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Penn State’s new president, Neeli Bendapudi, stresses the need for students to value entrepreneurship in a talk at Penn State-Lehigh Valley on Wednesday.
Organizers say the annual "Shark Tank"-like event showcases the quality of life and business ownership for the hub, about an hour outside Philadelphia.
Penn State President Eric Barron and a panel of local and industry leaders and entrepreneurs appeared in Harrisburg on Nov. 9 for a hearing of the Pennsylvania Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee. Titled “Improving Pennsylvania's Innovation Economy: Invent Penn State,” the hearing focused on Penn State’s efforts to drive economic development, job creation, entrepreneurship and innovation, and student career success through the Invent Penn State initiative.
IMAGE: Beverley East “We were so pleased to have Beverley as a guest at the event,” Lehigh Valley Chancellor Tina Q. Richardson said. “Sponsored by St. Luke’s University Health Network, the night truly underscored the complicated journey of a professional woman and inspired all as Beverley shared some of her more noteworthy accomplishments in this highly specialized field.” East said she believes her career found her. After being selected out of 600 women for a headhunter position, she began to wonder what allowed her team to work together so efficiently and with such ease. She l...