Can a Popsicle-stick bridge help a middle-school girl cross the engineering and mathematics gender gap? Organizers of the Math Options Career Day at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, believe it can. The workshop is one of 39 interactive classes that will be offered at this year's Math Options program, on May 8. (more)
Wednesday, April 25
Softball - Penn State Behrend 11, Medaille 1
Softball - Penn State Behrend 8, Medaille 5
Baseball -- Penn State Behrend 7, Medaille 1
Baseball - Penn State Behrend 9, Medaille 2
Friday, April 27
Softball - Penn State Behrend 9, La Roche 3
Softball - Penn State Behrend 9, La Roche 8
Saturday, April 28
Baseball - Saint Vincent 6, Penn State Behrend 5
Baseball - Penn State Behrend 9, Saint Vincent 2 (more)
The Lake Erie Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association will hold its 19th annual charity golf scramble on Sunday, June 24, at Venango Valley Inn and Golf Course, in Venango, Pa. The event benefits the Chapter's scholarship fund, which has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships to Penn State Behrend students. (more)
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will award 635 degrees at it spring commencement ceremony, to be held at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 4, in downtown Erie's Louis J. Tullio Arena. (more)
A sensor that will be launched on a NASA rocket and a GPS collar that will correct a wandering dog are among the senior design projects that students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will present Saturday at the Richard J. Fasenmyer Engineering Design Conference. The half-hour sessions begin at 8 a.m. in the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center. They are free and open to the public. (more)
Penn State men's hockey coach Guy Gadowsky will join football coach Bill O'Brien for the final week of the Coaches Caravan, which stops at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Wednesday, May 16. Tickets for the 11:30 a.m. event, which is sponsored by the Penn State Alumni Association and the Nittany Lion Club, cost $30 for alumni association members and $45 for nonmembers. (more)
A campus cleanup team will celebrate Earth Week with a no-plate, no-waste dinner Thursday at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. The meal, which begins at 5 p.m. in the Dobbins Hall Special Events Room, will follow the college's Post-Thaw Cleanup, which begins at the Reed Union Building at 3 p.m. (more)
Tuesday, April 17
Baseball - Allegheny 5, Penn State Behrend 3
Wednesday, April 18
Baseball - Penn State Behrend 10, Mount Union 4
Softball - Penn State Behrend 3, Buffalo State 2
Softball - Buffalo State 3, Penn State Behrend 2
Thursday, April 19
Softball - Hiram 10, Penn State Behrend 2 (five innings)
Softball - Hiram 8, Penn State Behrend 3
Friday, April 20
Women's Water Polo - Chatham 9, Penn State Behrend 8
Women's Water Polo - Macalester 12, Penn State Behrend 4
Saturday, April 21
Men's Golf - Third out of four teams at Mercyhurst Invitational
Women's Water Polo - Utica 14, Penn State Behrend 9
Women's Track and Field - No Team Score at IUP Invitational
Men's Track and Field - No Team Score at IUP Invitational
Sunday, April 22
Baseball - La Roche 6, Penn State Behrend 5 (12 innings)
Baseball - La Roche 4, Penn State Behrend 3 (more)
A Penn State MBA soon will be available to busy Pittsburgh-area professionals: The Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will offer courses for its master's degree in business administration beginning this fall at the Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry. (more)