Penn State Beaver second-year engineering students got a tour of the nation's sixth-largest, coal-fired power plant, thanks to their professor and a Beaver alumnus.

Penn State Beaver Associate Professor of Communications Juliette Storr will screen her documentary "So, You Think You is Woman, Hey?" at 7 p.m. Oct. 23, at The Tull Family Theater in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Tickets are available for purchase now.

Do you have an idea to improve life on campus? Then enter the Lion's Den, an annual student idea competition designed to foster innovation on campus. It's part of the University-wide Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Graduates of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, a leading research program in the Middle East where students develop the skills needed to help solve pressing environmental issues, will speak at Penn State Beaver on Oct. 19. The public is welcome to attend.

Beaver Information Sciences and Technology Instructor Ashu Kumar is developing a voice-enabled classroom assistant that can, among other things, take attendance and award participation points.

The summer harvest from Penn State Beaver's campus garden has been donated to the Salvation Army to feed those in need.

Former Penn State Beaver biology student Ruhi Patel credits the campus with laying a foundation for her dream career — dentistry.