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World Campus iMBA students analyze a company during a one-week residency.

Penn State’s online MBA program to award merit-based scholarships

The job prospects for MBA graduates continue to look up, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council, which reports 90 percent of 2013 MBA graduates are employed. To make it easier for working adults to earn an MBA for career advancement, Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) program is launching merit-based scholarships.
College's literary journal helps Creative Writing students hone skills.

College's literary journal helps Creative Writing students hone editing skills.

If you want to know pressure, just try writing a creative story about Lake Effect, the college’s acclaimed student-run international literary journal.

Tap, tap, tap….backspace, backspace, backspace….tap, tap, tap….

Knowing your work will be read, dissected, and discussed by dozens of creative writing students and faculty members can give even the most confident writer pause.  Clearly, they are a group of people who know good—and bad—writing when they see it.

World Campus 15th anniversary symposium to be streamed live Dec. 2

In 1998, Penn State became one of the leaders in online education with the establishment of its online World Campus. Throughout this year, the University is holding a series of events to celebrate this anniversary. On Monday, Dec. 2, the University community is invited to participate in the symposium “Penn State World Campus — Past, Present and Future” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Penn State Public Media will stream the discussion live from The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel at http://wpsu.org/live/convocation13/.

Architects to Discuss Penn State Behrend Trail Project

The first public discussion of a $48,000 study of the trail system in Wintergreen Gorge, a wooded area on and adjacent to the campus of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will be held Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the college’s Reed Auditorium. Anyone with interest in the gorge – an area favored by local hikers, trail runners and mountain bikers – is encouraged to attend the meeting, which will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Nursing Program Names Award for Alyssa O'Neill

The nursing program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has renamed an annual student award to honor Alyssa J. O’Neill, a student who died in September after suffering a grand mal seizure.

O’Neill, 18, was a freshman at Penn State Behrend. She planned to enter the college’s nursing program at the start of her sophomore year.

No Sign of 'Double-Dip' Recession, Penn State Behrend Economist Says

A strong money supply and a spike in the hours worked by factory employees have helped the Erie-region economy avoid a dreaded “double-dip” recession, says Jim Kurre, director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie and an associate professor of economics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.