Events Articles

Prospective students, their families and friends will enjoy an opportunity to explore academic programs, student life, and campus facilities and services when Pennsylvania College of Technology holds an Open House on Sunday, Oct. 23. The event will be offered from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Just in time for Halloween, one of the nation's leading demonologists and star of Syfy's "Haunted Collector" will present a free lecture at Pennsylvania College of Technology. John Zaffis, known as "The Godfather of the Paranormal," will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium on West Third Street.

Depression Awareness Week (Oct. 14-21) wishes to bring hope and information about vital resources to those who suffer from depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide and other mental-health issues. The week's events also are intended to promote healing for those that have been affected in any way by suicide.

Pennsylvania College of Technology held a special Countdown to the Centennial homecoming from Oct. 6-9, a "Were You There?" celebration of the many milestones from its Williamsport Technical Institute roots through its transition into Williamsport Area Community College and its eventual growth into today's exciting home of "degrees that work."

A chili taste-off will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, in the Little Theater of the Acacia Club on Market Street in Williamsport. Contestants are requested to bring about 2 gallons of chili in a crockpot or other electric device (no cooking facilities are available). Rival chilis will be judged by students from Penn College's School of Hospitality.

Southern Italy native Sabrina LaRosa will lend her expertise to students during the next installment of the Visiting Chef Series at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

A University of Iowa engineering student who became a YouTube sensation with a speech defending gay marriage will bring his story to Pennsylvania College of Technology at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. Raised by a gay couple, Zach Wahls will offer his perspective of "What Makes a Family?" during a free, public lecture in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.

Alumni of Pennsylvania College of Technology and its forerunners, Williamsport Area Community College and Williamsport Technical Institute, are returning for a campus homecoming this weekend and sharing their stories as the college counts down to a milestone anniversary. A 2014 centennial will mark the 100th anniversary of adult-education classes on the site of its campus in Williamsport.

The effect on the local housing market from the natural gas industry and recent flooding was the subject of a state Senate Urban Affairs and Housing Committee hearing, convened Tuesday morning at Penn College's Thompson Professional Development Center. The committee, chaired by Sen.

Billionaire "oil man" T. Boone Pickens, the founder of one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States and chair of B.P.