts. The initiative gives doctoral students who have defended their dissertation the chance to apply for a one-year non-tenure-track position at a participating Penn State campus, where they can gain experience teaching in a smaller liberal arts environment while also pursuing their research and working with faculty mentors.
Penn State Behrend’s Speaker Series opened Oct. 12 with a talk by Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. “Waging a war is incredibly difficult,” she said, “but building the peace can be even more so.”
The Penn State Behrend women’s soccer team shut out Penn State Altoona, 5-0, on Oct. 15. Trinity Prestash, a sophomore from Philipsburg, scored three of the five goals.
Steven Bugajski, a vice president for U.S. Steel and a 1994 graduate of Penn State Behrend, has been named the 2022 recipient of the Behrend Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
"A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence" concluded on June 30, raising more than $2.2 billion for the three key imperatives of a modern land-grant institution: opening the doors of higher education to students from every background; creating transformative experiences for both students and citizens; and impacting the larger world through research, outreach and service. While the nearly $844.5 million raised for the last imperative advanced a wide range of priorities across the University, the campaign focused attention on three opportunities for impact: economic development, resource security, and human health.
The Penn State Behrend men’s soccer team recently built a three-game win streak with victories over Houghton, La Roche and Hiram. The team hosts Alfred State on Wednesday, Oct. 12.
The Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend will begin Wednesday, Oct. 12, with a program featuring former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. The program will be moderated by Lena Surzhko Harned, an associate teaching professor of political science and associate director of the Public Policy Fund at Penn State Behrend.
The Penn State Behrend women’s soccer team scored a season-high seven goals against Mt. Aloysius on Oct.1. Trinity Prestash, a sophomore from Phillipsburg, and Mia Zec, a junior from Cranberry Township, each scored two.
More than 1,100 students attended Penn State Behrend’s fall Career and Internship Fair on Sept. 21. They met with recruiters from more than 160 companies, including Toyota, ExxonMobil and Bausch & Lomb.
The fiction writer Chinelo Okparanta, winner of the O. Henry Prize and a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, will open the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series at Penn State Behrend on Oct. 6.
