A Penn State Behrend student investment team won the first round of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Research Challenge, beating teams from Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh, among other schools. The team advances to regional competition in Chicago in April.
From left, Greg Filbeck, professor of finance, poses with members of Penn State Behrend's CFA Research Challenge team: Samantha Chiprean, Kelsey Schupp, Eric Frei, Ricky Grullon, advisor Josh Armstrong and Drew Barko.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is ranked No. 24 in the nation and made up mostly of freshmen. Given that, the team’s future seems very bright.
But head coach Dave Niland is not taking the recent success for granted. He’s focused on the present. A big reason for that, both literally and figuratively, is Zane Hackett.
The Erie region’s economic recovery stalled in late 2015, and planned layoffs at GE Transportation, Lord Corp. and other major employers could make conditions even rougher, said Ken Louie, director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie and an associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend’s Black School of Business.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is ranked No. 24 in the nation and made up mostly of freshmen. Given that, the team’s future seems very bright.
The Penn State Behrend men’s basketball team is ranked No. 24 in the nation and made up mostly of freshmen. Given that, the team’s future seems very bright.