This year's ERIE Conference at Penn State Behrend focused on automation and artificial intelligence in the workplace. "It's tempting to think that technological change is just something that happens to us," said Ethan Pollack, the keynote speaker. "But we choose the automated features we put in our workplaces, and in doing so, we build the future we want."
Sally Nelson Metzgar, a longtime supporter of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and its students, died July 19, at the age of 83. The Metzgar Center at Penn State Behrend is named for Sally Metzgar and her husband, Bob Metzgar.
Penn State Behrend's literary journal, "Lake Effect," is published every spring. The 2019 edition includes poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction selected and edited by Behrend students and faculty members.
Richard Vann, assistant professor of marketing, is one of the authors of “Big Picture, Bad Outcomes: When Visual Perspectives Harm Health Goal Pursuit,” a Journal of Consumer Psychology article now available online. For the article, Vann conducted three experiments which outline how third-person perspectives actually can be discouraging when it comes to pursuing health goals.
Nearly 50 seventh- and eighth-grade female students attended Wabtec Girls With STEAM at Penn State Behrend in late June. The program is a weeklong science, technology, engineering and math camp where attendees are paired with female mentors from Wabtec Corp. Other women — Wabtec engineers and faculty members from Penn State Behrend — lead classroom and lab sessions.
Two teams of Penn State chefs earned medals at the 25th annual American Culinary Federation culinary competition, held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on June 13 and 14.
Penn State police officers across Pennsylvania will host events for Penn State employees this summer featuring a variety of refreshments, from free coffee to pizza to ice cream and more.
The Graduate School Alumni Society is accepting nominations at this time for three recognition awards—the Early Career Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, and Humanitarian Award.
Two new "Little Free Libraries" at Penn State Behrend promote reading by leaving books in public spaces. "It's a very simple but effective way to put something positive into the world," says Hannah Moran, who built and maintains the library in Smith Chapel.
Penn State will offer its hybrid Master of Professional Accounting degree program in Cranberry Township beginning in August. The program, which is led by instructors at Penn State Behrend's Black School of Business, will be delivered primarily online, with four evening classroom meetings per course held at the Regional Learning Alliance.
