Bill Bregar, senior reporter at Plastics News, will outline “The Business of Plastics: Past, Present and Future” at this year's Innovation and Emerging Plastics Technologies Conference at Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, invites are area high school juniors to apply to its two free college-prep summer programs, Minority College Experience (MCE) and Women in Science and Engineering (WISE). An open house for prospective MCE or WISE students and their families will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, in 117 Reed Union Building. Admission is free and no reservation is needed.
Each year, Penn State recognizes outstanding faculty and staff with annual awards in teaching and excellence. The faculty and staff awards ceremony is Wednesday, April 19.
The Penn State Behrend track and field teams opened their outdoor seasons March 25 at the Cal U Early Bird Invitational. The men’s team won the shot put and the 110- and 400-meter hurdles; the women won the 800-meter relay. The campus' volleyball, tennis, water polo, baseball and softball teams also were in action last week. Here are the highlights.
A hit by Katie Gozzard, a sophomore from Pittsburgh, scored the winning run in the Penn State Behrend softball team's March 26 win over Christopher Newport.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $500,000 grant to Alicyn Rhoades, an assistant professor of engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, to study how friction and cooling rates during the manufacturing process affect the strength, flexibility and biodegradation of plastic materials.
Alicyn Rhoades, an assistant professor of engineering at Penn State Behrend, has been awarded a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant.
