• Red or Black: What Can You Learn About Entrepreneurship from Roulette

    Headline:  Red or Black: What Can You Learn About Entrepreneurship from Roulette Author: Giselle Liu yzl5979@psu.edu Roulette is not purely a gambling game. Statistic professors might’ve used roulette as an example analyzing the possibility, and there’s also a lot to learn from roulette about business no matter for students or businessmen. First thing first, a…

  • Downtown Erie Presents a New Sculpture Walk to Feature National Artists

    Headline: Downtown Erie Presents a New Sculpture Walk to Feature National Artists Author: Sanjana Bhawnani, A&E Editor Svb6108@psu.edu Erie, Pennsylvania is bringing to town a new public art project in the bayfront area that will hopefully be put up in June and is planning to run till August 2023. After years of sculptures of fish…

  • PA’s New Health Secretary

    Headline: PA’s New Health Secretary Author: Courtney Balcombe, News Editor Photo Attribution: Courtesy Gov. Tom Wolf’s Office On January 19th, President Joe Biden chose Dr. Rachel Levine to be his assistant secretary of health. “Dr. Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no…

  • Vice President Kamala Harris is Officially the Highest Ranking Woman Elected in the U.S. Government

    Headline: Vice President Kamala Harris is Officially the Highest Ranking Woman Elected in the U.S. Government Author: Alex Bowser On January 20th, Vice President Kamala Devi Harris was sworn in as the new Vice President of the United States, which makes her the highest ranking woman in the American governmental system, not to mention the…

  • Bidens Attempts to Halt Deportations for 30 Days- Blocked by Federal Judge 

    Headline: Bidens Attempts to Halt Deportations for 30 Days- Blocked by Federal Judge  Author: Madison Kwiecinski, New Editor On January 26t a U.S Federal District Judge, Drew Tipton, issued a temporary restraining order from the states of Texas against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security because they issued a memo instructing all immigration agencies to…

  • PA State Senate Votes on Amendment to Limit Gov. Constitutional Power 

    Headline: PA State Senate Votes on Amendment to Limit Gov. Constitutional Power  Author: Madison Kwiecinski, News Editor On January 26th, the PA Senate voted on a proposed constitutional amendment to limit the length in which a governor can declare future emergency disasters. Under current PA law, a Governor can declare an emergency for 90-days and…

  • Polymer Engineering and Science: Penn State Behrend’s New Engineering Major

    Headline: Polymer Engineering and Science: Penn State Behrend’s New Engineering Major Author: Alex Bowser, Science and Technology Editor   As the fall 2020 semester had come to a close, Penn State Behrend announced that they will be offering a new major: Polymer Engineering and Science (PES). Students of the PES program will learn how to…

  • For the First Time, Astronomers Watch a Galaxy Die

    Headline: For the First Time, Astronomers Watch a Galaxy Die Author: Courtney Balcombe, News Editor   For the first time, astronomers have witnessed a galaxy die. Galaxies start to die when the stars stop forming inside them. According to CNN, galaxy ID2299, which is nine billion light-years away, ejected almost half of its gases needed…

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