Latest News

Rise & Shine 2:04: The Lion's Pantry: Alleviating Food Insecurity on Campus
Play Video

Rise & Shine 2:04: The Lion's Pantry: Alleviating Food Insecurity on Campus

Nearly 20 percent of students at four-year colleges do not have sufficient access to safe and nutritious food. Penn State Behrend is no exception to this statistic. Because students shouldn’t have to worry about obtaining fundamental necessities when they are focusing on academics, the Behrend Lion’s Pantry was developed to provide students in need with regular access to food items and personal hygiene products.

Rise & Shine 2:03: Economic Effects of COVID-19 with Dr. Ken Louie, director of ERIE
Play Video

Rise & Shine 2:03: Economic Effects of COVID-19

In this episode of the Rise & Shine webinar series, Dr. Ken Louie, director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE) and associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic, how severe the impact has been, what the unemployment outlook is, and the overall expectations for the market and industries.

This webinar was held and recorded on Thursday, December 2, 2021.

Penn State Breazeale Reactor expands in size and in opportunities
Play Video

Penn State Breazeale Reactor expands in size and in opportunities

Penn State’s Radiation Science & Engineering Center and the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering broke ground on a 10,000-square-foot, $9.5 million expansion of the Breazeale Reactor on Oct. 21. The nation’s first licensed and longest continuously operating nuclear research reactor, Breazeale’s expansion will accommodate an equipment donation from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany, valued at $9.8 million, and facilitate more advanced neutron beam research as well as the growth of nuclear engineering at Penn State.