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A new $50,000 scholarship endowment will honor Colten Brown, a Penn State Behrend graduate who died in 2021. Brown, who transferred to Penn State as a junior, quickly became known as “Mr. Penn State Behrend.”
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Those experiences shaped his childhood, his career in forest and timber management, and a new gift to the college: The Jeff and Pam Kochel Undergraduate Research Fund for Biology, an endowed fund that will expand the undergraduate research opportunities for students in Behrend’s biology major.
“My love for the outdoors came from my mother, and my support for the student body came from my dad,” he said. “Put those together, and it results in a grant in biology.”
The endowment will defray the costs of undergraduate student research, including equipment, supplies and travel to academic conferences.