Besides the 19 conference championships, the campus boasts 80 USCAA All-American and 187 PSUAC All-Conference players in the last 10 years. And the campus’ only club sport, inline hockey, won the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Roller Hockey League championship in 2015. “You don’t want to be the program that isn’t doing well,” said women’s basketball coach Tim Moore.
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, women hold a disproportionately smaller share of of STEM undergraduate degrees, particularly in engineering. And while half of the country’s workforce is women, only a quarter of the jobs in STEM belong to women. Female STEM professors at Penn State Beaver are trying to change that.
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.
