Penn State Behrend alumna Mary (Good) Lawrence gave the commencement address at the college's 2019 spring commencement ceremony, held Friday, May 3, at Erie Insurance Arena. The college awarded 713 degrees during the program.
Two gifts from the John Nesbit Rees and Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Foundation will provide scholarships for Penn State Behrend students and support for "Music at Noon: The Logan Series," one of the college’s premier cultural enrichment programs.
Penn State Behrend’s track and field teams won the Colonial States Athletic Conference men’s and women’s championships on May 5. The men’s team won six events on the final day of competition; the women won 11.
Penn State University Libraries awarded its Undergraduate Research Award: Excellence in Information Literacy to students at nearly all undergraduate Penn State campuses in April, honoring 97 undergraduate students as well as eight graduate students participating in their respective campus-wide research exhibition events.
The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning approved a recommendation to name Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Massachusetts, as the architect for the Erie Hall project at Penn State Behrend during its meeting today (May 2). The recommendation goes to the full board for consideration on May 3.
Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “The Other Side” spring 2019 contest winners included 11 student honorees, three faculty/staff honorees, and one local middle school student honoree. Each of the four Libraries Short Stories Editorial Board winners and the People’s Choice winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card. All winners and honorable mentions will have their stories placed on the Libraries’ Short Edition short story dispensers.
Penn State Behrend’s softball team clinched the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season championship with a two-game sweep of Franciscan. The team will host the AMCC championship tournament, which begins May 3.
The annual Trash to Treasure sale returns to Penn State Behrend on Saturday, May 11, providing students and community members an opportunity to recycle reusable items that they no longer need. The initiative, run through Penn State Behrend Athletics and the Office of Sustainability, aims to keep useful items out of the waste stream while raising money for United Way of Erie County.
Registration is now underway for College for Kids, Penn State Behrend's summer youth program. More than 100 half- and full-day courses are being offered, including several of the program’s most popular classes, including rocketry, robotics, video game design, roller coaster physics and stop-motion video animation.
