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Mookerjee, wearing black suit, white shirt and red tie, sits at a desk in his office.

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During his nearly four decades at Penn State Beaver, Rajen Mookerjee taught courses in money and banking, macroeconomics and countless sections of Introductory Microeconomics and Policy and Introductory Macroeconomics and Policy, which meant that almost every Penn State Beaver undergraduate student has had him as a professor in that time.

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Economics professor to retire, receive emeritus status

After 38 years at Penn State Beaver, Rajen Mookerjee, professor of economics, will retire June 28 and will receive emeritus status. Mookerjee joined Penn State in 1986 as an assistant professor of economics; he received early tenure and promotion to associate professor and attained full professor rank subsequently.  
Robin Bower stands with her book in front of a UTP sign

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Penn State Beaver Professor Robin Bower’s book “In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints” has been published by the University of Toronto Press (UTP).

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Richard Lomotey, associate professor of information technology at Penn State Beaver, is part of a team of researchers studying how artificial intelligence can provide information about social issues in relation to health and mental health.

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Researchers use AI, social media to identify health concerns

Researchers from Penn State University, the University of Saskatchewan and Dalhousie University have used artificial intelligence to mine information from X, formerly Twitter, to learn about the frustrations and concerns of people living with HIV and AIDS during the Covid pandemic.
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Penn State Beaver professor publishes works on medieval Spanish poetry

Penn State Beaver Professor Robin Bower's book “In the Doorway of All Worlds: Gonzalo de Berceo’s Translation of the Saints” has been published by the University of Toronto Press. Bower also served as a volume editor for “A Companion to Mester de Clericia Poetry,” part of the peer-reviewed handbook series called Brill’s Companions to Medieval Literatures and Culture will be published later this summer.