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Student Investment Group Feels Market Swings in Real Time

Stock Market courtesy: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay

As investors, business leaders, and consumers endured a recent roller coaster on Wall Street in which some markets lost more than 10% of their value, a group of ºÚÁÏÍø students received a real-world financial lesson. Members of the Golden Flash Asset Management Group (GFAM) began trading in 2018 and manage more than $1.4 million in university assets.   Kent State Today asked the group's members how they reacted to the news that the United States was adding tariffs and what lessons they learned while navigating uncharted financial waters. As student managers of ove...

Fire at Partner University in Brazil Disrupts Classes

PUCPR Building

A significant fire broke out at the Teatro Universitário (TUCA) of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR) in Curitiba, Brazil on April 15. ºÚÁÏÍø’s American Academy program operates on the PUCPR campus as part of the dual-enrollment partnership established between the two institutions in 2018. The damaged building does not house any American Academy classes, but is the home to the program’s commencement ceremony. The blaze, which reportedly started in an air conditioning unit before a medical student lab coat ceremony, prompted a campus-wide evacuation....

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