As part of New Student Orientation, Beaver’s Class of 2020 will join community members and artists in Aliquippa to paint wooden pallets, which will then be affixed to broken windows and doors, turning a few blighted city blocks along Franklin Avenue into a sea of form and color.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, women hold a disproportionately smaller share of of STEM undergraduate degrees. The female STEM professors at Penn State Beaver are helping to change that.
There are a lot of little ways to measure athletic success: wins and losses, individual accolades, the number of fans in the stands. But nothing – nothing – trumps championships.
Behind the gymnasium, about a quarter mile into the woods, you'll find a waterfall. A handful of Beaver students want everyone on campus to enjoy it, so they've proposed a walking trail that would wind around campus. Now they need the money and manpower to make it happen.
Half of the STEM faculty members at Penn State Beaver are women, and they're pushing hard to help the next generation of female scientists, programmers, engineers and mathematicians succeed.
