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The Penn State Behrend athletics program has won its first AMCC Institutional Peak Performer Award, which honors the program with the highest percentage of student-athletes named to the Academic All-Conference Team.
Two Penn State Behrend faculty members will be featured in an online screening and panel discussion about “Hemingway,” the new PBS film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, on June 17.
Ihab Ragai, associate professor of engineering at Penn State Behrend, has been named one of the 20 most influential academics in ‘smart manufacturing,’ as chosen by SME, the former Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
The Intrieri Family Student-Managed Fund at Penn State Behrend is now worth more than $1 million. The fund will soon begin to pay out scholarships for students in Behrend’s Black School of Business.
The six-week Pathways to Success Summer Start program provides tools and resources that help Penn State students transition to college. At Penn State Behrend, students in the program also are eligible for Excelerate scholarships.
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.