Tine Liu, Town&Gown

John Gardner looks around his new office and laughs. “Sorry, I didn’t get the time to put up anything on the walls yet, been busy,” he says.   When Gardner sits down to talk during one September afternoon, it has been only about a month since he became State College’s new police chief…

According the Penn State Small Business Development Center director Heather Fennessey McWhorter, the success rate of start-up businesses locally increased from 20 percent to 80 percent. The SBDC is an institution that provides education and information specifically to young entrepreneurs. Under the SBDC leadership, Penn State has grown to be a proud partner and…