The value of early childhood education is typically measured by school readiness: reading level, language skills and mathematical ability. The 2013 ERIE conference at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will approach the debate from an economist's perspective, with one basic question: Is there a measurable economic benefit to these programs?
The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
SKF Aerospace, a leading global supplier of bearings, seals and structural components for aviation engines and frames, has partnered with Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, to develop an applied-research aerospace center at Knowledge Park.
Analyzing how a company operates is an important part of any MBA program. Penn State’s online Intercollege MBA (iMBA) takes this educational analysis a step further by involving iMBA students in real-world learning.
After six months of trading, the Intrieri Family Student-Managed Fund at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has posted a $12,000 profit. That matches the performance of the S&P 500 over the same period.
“I’m impressed,” said Hunter Holzhauer, assistant professor of finance and a member of the fund’s advisory board. “They’re right with the benchmark. They’re doing as well as the professionals.”
A NASA-led team of astronomers has discovered five new planets, two of which are a habitable distance from their star.
“It’s the system that most resembles the Earth’s,” said Justin R. Crepp, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame and a 2003 alumnus of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. “These are the smallest planets we have found so far in a habitable zone.”
The Penn State Behrend supermileage team has again won the Society of Automotive Engineers' International Supermileage Challenge. The team's carbon-fiber test car got 1,290 miles from a single gallon of gas during the competition, which was held Thursday and Friday at the Eaton Corporation's test track in Marshall, Mich.
When his partner cut the frog open, Jimmy Lucas got a whiff of preservative: a stinky, nose-crinkling chemical odor.
The poet and essayist Lia Purpura will help lead the second “Earth’s Eye: A Festival of Writing in and of the Natural World” at Presque Isle State Park on Sept. 7. She will discuss, among other things, how to use details to improve a story – a skill she honed while hunting for beach glass.
Imagine the mathematicians at dinner, splitting the bill.
