A NASA-led team of astronomers, including a 2003 alumnus of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has discovered five planets, two of which fall within their system's "habitable zone."
The “Pride of PA” battalion of the U.S. Army ROTC – a unit that includes students from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College – has won a General Douglas MacArthur Award for excellence. The unit outperformed 40 others to earn the honor.
Ryan Jacobs, a senior from Port Vue, pitched the first perfect game in the history of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, baseball. He did it with just 68 pitches.
Layoffs at GE Transportation, the largest employer in Erie County, could raise the county's unemployment rate by 0.6 percent, said Jim Kurre, professor of economics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie.
Catholic Campus Ministry and Protestant Campus Ministry at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will host a joint Baccalaureate for graduation candidates and their families on Thursday, May 2.
Both on and off campus, Penn State Behrend students, faculty and staff are working hard to make Erie a more sustainable place to live. Efforts ranging from students participating in the National Energy Challenge and the coordination of their second Trash to Treasure sale, groups and organizations are raising awareness and generating excitement about sustainability.
Penn State Behrend’s students, faculty and staff are busy spring cleaning. Their urge to purge simultaneously benefits bargain-hunters, the environment and the United Way of Erie County by stocking the second annual Trash to Treasure indoor yard sale.
The Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend has maintained its AACSB accreditation. No other college in the Erie region has met the AACSB standards.
Penn State Behrend mechanical engineering alumnus David W. Boyce, a 2001 graduate and chief executive officer of CMI Industry Americas Inc., has been honored with a Penn State Alumni Association 2013 Alumni Achievement Award.
Water and its many contexts — sustainer of life, ritual purifier, pirate workspace — will be the theme of the Young People's Chorus of Erie spring concert. “Let the River Run” will feature performances by YPC Erie’s Concert Chorus, Chorale, Young Men’s Chorus and Cantare at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at First United Methodist Church of Erie, 707 Sassafras St.
The most recent research related to strategy effectiveness and peer mistreatment among children and adolescents will be presented in the Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Instructors from the ExpERIEnce Children’s Museum will teach new classes in dance, art, history and Lego architecture at this year’s College for Kids, the summer youth program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. Classes begin June 17.
Analyzing how a company operates is an important part of any MBA program. Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) takes this educational analysis a step further by involving iMBA students in real-world learning. From May 12 to 17, the 54 students who have been working together online met in person to study at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, ended its 2012-13 academic year with a commencement ceremony at Erie Insurance Arena on Friday, May 3. The college conferred 671 degrees.
Each year, the Commission for Women honors women who have shown notable leadership and who are accomplished in their fields, have supported the Penn State's diversity efforts and promoted equal opportunity, and/or have contributed to human causes and public service activities. The 2013 Rosemary Schraer Mentoring Award and the Achieving Women Awards acknowledge and exemplify the achievements and contributions among Penn Staters, reflecting the University’s mission of mentorship, leadership, service and promoting diversity.
Want to understand Gay-Lussac's law? Just give Tracy Halmi, senior lecturer in chemistry at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, a 2-liter bottle, a bit of liquid nitrogen and 4,000 pingpong balls.
A timing system for an autocross race course and a gearbox that allows someone to steer a wheelchair with just one hand were among the senior design projects that students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, presented April 27 at the Richard J. Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference.
The door to Rob Weissbach’s dollhouse is wired with a buzzer and a bright LED light – protection against any Weebles that might wobble in. On April 18, Weissbach, an associate professor of engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, used the dollhouse to teach basic circuitry to some seventh-graders from Warren County’s Eisenhower Middle School, on campus for the annual 21st Century Kids program.
Balaji Rajagopalan, an expert in business information networks, will lead the Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, beginning July 1.
Housing will begin providing wireless networks this May that will eventually service all Penn State student rooms and apartments. Information Technology Services (ITS) will install and manage the large network for housing that will cover all residence hall buildings at University Park as well as the Altoona, Beaver, Berks, Erie, Greater Allegheny, Harrisburg, Hazleton and Mont Alto campuses. The project will install approximately one access point radio in every three-student room to ensure robust network coverage. The estimated 4,200 access point radios will broadcast both the psu (authenticated) and attwifi (guest network) network IDs.