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MTV Entertainment Studios and Active Minds Announce National Campaign

/PRNewswire/ -- MTV Entertainment Studios (MTVE) has partnered with leading young adult mental health non-profit Active Minds to spearhead an innovative mental...

Students give back as they gain experience

In-state undergraduate tuition is going up this fall and next by 2% on Penn State University’s main campus, but will be frozen for Pennsylvania undergraduates both years on branch campuses statewide. University trustees, meeting Friday at Penn State Behrend in Erie, locked in 2023-24 and 2024-25 tuition schedules for the

Erie Digital News Now Highlights: June 28

Penn State Behrend’s track and field teams won the Colonial States Athletic Conference championships at Gallaudet on May 6 and 7. The men’s team claimed its seventh-consecutive title; the women won their fifth overall.

A new training program offered by Penn State Behrend’s Office of Community and Workforce Programs will prepare drivers for a Class A Commercial Driver’s License, or CDL. Classes begin June 5.

Trigon, as it was originally called, was founded around 1992 by Dan Ester, a student at Behrend. In 2017, the name was changed to GASE (The Gender and Sexuality Equality Club). The mission remained the same to provide a safe space for exploration and expression of ones gender and sexuality without judgment and to foster a healthy environment on campus for all people of all genders and sexualities.

About 100 students are heading to one local university campus to learn more about science and technology. Dozens of students are engaging in hands on “STEM” activities at Penn State Behrend’s campus. The event was free to the public. One professor said it’s a way of getting kids interested in science at an early age. […]

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