Car enthusiasts will join their motorcycling counterparts this year for a tour through the scenic northcentral Pennsylvania countryside on the Third Annual "Pride Ride" at Pennsylvania College of Technology on Sunday, May 6. What had been a motorcycles-only event to raise money for the Pride Ride Scholarship Fund at Penn College, has been expanded this year to include car entries.
Pennsylvania College of Technology President Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour announced Friday that the College is suspending regular credit programming at the North Campus at the end of the current semester, due to declining enrollments. All other operations at the campus, near Wellsboro, will be continued.
The U.S. State Department has awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to S. Layne Russell, an attorney and assistant professor of legal studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology, who will use the opportunity to explore a "new legal era" in Slovenia, a country that broke away from the former communist Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991.
Pennsylvania College of Technology students won three first-place and three second-place medals at the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Timber Sports Annual Woodsman Meet, held March 31 at Clifton Forge, Va. At the event, hosted by Dabney S. Lancaster Community College, Penn College finished third overall.
For the 11th time in 17 years, Pennsylvania College of Technology has won the Mid-Atlantic Horticulture/Landscape Field Day competition, held this year at Penn College's Earth Science Center near Allenwood.
Ten students from Pennsylvania College of Technology took home first-place honors recently in the statewide SkillsUSA-VICA competition at Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Champion. All 10 will compete in the national SkillsUSA-VICA championships, to be held June 25-30 at Kansas City, Mo.
Students in the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society chapter at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently collected pet supplies for donation to the Lycoming County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, one of many such community-service projects the group performs.
Joanna Michelle Treese, food service manager at the Bush Campus Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been chosen to attend a National Association of College and University Food Services Leadership Institute at Russellville, Ark., on June 2-8.
Barbara J. Albert, group leader at the Children's Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been awarded a Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation Child Care Teacher Recognition Award for her commitment to quality child care. The honor, which was bestowed April 4 in King of Prussia, includes a $500 grant to the Children's Learning Center for the purchase of a digital camera.
A former cable access cooking series is gaining access to public television viewers in all parts of the country while continuing to rely on its original ingredients for success: practicality and fun. "You're the Chef," a co-production of Pennsylvania College of Technology and PBS-member station WVIA, is sharing its refreshing menu of culinary basics and good times to millions of households.
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