The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
Imagine the mathematicians at dinner, splitting the bill.
“Several of us ate at the hotel last night,” said Jorge Martinez, a University of Florida professor who traveled to Penn State Behrend, for the 16th annual conference on Ordered Algebraic Structures. “It developed, as those meals often do, into a sort of family dinner.”
SKF Aerospace, a leading global supplier of bearings, seals and structural components for aviation engines and frames, has partnered with Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, to develop an applied-research aerospace center at Knowledge Park.
Analyzing how a company operates is an important part of any MBA program. Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) takes this educational analysis a step further by involving iMBA students in real-world learning.
After six months of trading, the Intrieri Family Student-Managed Fund at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has posted a $12,000 profit. That matches the performance of the S&P 500 over the same period.
“I’m impressed,” said Hunter Holzhauer, assistant professor of finance and a member of the fund’s advisory board. “They’re right with the benchmark. They’re doing as well as the professionals.”
A NASA-led team of astronomers has discovered five new planets, two of which are a habitable distance from their star.
“It’s the system that most resembles the Earth’s,” said Justin R. Crepp, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame and a 2003 alumnus of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. “These are the smallest planets we have found so far in a habitable zone.”
The Penn State Behrend supermileage team has again won the Society of Automotive Engineers' International Supermileage Challenge. The team's carbon-fiber test car got 1,290 miles from a single gallon of gas during the competition, which was held Thursday and Friday at the Eaton Corporation's test track in Marshall, Mich.
Penn State Behrend has again won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Presidents Cup, which honors the best overall athletic program. The college has won the award every year since 2005.
The Presidents Cup is presented to the institution that accumulates the most points in conference competition among the 15 sponsored sports. Rankings are based on regular-season order of finish and performance at conference tournaments.
Penn State Behrend graduates earn, on average, $46,900 in their first year of work – the second-highest rate in the state, according to a new study by the Online College Database.
The site ranks colleges and universities in all 50 states, helping students and parents find the right fit. The new study ranks institutions according to return on investment, weighing the amount students pay to attend against their average salaries after graduation.
When his partner cut the frog open, Jimmy Lucas got a whiff of preservative: a stinky, nose-crinkling chemical odor.
The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
Imagine the mathematicians at dinner, splitting the bill.
