The Penn State Behrend men’s track and field team won five events at the Edinboro Invitational. Phoenix Myers, a junior from Erie, won the mile run, finishing in 4:27.44. Jenna Shelton, a senior from Cabot, placed second in the 800-meter women’s race, finishing in 2:20.57. She qualified for the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field meet.
Penn State Behrend senior Julia Cecchetti built her own robotic dog. Now she's working on a static-fire, liquid-fueled rocket engine. "It's the most challenging engineering problem you can take on," she says. "I love that."
In 2019, critics tried to disinvite 37 speakers, including Vice President Mike Pence, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. That's not a new phenomenon, said Greg Lukianoff, the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: In 2000, Old Dominion University tried to block a talk by Mr. Rogers.
Penn State Behrend wrestler Michael Binni, a sophomore from Canonsburg, won by major decision against Thiel and by forfeit against Pitt-Bradford. He wrestles in the 125-pound weight class.
Penn State Go, the official all-in-one mobile app, is available to download in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Penn State Go delivers single sign-on access to features including Canvas, Penn State email, shuttle bus tracking, campus maps, grades, class schedules, tuition bills via LionPATH, LionCash+, library services, Starfish academic advising, and more.
Six former student-athletes – three of whom still hold program records – have been inducted into the Penn State Behrend Athletics Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony was held in McGarvey Commons, in the college’s Reed Union Building.
The Penn State Behrend women’s basketball team trailed until the fourth quarter against the Panthers. They rallied with an 18-7 run, led by Caitlin Carnuche, a sophomore from New Castle, who scored a total of 22 points.
Penn State World Campus is recognized in six top-10 rankings of U.S. News and World Report’s 2020 Best Online Programs. U.S. News also ranked Penn State World Campus in six categories of its Best Online Programs for Veterans lists.
Penn State Behrend alumna Tesha Nesbit Arrington gave the commencement address at the college's 2019 fall commencement ceremony, held Dec. 20 in the Junker Center. The college awarded 270 degrees during the program.
The two-time Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet will perform songs from John Coltrane's seminal LP "A Love Supreme" when Penn State Behrend's Music at Noon: The Logan Series resumes Jan. 15. The concert is free and open to the public.
