Penn State Behrend's campus garden has become an important source of community-based education and engagement. In addition to cultivating the garden, the students host hands-on activities for young people to help pass on their knowledge about food and food systems.
A University grant is helping the Beaver campus to expand its agriculture and food-related initiatives, including a campus garden, community-supported agriculture and a 96-foot-long high tunnel.
A Penn State Strategic Plan seed grant is helping the Beaver campus to expand agriculture and food-related initiatives, including a campus garden, community-supported agriculture, and a 96-foot-long high tunnel.
Penn State Beaver's six-week, summer drawing class encourages students to test the limits of their creativity and develop critical thinking skills. Here, Dual Enrollment student Steven Zorbas, left, and PaSSS student Elizabeth Cummings draw a still life.
Penn State Beaver's six-week summer drawing class encourages students to test the limits of their creativity and develop critical thinking skills. Here, Dual Enrollment student Steven Zorbas, left, and PaSSS student Elizabeth Cummings draw a still life.
A delegation from Penn State's western campuses stopped at the Catholic University in Lille, France. Pictured here, left to right, are: Céline Blondeau, Vice Dean of Management, Economics, and Sciences at Catho, Lille; Bernice Cerasaro, Assistant Teaching Professor in Business at Penn State Greater Allegheny; Yang Xu, Associate Professor of Business at Penn State New Kensington; Dan Smith, Assistant Teaching Professor of Business at Penn State Beaver; and Véronique Flambard, rising Vice Dean at Catho, Lille.
A delegation from Penn State's western campuses stopped at the Catholic University in Lille, France. Pictured here, left to right, are: Céline Blondeau, vice dean of management, economics, and sciences at Catho Lille; Bernice Cerasaro, assistant teaching professor in business at Penn State Greater Allegheny; Yang Xu, associate professor of business at Penn State New Kensington; Dan Smith, assistant teaching professor of business at Penn State Beaver; and Véronique Flambard, rising vice dean at Catho, Lille.
More than 70 students from four Beaver County school districts - including Emily Tran, left, and Jennifer Vo - participated in W.I.S.E. UP, a day of STEM-related workshops and panels for seventh-grade girls.
Garett Schefler, center, and Evan McStay, right, speak with fellow Penn State Beaver graduates after the spring 2018 commencement ceremony. Schefler and McStay will both begin full-time jobs at FedEx this summer.
