A free briefing on Radio Frequency Identification technology was held Thursday in the PDC Mountain Laurel Room. Major retailers such as Wal-Mart, distributors and the Defense Department are beginning to mandate the use of RFID, which tags and tracks items via radio waves. Two Penn College faculty members Jeffrey D.
Noncredit career training for several professions in the health-care field is being offered through Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Pennsylvania College of Technology. WDCE offers noncredit programs in radiology editor, medical language editor/specialist and medical assistant.
Pennsylvania College of Technology' s entry in the "Parade of Pigs" fund-raiser for James V. Brown Library's new children's wing soon will take its place in a display pen at the facility's future site along Market Street. The college is among about a dozen community-minded sponsors, each of which purchased a life-size fiberglass pig to decorate for the public art initiative.
Pennsylvania College of Technology was recognized among the nation's top 100 associate-degree producers in several categories in a special report published recently by Community College Week. The college was named sixth in the nation for producing associate degrees in engineering-related technologies/technicians, with 320 degrees granted in 2004-05.
Penn State Continuing Education at Williamsport announces its Fall 2006 graduate-course offerings: Master of Education in Adult EducationRequired Course ADTED 470 Introduction to Distance Education (3 credits)An introduction to the history, philosophy, organizations, learning theories and instructional procedures used in American and foreign distance education. Mondays, Sept. 11-Dec.
More than 280 students have petitioned to graduate in August from Pennsylvania College of Technology, which will hold a Summer Commencement ceremony at 11 a.m. Aug. 5 at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport.The student speaker for the ceremony will be Randolph W.
A documentary that includes a segment featuring one of this institution's most famous alumni was presented on The History Channel this month. The exploits of bush pilot Donald E.
Crews from the Camp Hill-based American Library Consultants this week began moving the contents of the Penn College Library to the Roger and Peggy Madigan Library across campus. The current facility will shut its doors Friday afternoon and remain closed until its magnificent successor opens Aug. 14. A public dedication is scheduled for Sept. 12. (Photos by Phillip C.
The Williamsport Hospital Campus of Susquehanna Health System is awarding Fall 2006 scholarships to 21 students at Pennsylvania College of Technology who were born at Williamsport Hospital. The hospital awards two full-tuition scholarships annually one to a female student and one to a male student enrolled in a School of Health Sciences major at Penn College.
The sixth annual NRM Golf Invitational, held July 12 at the White Deer Golf Course,raised about $5,000 to fund an endowed scholarship for Penn College's School of Natural Resources Management. Unfazed by rain and well-fed by Le Jeune Chef restaurant, 21 teams comprised of industry representatives and faculty/staff competed.
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