Ken Louie, associate professor of economics at Penn State Behrend and director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie, tracks movement in the local economy. He saw signs of it slowing in late 2015.
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.
With a selfie station, free swag and one-on-one conversations, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, recently introduced the Stand for State campaign at launch events on Jan. 27. The initiative, launched University-wide the week of Jan. 25, uses a bystander intervention curriculum developed by Green Dot, a national violence prevention program.
TEDxPSUErie is an independent TEDx event sponsored by the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend. For more information, contact Dave Causgrove, lecturer in marketing and TEDxPSUErie curator, at [email protected].
Adam Winterbottom sat detached from his surroundings, blankly staring ahead at the wall in the Game Development Lab of the Jack Burke Research and Economic Development Center.
“Uh, maybe you should go get some sleep,” said Peter Kalmar, a senior computer science major and one of Winterbottom’s partners for Global Game Jam 2016.
Applications are now being accepted for speakers who would like to be considered for TEDxPSUErie, an independently organized TED event that will be held on the campus of Penn State Behrend. TEDxPSUErie is scheduled from 1 to 6 p.m. April 16 and carries the theme “Thinking Across Boundaries.” The event is designed to foster learning, inspiration and wonder by bringing bright minds together to discuss a variety of subjects.
