Poet and essayist Lia Purpura will be the featured writer at “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” when the program returns to Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7.
Job losses at GE Transportation will 'pummel' Erie's economy, said Jim Kurre, professor of economics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie. The region's economy has endured worse setbacks, however, and other economic indicators -- the interest-rate spread and the S&P 500 Index -- suggest modest growth locally in the months ahead.
That depends on what’s on it. Most are teeming with bacteria: staph, E. coli, Enterococcus and sometimes even Salmonella. That stuff can make you sick.
Erie-region employers have cut more than 1,000 jobs since early 2012, according to the latest Erie Leading Index, which tracks manufacturing hours, freight shipments and other economic indicators through March.
As adults, we tend to think we know what’s best for kids. We’ve been there, done that. And we know how to handle bullies.
Or do we?
Few escape high school unscathed by the effects of some type of bullying. Many carry bully baggage into adulthood, sporting emotional scars made worse by well-meaning adults who advised, “just ignore it and they’ll leave you alone.”
Ignoring it didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now.
The Wintergreen Gorge is a 3,980-foot-long, 250-foot-wide chasm on the edge of the campus of Penn State Behrend. The gorge is estimated to have been formed more than 11,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, when rushing water below the melting iceberg carved through shale and sandstone on its meandering path to Lake Erie.
Today, the gorge is a popular destination for hikers, birders, naturalists, fossil-hunters, and waders who want to cool off in the creek.
The Early Learning Center at Penn State Behrend has maintained its accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Only 8 percent of all preschool programs earn the distinction.
Psychology students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, visited Erie Day School for six weeks this spring to teach children how to best handle peer aggression. Their work was based on a three-year study by Charisse Nixon, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Behrend will operate a new, expanded Erie Planetarium, which will be located in the School of Science complex. The system, which includes a projector and a 30-foot fiberglass dome, will be moved from the Watson-Curtze property on West Sixth Street, where it has operated since 1959, sometime in the first half of 2014.
The planetarium’s current director, Jim Gavio, will continue to develop astronomy programs for the system. He will be a Penn State employee.
