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Jeff Erdly Members of the campus community – particularly students in construction-related majors – are encouraged to attend a lecture by Jeff Erdly, a 1972 graduate of Williamsport Area Community College and a world-renowned authority on building and masonry preservation, who will speak at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.

Students narrowing their occupational choices gained some real-world focus on Friday, as the Outreach for K-12 Office again hosted Career Day on Penn College campuses.

Members and guests of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce visited main campus in the midst of Penn College’s yearlong 100th-birthday celebration, encouraged to take a leisurely autumn stroll among the institution's three new outdoor art installations: the Centennial Mosaic, "These Trees" and "Student Bodies." The Chamber's latest PM Exchange, providing the area business community with an

Nearly 200 employers were on campus this week, looking to fill more than 2,000 positions from among Penn College's "degrees that work." At three sessions over two days, including breakout offerings for specific majors, employers (including a number of Fortune 500 companies and other industry heavyweights) sought interns and new graduates who are technically skilled and prepared to enter today’s wo

Homecoming 2014, a spectacular continuation of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Centennial celebration, made institutional history while honoring it. Marked by the first-ever campus carnival, the inaugural reunion for Williamsport Area Community College alumni and employees, and an Oktoberfest, "Then ... Now ...

As the latest Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member chosen to deliver the David London My Last Words Lecture, Jacob R. Miller shared a simple barometer of student success: "I would like to think that, at the end of every day, no matter what they have done that day, they can face themselves in the mirror." Drawing from life lessons, Jacob R.

Theoretical physicist and author of the award-winning novel “Einstein’s Dreams,” Alan Lightman, will speak at Pennsylvania College of Technology at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 as part of its Centennial Colloquia Series. Lightman is one of the first professors to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and humanities at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine" to be shown Monday in Penn's Inn A showing of the feature documentary, "Matthew Shepard Is a Friend of Mine," will highlight Penn College's observance of National Coming Out Day on Monday.

Homecoming event to benefit Running Without ED Pre-registration will be held Thursday for the following night's milelong "Glow Run," an after-dark Homecoming event that hopes to shed light on eating disorders. Advance signups will be accepted from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Hager Lifelong Education Center lobby, just outside the Keystone Dining Room.

David S. Richards David S. Richards, a professor of physics at Penn College, will discuss Alan Lightman's "Einstein's Dreams" during an on-campus reprise of his recent James V. Brown Book Review Luncheon at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Mountain Laurel Room of the Thompson Professional Development Center.