Penn State Behrend has been awarded $2.5 million in federal funding to develop a battery-testing facility in the college’s Knowledge Park, where a planned Center for Manufacturing Competitiveness will support the transition to battery-powered heavy-haul equipment in the rail, marine and mining industries.
Join us for a discussion on the Russian War on Ukraine with Oleksiy Honcharenko, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, on April 24 at 7:00 p.m. in Burke 180.
Oleksiy Goncharenko is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and Vice President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons.
He is a member of the "European Solidarity" group in Parliament and head of the caucuses "For a Democratic Belarus" and "For a Free Caucasus."
After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Oleksiy Goncharenko joined the country’s civilian Territorial Defense Forces for the first month. Не has fought against Russian propaganda and publishes widely in international media to bring the truth to the world about Ukraine.
Images from the Pin-Hsuan Tseng's Marine Debris Encyclopedia project. Participants collected marine debris, documented it, and transformed their findings into artistic postcards.
The Penn State Behrend softball team won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season championship with a sweep of Pitt-Greensburg on April 28. The Lions will host the AMCC tournament, which begins May 9.
Josiah Burkett, a senior from Edinboro, received the Thomas H. Turnbull award, which honors a Penn State Behrend student who has contributed to the college community through qualities of character, scholarship, leadership and citizenship.
Oleksiy Goncharenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, visited Penn State Behrend on April 24. His visit was coordinated by the Public Policy Initiative.