“Hiring is not as straightforward as it used to be,” a recruiter at Penn State Behrend’s fall Career and Internship Fair said. “We are having more personalized conversations.”
The Penn State Behrend women’s tennis team placed second at the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship, at the Oxford Athletic Club in Wexford. Pitt-Greensburg won the title, 5-0. The Lions finish their season with an 8-4 record.
Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.
The Penn State Behrend men’s water polo team defeated Washington & Jefferson on day one of the Behrend Invitational, winning 20-16. Jack Holl, a junior from Greenwich, Connecticut, scored six goals.
Mary Good Lawrence, deputy manager of the International Space Station Vehicle Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Penn State Behrend Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award.
ChatGPT will never fully replace human writing, according to Stephen Monroe, assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi. Monroe will discuss the technology during an Oct. 10 visit to Penn State Behrend. “Some parts of the writing process will always need to remain offline, and slow,” he said.
Kyocera AVX, a global manufacturer of advanced electronic components, is planning to build an approximately 50,000-square-foot production facility in Knowledge Park at Penn State Behrend. The facility will serve as a corporate headquarters and manufacturing base for a new division created by Kyocera’s purchase of Erie-based Bliley Technologies.
Penn State Behrend’s soccer teams overpowered Wells, earning Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference wins. Johnathan Swann, a junior from Allison Park, and Rori Kostos, a freshman from Cleveland, Ohio, each scored a hat trick.
Thomas C. Hoffman II ’88, an attorney with the Erie firm of Knox McLaughlin Gornall & Sennett, has been named one of 13 Penn State Alumni Fellows for 2023. He began his college career at Penn State Behrend.
Students who secure a job offer after Penn State Behrend’s career fair should consider all options before they sign a contract, according to Lauri Enterline, associate director of career services at the college. She spoke with Penn State News about how to handle such negotiations.
