Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, visited Penn State Behrend on Jan. 17 as part of the college’s annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “If you can make federal laws to protect a bird, as we did for the bald eagle, then you can make laws that protect people of color,” he said.
Penn State Behrend will celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with three events, including a moderated Q&A with Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd. All three programs are open to the public at no cost.
Ovilee May, an esports broadcaster who has worked with Yahoo, Riot Games and Blizzard Entertainment, will visit Penn State Behrend on Jan. 24 as part of the college's Speaker Series. The program, which is free and open to the public, will include tours of Behrend's new esports gaming lab.
Penn State Behrend’s oldest tradition — the "Hanging of the Greens" at the Behrend Chapel, in Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery — will return to an in-person format with a candlelit program on Friday, Dec. 10.
“I don’t think there will be a binary point in time when we are ‘finished’ with COVID,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb said during a Nov. 11 Speaker Series program at Penn State Behrend. “We will, over time, learn to manage this virus like the flu. But we’ve paid a high price for that.”
More than 100 students from 20 area high schools participated in Penn State Behrend’s Women in Engineering day program – the college’s first large-scale, in-person youth-outreach program since the start of the pandemic.
The lights are back on at Penn State Behrend’s Studio Theatre, which will host a two-week production of “Bright Star,” by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, beginning Nov. 4.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will discuss the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, the resistance to vaccine mandates and the precautions that can best prepare the nation for the next pandemic when he visits Penn State Behrend on Nov. 11 as part of the college's Speaker Series.
“Say we do find life on Mars,” Moogega “Moo” Cooper said during a Speaker Series program at Penn State Behrend. The question then is, did that life evolve independently on Mars? Did it evolve on Mars and seed life on Earth?”
