Psychology students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, visited Erie Day School for six weeks this spring to teach children how to best handle peer aggression. Their work was based on a three-year study by Charisse Nixon, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Behrend.
Kimberly Cook, a 2013 graduate of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, works with students at Erie Day School. Penn State Behrend psychology majors visited the school for six weeks this spring, teaching students how to most effectively handle bullies.
Penn State Behrend will operate a new, expanded Erie Planetarium, which will be located in the School of Science complex. The system, which includes a projector and a 30-foot fiberglass dome, will be moved from the Watson-Curtze property on West Sixth Street, where it has operated since 1959, sometime in the first half of 2014.
The planetarium’s current director, Jim Gavio, will continue to develop astronomy programs for the system. He will be a Penn State employee.
