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/.
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.
The problem with solar energy is that it’s expensive. Sunlight is free, of course, but the technology and mechanics required to turn that power source into useable energy is a costly investment that few consumers are willing to make, even if it’s better for the environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Papers and exams can be a point of stress for first-year students, but it’s not the kind of stress that Mike Wehrer knows.
Wehrer, a freshman communications major and current managing editor of the Behrend Beacon, is a member of the United States Air Force Reserves. The 23-year-old Girard, Pa., native spent a half year deployed in Afghanistan in 2011, and it’s safe to say college exams pale in comparison to some of the things that Wehrer experienced.
When she woke that morning, in the cardboard house with the cardboard roof, topped with the box from the pizza they’d bought, Charissa Ford did the sensible thing: She fled to a friend’s dorm room.
