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Students develop online marketplace.

Students develop online marketplace.

Go ahead and remove that futon from the end of your driveway. Dust off that business ethics textbook while you’re at it, too.

Thanks to a new student-developed website, members of the Penn State Behrend community are able to log online and exchange or purchase relevant textbooks, appliances, furniture and school supplies. The site, titled StudentTrade.net, also allows property owners to post and update student rentals.

U.S. News Ranks Online MBA among the Nation's Best

U.S. News & World Report ranks Penn State’s online master of business administration program the seventh-best in the nation, sharing a position with Carnegie Mellon University. U.S. News evaluated the programs using four criteria: faculty credentials, student engagement, admissions selectivity and student services and technology.

Physicists go with the flow in granular lab.

Physicists go with the flow in granular lab.

Every scientific research project begins with a question. But in the case of a project by Dr. G. William Baxter, associate professor of physics, it began with a mild case of heartburn.

“I was trying to shake some antacids out of the plastic container, but they were all clogged up in the top,” Baxter said. “I wondered what caused them to jam like that and if a different shape of pill or container would work better.”