Shawn A. Kiser, Penn College's director of dental hygiene, and Justin M. Ingram, assistant professor of biology, collaborated to provide hands-on recruitment at the 2017 Tioga County Health Career Awareness Day.
Dental professionals from across northcentral Pennsylvania attend the 16th annual Oral Health Conference in Penn’s Inn. Tom Viola, speaker, teacher, author and registered pharmacist, provides insight on pain management in the dental profession. The dental hygiene program hosted the Northcentral Pennsylvania Area Health Education Center’s 16th annual Oral Health Conference on Oct. 27.
The college’s Dental Hygiene Clinic takes on a new hue as students and faculty don pink gowns for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Penn College’s dental hygiene program helped to promote National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this week.
Penn College students gather with schoolchildren in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. On the steps of a school in Las Terrenas, Santo Domingo, Penn College students join a group of teachers and administrators. The students conducted clinics in four schools in four days at Las Terrenes. Jenna N.
Alumna Trena Dale returns to Penn College. With help from the Alumni Relations Office, the Penn College Student Nurses' Association recently hosted alumna Trena Dale. Dale has received two associate degrees from Penn College: a dental hygiene degree in 2001 and a nursing degree in 2011.
Occupational therapy assistant student Rachel N. Zimmerman, of Pine Grove, shows physician assistant student Zachary S. Kimble, of Bellefonte (acting as a hip-replacement patient who later in the simulation would have a stroke) and other students watching how to use a “reacher” to help with dressing. Observing is Christine A. Tilburg, clinical director of physical therapist assistant.
Pennsylvania College of Technology is renowned for its “degrees that work,” and for those needing additional flexibility to attain a degree from the college, online options abound. Online learning at Penn College offers more choices to students who are balancing work and family responsibilities.
Two graduates who work as educators in Harrisburg returned to their alma mater recently as Pennsylvania College of Technology’s 2017 Alumni Sweethearts. Robert A. and Megan L.
This year's Alumni Sweethearts: Megan L. (Miller) and Robert A. Brightbill Congratulations to Megan L. (Miller) and Robert A. Brightbill, winners of Penn College's 2017 Alumni Sweethearts contest. The Harrisburg couple met at Penn College in the early '90s and have been married for 22 years.
Free dental care – including sealants, fluoride varnish treatments, education and screenings – will be available to children ages 7-15 on Saturday, March 25, when Pennsylvania College of Technology will be a host site for the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists’ Association’s Sealant Saturday initiative. Sealant Saturday events are held across the state. The Penn College event will take place 9 a.m.
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