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.
Lee Shadeck, counselor at Penn State Behrend, took up painting early in the pandemic. “It’s just so peaceful and calming and therapeutic,” he said. Now, he’s staging an art show, with 30 pieces contributed by Behrend students, faculty and staff.
“I don’t think there will be a binary point in time when we are ‘finished’ with COVID,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb said during a Nov. 11 Speaker Series program at Penn State Behrend. “We will, over time, learn to manage this virus like the flu. But we’ve paid a high price for that.”
The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team won the Tip-Off Tournament with an 85-65 victory over Grove City. Kara Haslett, a senior from Baden, finished the weekend with 36 points, 13 rebounds, five assists and four steals. She was named Tournament MVP. Other scores and highlights from last week:
