The Penn State Behrend baseball team exited the NCAA Division III regional tournament with a 7-3 loss to No. 4 Marietta. The Lions ended the season with a 27-13 record.
Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business recently inducted 34 students into the Beta Gamma Sigma international business honor society, which recognizes scholastic excellence in the world’s top business schools.
Truck-Lite, a worldwide leader in LED lighting systems for commercial vehicles, is relocating its headquarters to Penn State Behrend’s Knowledge Park, where the company will have better access to engineering and technology talent as it prepares for the transportation industry’s shift to electric vehicles.
The Penn State Behrend baseball team won its sixth Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship, defeating top-seeded La Roche 7-5 in a tiebreaker game. The Lions will face Rowan in the first round of the NCAA Division III Regional on May 27.
The Penn State Behrend softball team won its ninth Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship with a sweep of Mt. Aloysius on May 15. The Lions (28-6) will face Rochester in the first round of the NCAA Division III Regional on Friday, May 21.
Penn State Behrend graduate Katie Woodworth balances a nursing career and a commitment to the Pennsylvania National Guard. “You have to go into it knowing that it’s going to be hard, and it will take a sacrifice, but you can do it,” she said.
Choristers at Penn State Behrend couldn’t practice or perform in-person during the pandemic, so they took a new approach: The singers combined their voices for an eight-song virtual year-end concert, which has been posted on YouTube.
Penn State Behrend pitcher Thomas Zbezinski, a junior from Gibsonia, threw his first collegiate no-hitter — the first at Behrend since 2013 — in the opener against Pitt-Bradford on May 8. He struck out nine batters.
Penn State Behrend’s annual Trash 2 Treasure sale is a bargain for yard-sale shoppers and a boon to United Way of Erie County, which receives all proceeds from the sale. This year’s sale is Saturday, May 15.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many of Penn State Behrend’s international students to rethink their approach to their coursework. “We thought it would be a few weeks,” said Laura Gil, who is from Colombia. “We had no idea.”
