For members of Behrend Benefiting THON, Penn State’s IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon is a year-round effort. “These kids don’t take a break,” one volunteer said. “Neither should we.”
A $4.4 million partnership with the Department of Defense and the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation has expanded metals-based manufacturing programs at Penn State Behrend, including youth programs.
Eight members of the Penn State Behrend community are featured in this year’s “40 Under 40,” an Erie Reader feature that highlights the work and influence of the region’s most promising young leaders.
At Penn State Behrend’s Math Options Career Day, middle-schoolers programmed robots and built spaghetti-noodle bridges. “This showed me that math and science are in a lot of the world,” one student said.
Nearly 50 clients of the Sight Center of Northwest PA visited the Yahn Planetarium at Penn State Behrend to learn about the April 8 total solar eclipse. They used Braille star maps and AM-radio frequencies to track the moon’s path.
The annual STEAM Fair at Penn State Behrend featured more than 100 hands-on activity stations, where area youth experimented with robots, bottle rockets, plasma balls and other technology.
Penn State’s Commonwealth Campuses and the state’s community colleges have announced a new collaboration aimed at expanding educational opportunities in Pennsylvania and removing barriers to degree completion among college students. The collaboration builds upon long-standing relationships between the campuses and the community colleges and a shared commitment to access and affordability in higher education.
Three students at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business developed a digital customer loyalty program and a social media strategy for The Juice Jar, a small Erie café.
As executive director of the ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum in Erie, Ainslie Brosig, a 2001 graduate of Penn State Behrend, managed an expansion project that doubled the size of the museum.
Seven Penn State campuses have created the Commonwealth Arboreta Network, a network that will inventory trees and plant life while sharing research and teaching resources, with the eventual goal of creating an arboretum at each of the University's 24 campuses.
