The Penn State Behrend men’s track and field team won its sixth consecutive Colonial States Athletic Conference championship on May 8, finishing with 302 team points. The women’s team also won, claiming a fifth CSAC title — the team’s first since 2019.
On his first shift in the intensive care unit at UPMC Hamot, Grant Oishi, a nursing student at Penn State Behrend, saw the worst of the work ahead: He helped care for a patient who no longer had brain activity, and whose organs would soon be removed by transplant teams. But it was the 10-week rotation in the intensive care unit that had the most meaning for him, despite the rough start.
Penn State Behrend’s baseball and softball teams won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season titles and will enter the conference championship tournaments with the No. 1 seeds.
Penn State Behrend will award 660 degrees at the college’s spring commencement program on May 6. The ceremony, which will be held at Erie Insurance Arena, also will honor the college’s 2020 graduates, whose commencement events were virtual, due to the pandemic.
The Penn State Behrend men’s tennis team won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship, defeating Penn State Altoona, 5-1. The team earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III tournament.
Melanie D. Hetzel-Riggin, professor of psychology, has been named director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Penn State Behrend, where she has taught since 2013.
As COVID-19 restrictions are eased and CDC guidance evolves again, four faculty members at Penn State Behrend discuss the pressure on the scientific community and the new public scrutiny of the scientific process.
More than a dozen student leaders and campus organizations were honored at the Excellence in Student Leadership and Service Awards at Penn State Behrend. The program was held in McGarvey Commons on April 14.
The Penn State Behrend baseball team has won its last six games, including a 15-2 victory over Hiram on April 15. Ten players had a hit in that game. Three players – Zack Bowen, Chase Palmer and John Berger – had three hits.
Penn State's sexual misconduct climate survey will close on April 22. The survey was sent to a random sample of students at all Penn State campuses; students can check their Penn State email for a link to complete the survey. The University-wide survey is designed to assess issues of sexual assault, misconduct and harassment.
