An expert in the social organization of online communities will be the keynote speaker at the spring banquet of the Sam and Irene Black School of Business at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
New class topics, including dinosaurs, music, snow creation, roller coasters, underwater robotics, and movie making, will be offered at this year’s College for Kids, the summer youth program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Included in the new offerings is “Survivor: Behrend Edition,” a class inspired by the popular television show of the same name. In the class, students will learn survival techniques while interacting with local search and rescue specialists.
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, presented ninety-six different awards to students and student organizations at the 65th annual Honors and Awards Convocation on April 27.
Danielle Ropp sat quietly toward the center of the table as her legs shook under the tablecloth, hidden from the audience seated in front. Her quiet demeanor, indicative of her anxiousness, would soon subside.
The team that scores first has an advantage in a National Hockey League game. That should be obvious: They are, at that point, winning.
The extent of that advantage, however, depends on when the goal is scored. If it comes at any point in the first two periods of a game, the probability that the team scoring first will win is 66.7 percent, said Samantha Key, a mathematics major at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
A statistical analysis of NHL scoring patterns has found a clear advantage for the team that scores first: They win 66.7 percent of the time, according to Samantha Key, a senior at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.