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:
Four students at Penn State Behrend turned a truckload of cardboard tubes into a thongophone — a custom-built instrument that will look familiar to fans of the Blue Man Group.
In alignment with the recent announcement from the White House on federal vaccination requirements, all Penn State employees at all locations are now subject to a federal COVID-19 vaccination requirement. The deadline for employees to receive their final dose of a vaccine is Jan. 4, 2022
More than 100 students from 20 area high schools participated in Penn State Behrend’s Women in Engineering day program – the college’s first large-scale, in-person youth-outreach program since the start of the pandemic.
Immigrants and refugees who resettle in Erie County contribute approximately $253 million to the local economy every year, according to a recent study by the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE), an outreach center of Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
The Penn State Behrend women’s volleyball team swept Alfred State in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship match, ending the season with a 22-5 record. The team will face Calvin University in the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament on Thursday, Nov. 11.
