For a moment, with the bases loaded and a 3-2 count on the batter, fans of the Cleveland Indians, up three runs in Game 1 of the World Series, held a collective breath.
They knew what was coming. So did the batter, David Ross. He’d caught for Andrew Miller in a previous World Series, when both were in Boston.
Baseball fans have long believed that left-handed pitchers have an advantage. They might, says Clare Porac, a professor of psychology at Penn State Behrend, but not just because they're rare. Batting averages are lower when more lefties are throwing, she says.
Will Allen operates Growing Power, the nation's preeminent urban farm. He will discuss his work there, and his book, "The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People and Communities," when the Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend resumes Nov. 9.
When WQLN Public Media developed a new television series highlighting innovators, entrepreneurs and high-tech collaborations in Erie County, producers knew where to look first: The series, “Reach Innovation,” launched with a 30-minute program that focuses on Knowledge Park, a 125-acre technology complex operated by Penn State Behrend.
The 43 muscles in your face can form 10,000 unique expressions. Ehsan Hoque, a 2004 graduate of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, programmed a computer to interpret all of them – and then teach you to do better.
Penn State Behrend has partnered with Gannon University to co-host the 46th annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference at Erie’s Bayfront Convention Center. The four-day event, which began Oct. 12, is the leading international forum for presentation of ideas and developments in engineering disciplines. Engineers and educators from 25 countries are participating.
Got mad pumpkin-carving skills? We want to see ‘em. Through October, post photos of your Penn State and Behrend-themed jack-o-lanterns to Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram.The student who posts the best pumpkin will win a $25 Amazon gift card. Here’s how to enter:
When WQLN Public Media developed a new television series highlighting innovators, entrepreneurs and high-tech collaborations in Erie County, producers knew where to look first: The series, “Reach Innovation,” launched with a 30-minute program that focuses on Knowledge Park, a 125-acre technology complex operated by Penn State Behrend.
Even now, five years out of office, former U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis hears the complaints.
All the good jobs are gone. Health-care costs are too high, and it’s Obama’s fault, or the insurers’, or maybe it’s the CEO, with a gold-plated pull-toggle on his retirement parachute. What does he care about us?
In a Sept. 27 talk at Erie’s Jefferson Educational Society, Penn State Behrend Chancellor Ralph Ford laid out the vision for an innovation ecosystem, an active network of innovators and entrepreneurs backed by educational, industry and government partners. In addition to guiding start-up companies, which often falter as they move from prototypes to full commercialization, such networks benefit the communities that host them, Ford said.
