Five months before contractors hung the siding on Penn State Behrend’s new Erie hall, they tested strips of it on an architectural mockup a 10-foot-tall model that was built to test the colors and fit of the materials that had been selected.
Nearly 1,000 new and transfer students joined the Penn State Behrend community this week. They had help moving in: More than 100 Welcome Week leaders and resident assistants carried boxes, clothes and totes to the new students’ rooms.