A Pennsylvania College of Technology initiative focused on strengthening education and employment outcomes for individuals returning to their communities after a period of incarceration has been awarded a highly competitive U.S. Department of Justice grant for $866,188.
The Community Arts Center received a $1,000 donation from Susquehanna Community Bank as part of the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program. The funding will go to support the Educational Series performances offered to students in the area. “Susquehanna Community Bank is grateful for the partnership with the CAC and is pleased to support their youth educational programs,” said Mike Loeh, vice president/relationship manager/commercial services manager, Susquehanna Community Bank.
Likened to "a campfire conversation among friends," the latest episode of Penn College's Tomorrow Makers podcast gamely explores the creative process in all of its glorious manifestations: art, poetry, design, music, storytelling. Industrial design professor Thomas E. Ask and one of his students – Nick A. Flores, of Alexandria, Virginia – talk about making something from nothing, individually and collaboratively, and dare to confront the AI elephant in the room.
Engaging emissaries from Pennsylvania College of Technology will again be part of the winter celebration of the commonwealth’s agriculture industry and those whose lives and livelihoods depend on it. Students and employees from the college will travel to the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg from Jan. 6-13 for a variety of activities that reflect this year’s theme of “Connecting Our Communities.”
“Black and white photography is alive and well!” heralded Mark W. Wilson, instructor of graphic design at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Proving the point, Wilson’s Fine Art Photography (PHO 210) class is exhibiting works on the second floor of The Madigan Library.
Third-year architecture students created and, on Thursday, presented their final projects: physical mockups developed from the best-drawn wall sections created using SketchUp design software. "A great experience it was," said Rob A. Wozniak, associate professor of architecture, whose 18 students in his Detailing & Applications class (BSD 340) were divided into three teams.
In the only on-court action of the week, the Pennsylvania College of Technology women’s basketball team split its two games.
Wood engravings crafted by David M. Moyer, assistant professor of graphic design at Pennsylvania College of Technology, continue to garner attention, as the faculty member recently added two exhibitions to his extensive roster of art shows. “Utopia,” an accordion-fold book featuring original calligraphy and 16 wood engravings, was selected for The Book as Art exhibition at Decatur Library in Georgia, and three of Moyer's wood engravings were accepted into a gallery show in Bulgaria.
Xochitl Gomez and Val Chmerkovskiy, winners of the first-ever Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy as Season 32 champions, will be part of "Dancing With the Stars: Live" when the tour comes to Williamsport's Community Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 23.
The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors on Thursday approved the hiring of a vice president for academic affairs and provost and accepted audited financial statements for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2023. The board also approved an investment policy and a list of banks appropriate as depositories of college funds.
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