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The chimney stack entrance sign at the front of the Beaver campus.

entrance sign

Senior Instructor Jim Hendrickson and two of his engineering students, Leah Berry and Nicole Chemini, used maker lab tools and a little resourcefulness to save this iconic campus sign from demise.

Campus entrance sign with pond and amphitheater in background.

Beaver campus entrance sign

When the P and the B from Penn State Beaver’s iconic “chimney stack” entrance sign went missing, the campus called on Senior Engineering Instructor Jim Hendrickson and two of his students to find a fix.

Alexa and Nick Di Pietrantonio pose with a sheep on a mountaintop.

Di Pietrantonio family Penn State Beaver

Penn State Beaver student Alexa Di Pietrantonio and her father, Penn State Beaver staffer Nick Di Pietrantonio, pose with a new friend on a European mountaintop. Alexa, a communications major, studied in Vienna, Austria, during the spring 2017 semester; her family joined her later for a summer vacation.

An aerial view of the construction of an enthane cracker plant.

Beaver County Shell Plant construction

The Beaver County Economic and Environmental Speaker Series will focus on the construction of Shell's cracker plant, seen here, the closure of the Little Blue Run Coal Combustion Disposal Area and the impact of hydraulic fracturing.