The March 23 installment of the Finance Speaker Series at Penn State Behrend will focus on "Hot Topics in Today's Markets," including Wall Street's response to nonestablishment presidential candidates. The program is free and open to the public.
Happy Valley LaunchBox is accepting applications for its second cohort for summer 2016. Interested business startups may apply online and will participate in a competitive selection process. The application deadline is March 25.
For more than four months, Kolby Duer and Gary Langer-Williamson worked on crafting the perfect bottle rocket to enter into the 2016 regional Science Olympiad.
Dick’s Sporting Goods just cut $100 from the sale price of an Easton Fastpitch TORQ-handle bat.
The better bargain, says Kelsey Schupp, who has studied the company’s financials for the past six months, could be Dick’s stock, which on Feb. 19 sold for $38 a share. It should be closer to $50, she believes.
A Penn State Behrend student investment team won the first round of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Research Challenge, beating teams from Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh, among other schools. The team advances to regional competition in Chicago in April.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is ranked No. 24 in the nation and made up mostly of freshmen. Given that, the team’s future seems very bright.
But head coach Dave Niland is not taking the recent success for granted. He’s focused on the present. A big reason for that, both literally and figuratively, is Zane Hackett.
The Erie region’s economic recovery stalled in late 2015, and planned layoffs at GE Transportation, Lord Corp. and other major employers could make conditions even rougher, said Ken Louie, director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie and an associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is ranked No. 24 in the nation and made up mostly of freshmen. Given that, the team’s future seems very bright.
The Erie region’s economic recovery stalled in late 2015, and planned layoffs at GE Transportation, Lord Corp., and other major employers could make conditions even rougher, said Ken Louie, director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie and an associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.