The four games created by students at Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College, last week were inspired by the sound of a heartbeat – the
assigned theme for this year’s Global Game Jam, an annual hacker
marathon – and by a ticking clock: The teams had just 48 hours to
create, code and upload their games, which anyone can now play.
Penn State Behrend students already have raised $14,000 for this
year’s THON, which begins Feb. 16. To contribute, go to www.thon.org,
click “Donate Now,” and select Behrend as your organization of
choice.
The patient — a young man — is bleeding from his forearm. His pupils are dilated, and his blood pressure is dropping. His student nurse quickly assesses his condition and decides her first priority is to stop the bleeding. She applies pressure to the wound.
With a growth rate of nearly 10 percent annually, sales projected to reach $6.55 billion this year, and an estimated 100,000 jobs, the medical plastics sector in the United States is a flourishing industry.
Engineers don’t normally find themselves being drooled on at work, but it comes with the territory when your “client” is a 1,900-pound draft horse with a sweet tooth. The horse, Fargo, thought Joseph Hirn, the software engineering student standing next to him, might have a peppermint in his hand; Fargo reached down to find out. Software engineering senior Joseph Hirn worked on a program that will help Frog Pond Farm rescue draft horses, like Fargo, above, from slaughter.
Presque Isle State Park in Erie is under siege. Invasive plant species are pushing out the native species and that spells trouble for the insects, animals, and microorganisms that rely on native plants. It’s an epic battle that has ensnared the park’s trees in the vines of Oriental bittersweet, filled the wetlands with Phragmitesaustralis, and clogged paths with garlic mustard.
U.S. unemployment likely will still be above 7 percent by the end of 2014, a top U.S. banking official said during a conference at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.