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Students Move In, Bringing New Life to Campus

Liam Duffy took the right side of Niagara 205. He hoped his roommate wouldn’t mind.

Move-in day brings a million decisions: Bunk the beds? Share the router? Hang the Evgeni Malkin jersey, or the Fleury?

Duffy had come from Concord Township, in Ohio. He’d made two visits to Penn State Behrend before enrolling. Now he has his own bed here.

Penn State Behrend economist: GE job losses will 'pummel' Erie's economy

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.
Psychology students put research into practice to reduce peer mistreatment

Psychology students put research into practice to reduce peer mistreatment

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.

Wintergreen Gorge 2013 Penn State Behrend

Take a 2 minute stroll through Wintergreen Gorge

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.