Social activist and author Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, discussed her work as a community organizer and advocate during a Feb. 17 Penn State Behrend Speaker Series program.
Penn State is planning a phased return over the summer semester to a full on-campus learning environment for fall 2021. The University’s priorities continue to be the health and well-being of its students, faculty, staff and local communities, and the plans for expanded in-person classes have the flexibility built in to quickly respond to changing pandemic conditions, if necessary.
Penn State Behrend’s spring Career and Internship Fair will be a virtual event, with video conferencing links to recruiters at nearly 70 companies. The Feb. 24 program is open to students and alumni from all Penn State campuses.
Penn State Behrend has launched a new lecture series that will feature leading researchers in the field of Holocaust studies. The programs, which continue through March 25, are open to the public at no cost.
A series of online events this spring will offer prospective graduate students information about Penn State Behrend’s master’s degree programs, including curriculum, course content and financial aid resources.
When three married couples enrolled in Penn State Behrend’s MBA program, they learned they had an advantage over other students: “We always knew who our partner would be for any class project,” one said.
Joe Prischak, an Erie community leader who was instrumental in founding Penn State Behrend's plastics engineering technology program, has been named to the Plastics Hall of Fame.
Social activist and author Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, will discuss her work as a community organizer, artist and advocate when the Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend resumes, via Zoom, on Feb. 17.
A band of Reddit investors pushed the price of GameStop's stock from $17 to $483. Then the bottom fell out. Greg Filbeck, director of the Black School of Business and the Samuel P. Black III Professor of Finance and Risk Management at Penn State Behrend, said there are lessons to be learned from what happened.
