Ed Auslander, the retired president and chief executive officer of LORD Corporation, has endowed an early career professorship at Penn State Behrend. The gift will honor the late faculty member Chester "Chet" L. Wolford.
Penn State Behrend's Yahn Planetarium is closed due to COVID-19, but director Jim Gavio is offering free public programs online. Up next: NASA's launch of a Mars rover with a helicopter drone.
With schools out and summer camps canceled, many parents are in a pinch: How do you socially distance your kids’ schedules without surrendering the entire summer to Fortnite? Melanie Ford, director of Youth Education Outreach at Penn State Behrend, has some suggestions.
Five business leaders will serve as Executives in Residence at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business during the 2020-21 academic year. Each will bring industry perspective and expertise to the classroom environment, and to student research and networking efforts.
The Ecology Institute has awarded 11 proposals from across the University as part of its Flower Grant program, including five projects submitted by faculty at Commonwealth Campuses. The funds provided by the Flower Grant aim to support ecology research focused across the institute’s five core themes.
Two virtual town hall events expanded the discussion of race, diversity and equality at Penn State Behrend. “These aren’t easy conversations,” Chancellor Ralph Ford said, “but they are essential. We must come together as a campus community and fight racism, bias and injustice in all its forms.”
The Center for Security Research and Education (CSRE) has selected 13 interdisciplinary projects through its spring 2020 seed grant program. CSRE is providing a total of $300,000 in funding for the projects, with an additional $300,000 in matching and supplemental funding from other colleges, departments, and institutes.
A manufacturing and product-design team assembled by Penn State Behrend will donate more than $50,000 to non-profit organizations that are supporting medical personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. The money is from a contingency budget for the White Label Face Shields project, which produced 125,000 plastic face shields for health-care workers in six states.
The multi-campus research team of Ashkan Negahban, Omar Ashour and Sabahattin Gokhan Ozden received a three-year, $831,276 grant for research on immersive simulation-based learning models.
Penn State was awarded 10 grants through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development Manufacturing PA initiative. The initiative awarded $2.8 million, across 43 grants in total, and will bring together government, industry, and higher education in holistic collaboration to spur new technologies and processes in the manufacturing sector.
