Over her four years at Penn State Beaver, Jessica Findling served as a resident assistant, worked at the Center for Academic Achievement, and headed the Psychology Club. And, maybe most significantly, created a school family away from her biological family that helped to build her confidence and prepared her for graduate school.
Beaver administration of justice instructor LaVarr McBride received a Schreyer grant, which he hopes will be "an opportunity to involve our students in hands-on criminal justice" and help crime victims and offenders connect and heal.
John R. Chapin, professor of communications at Penn State Beaver, is the author of “I Know You Are, But What Am I? Adolescents’ Third-Person Perception Regarding Dating Violence,” an article recently published in The Journal of Educational Research.
Patricia Greene's keynote address, "Entrepreneurship Education: Global Trends and Practices," engaged the audience at the fourth annual ENTI Minor Faculty and Friends Summer Gathering. Greene is a leader in entrepreneurship education.
Penn State Beaver has come alive again as most of the freshmen who will be living in Harmony Hall moved in Aug. 18, 2016. Athletes and out-of-state and international students moved in a day or two before.
Penn State Beaver sophomore Nick Pelino puts a "paw print" on a window in Aliquippa's business district on Saturday, Aug. 20. As part of New Student Orientation, Pelino joined Beaver’s Class of 2020, community members and artists to clean up, and add color to, a few blighted city blocks along Franklin Avenue. Theevent was a collaboration between the campus and the Franklin Center, an organization that provides human services, outreach and referral services to low-income and unemployed Beaver County residents.
Penn State Beaver junior Alexa DiPietrantonio and freshman Logan Jones take a break from cleaning to have a little fun, posing in the window of the karate school in Aliquippa. DiPietrantonio, a resident assistant, and Jones, a new student, joined fellow Penn State students and staff, community members and artists to clean up and add color to a few blighted city blocks along Franklin Avenue on Saturday, Aug. 20.
