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Mitchell Obenrader prepares to throw the shot put.

Penn State Behrend scoreboard

Penn State Behrend's Mitchell Obenrader, a senior from Fryburg, won the javelin, discus and shot put events at the Carnegie Mellon Quad Meet. His shot put throw traveled 17.21 meters – a facility record.
A portrait of the actress Jessica Biel

Penn State Behrend professor details actress Jessica Biel's family story

The ballad of Francis Marion Brazier ends badly: Brazier, the great-great-great grandfather of the actress Jessica Biel, was killed while attempting to escape a Civil War prison. Joseph Beilein, an assistant professor of history at Penn State Behrend, helped tell the story on a recent episode of TLC's "Who Do You Think You Are?"
The actress Jessica Biel

Jessica Biel on "Who Do You Think You Are?"

A recent episode of TLC's "Who Do You Think You Are?" explored the family history of the actress Jessica Biel. The experts she consulted included Joseph Beilein, an assistant professor of history at Penn State Behrend.

A portrait of Joseph Beilein, assistant professor of history at Penn State Behrend

Joseph Beilein

Joseph Beilein, an assistant professor of history at Penn State Behrend, was featured in the TLC program "Who Do You Think You Are?" He helped the actress Jessica Biel trace a family legend about her great-great-great-grandfather.