The Community Arts Center Board of Directors received a big surprise at its regular meeting Dec. 18, when the proceedings were interrupted by representatives of the Arts Center's 200-plus volunteer corps.
Explosive growth in Pennsylvania College of Technology's scholarship portfolio takes on new meaning with the establishment of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter for the Society of Explosives Engineers Scholarship fund. The chapter is making a $15,000 gift to the Penn College Foundation to establish the endowed scholarship. Foundation Executive Director Dennis L.
Pennsylvania College of Technology has received approval for a campus chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, the International Honor Society for Business, Management, and Administration. The Penn College Sigma Beta Delta chapter was officially accepted Dec. 3. Invitations will be extended to qualified students in February, and the first members will be inducted in April.
A new $13 million library to be constructed on the campus of Pennsylvania College of Technology will be named the Roger and Peggy Madigan Learning Resources Center, in honor of the state senator and his late wife. It was announced earlier Thursday that $7 million in capital budget redevelopment assistance will be provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to support the project.
Seventeen Pennsylvania College of Technology fall sports athletes have been given post-season awards. Ten received all-Pennsylvania Collegiate Athletic Association (all-state) accolades and the other seven earned all-Eastern Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference honors. Reaping all-PCAA awards were: Golf Matt Haile (freshman/Shikellamy) and Christian Scheller (freshman/North Pocono).
DuPont Performance Coatings will provide training and support materials for Pennsylvania College of Technology's Collision Repair program in its new home on the College's main campus. The program will be relocated to the former HON manufacturing facility, currently undergoing renovations for conversion to classroom and laboratory space.
Technicians who handle appliances containing federally regulated refrigerants may take their required certification exams online through Pennsylvania College of Technology. Under Federal Clean Air Act guidelines, all those who maintain, service or dispose of appliances containing regulated refrigerants must have Section 608 Refrigerant Transition and Recovery certification.
Anita L. Wagner of Muncy and William R. Miller of South Williamsport will be presented with Alumni Citizenship/Humanitarian Awards at Pennsylvania College of Technology's December Commencement ceremonies Dec. 21 at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport.
A member of the drafting faculty in the School of Construction and Design Technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology will be presented with a teaching award at the 14th International Conference on College Teaching.
No one wants to throw cash out the window, but in many homes today, money in the form of costly heating and cooling energy leaks to the outside, a situation that viewers of the "Penn College & You" December episode, "Home Weatherization," will learn how to rectify. The average U.S. family spends about $1,300 annually on utility bills, with 44 percent of that devoted to heating and cooling costs.
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