Three teams from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, topped preseason polls for the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference. Competition begins Friday, when the men’s soccer team hosts Bethany at the Herb Lauffer Memorial Tournament.
The soccer team has the benefit of experience: Five seniors and three juniors will start for the squad, including senior Eric Hackworth, the AMCC Defender of the Year for 2012.
Students in the Master of Business Administration program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, scored in the top 3 percent on the most recent ETS Major Field Test, a national assessment of university programs.
Students take the exam during their final year of study, after completing most of a program’s required courses. Many of the questions are based on case-study scenarios and require knowledge of marketing, management, finance and managerial accounting.
New students had plenty of fun before classes got underway. Check out our Facebook album with 100 photos from this weekend's activities—zip line, ice cream social, design-your-own-T-shirts, smoothie bar, and much more. Thanks to our student photographer Sarah Jelinek!
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.
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.
