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Ryan Jacobs Pitches Perfect Game

Ryan JacobsSenior Ryan Jacobs pitched a perfect game on April 14 – the first in the history of Penn State Behrend baseball.

Jacobs, of Port Vue, threw just 68 pitches in a 1-0 win over Mount Aloysius. He had six strikeouts in seven innings.

ROTC Battalion Wins MacArthur Award

The “Pride of PA” battalion of the U.S. Army ROTC – a unit that includes students from Penn State Behrend – has won a General Douglas MacArthur Award for excellence. The unit outperformed 40 others to earn the honor.

Jim Kurre

Kurre: GE layoffs 'a bitter pill to swallow'

Layoffs at GE Transportation, the largest employer in Erie County, could raise the county's unemployment rate by 0.6 percent, said Jim Kurre, professor of economics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie.