On the Beaver campus, half of all STEM professors are female. That’s much better than the national average. But even those promising statistics can’t mask the larger problem — females are still underrepresented in the STEM disciplines.
Ashu Kumar, the former director of data analytics for one of the largest generic pharmaceutical companies in the world, will join Penn State Beaver as an IST instructor in the fall.
Beaver business alumnus Josh Hogenmiller and his friend, both car enthusiasts, had been using durable powder coating to color their car parts for years. Then they decided to go into business. The result has been bigger and better than they expected.
Using a combination of online and on-ground course offerings, Beaver students can begin studying the Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor’s New Ventures cluster beginning in the fall.