Penn State Behrend will offer its Lean and Six Sigma Series, a sequence of process improvement and quality management classes, beginning this summer. The courses, which will be offered through the college’s Office of Community and Workforce Programs, will be held in the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center. Registrations are now being accepted.
The Office for General Education has announced this year’s seed grants to support the development of Integrative Studies courses. The awarded proposals are representative of a wide range of academic disciplines, and include proposals from faculty at Penn State campuses across the Commonwealth.
Stand for State, Penn State’s bystander intervention initiative, recently asked students, faculty and staff at all Penn State campuses to explore what connects us as part of an interactive event called “All That We Are.”
The key differences between Mars and Venus will be part of Darren Williams’ topic of discussion on April 19, when Open House Night in Astronomy returns to Penn State Behrend. Williams, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the college, will explain what is known about each world and what remains uncertain.
For political science major Sam Zdunski, a two-day April campus visit by Penn State alumnus Sen. Guy Reschenthaler, class of 2004, was a rare opportunity to interact with a politician in unscripted moments.
Tony Award-winning actor Wilson Jermaine Heredia met with cast members of the Penn State Behrend Studio Theatre’s production of “Rent” last month when he visited the college as part of a special master class.
More than 65 students from five high schools attended the inaugural High School Model United Nations Conference last week at Penn State Behrend. The conference was sponsored by Penn State Behrend’s degree program in political science as well as the college’s Model United Nations club.
Andrew Belser, a professor of movement, voice and acting, is the 2017-2018 Laureate and director and producer of “FaceAge,” an immersive, three-screen multimedia exhibit that showcases the interactions between young adults and aging individuals. He will visit Penn State Behrend on Wednesday, April 18.
A study of shoreline changes at Presque Isle State Park and an effort to barcode the DNA of pest scale insects from Southeast Asia were among the 134 research projects students presented at the Penn State Behrend Sigma Xi Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference.
