Faculty & Staff Articles

A call comes in from the Lycoming County Department of Public Safety’s 911 Center, reporting lost and injured hikers are in the woods on the property of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center. Fielding the dispatch are students enrolled in the college’s emergency management & homeland security major, who promptly set their training and skills into motion for a search and rescue full-scale exercise that also involves forest technology students.

An inspiring team effort took place recently with readings of “Meet Mason” by the Penn College men’s basketball team. In honor of Blindness Awareness Month in October, the team, their coach and the book’s author engaged children in various local settings, including the Dunham Children’s Learning Center at Penn College, Otto Bookstore in downtown Williamsport and Cochran Primary School. The “center” of this team dynamic is Mason Chapman, whose story is shared in “Meet Mason."

Information shared by Roy H. Klinger, instructor of collision repair at Pennsylvania College of Technology, is featured in a short video on The Weather Channel. The 1:19-minute piece, titled “Autumn Leaves Could be Eating Away at Your Car,” warns viewers that, “As beautiful as fall foliage is, those colorful leaves piling up on your car can cause serious damage, from stripping away paint to clogging your car’s air systems.”

Fun and fright frolicked across campus as the Penn College community celebrated Halloween with a big bucket-full of festivities in recent days. Among the boo-tiful bounty captured for this photo gallery were the Dunham Children’s Learning Center’s trick-or-treat parade, Dining Services’ creepy “Boofet,” the “Arc Asylum” haunted welding lab, a Wildcat Costume Party and a random sampling of campus characters dressed up to delight.

The Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology conducted a flurry of workshops in October, delivering training to 25 professionals, representing 14 companies, four states and Canada. The three workshops – Color Science & Weathering, Plastic Materials & Processing Fundamentals, and Rotational Molding & Advanced Materials – featured lectures and extensive hands-on experience in Penn College’s industry-standard labs.

Members of the Central PA Chamber of Commerce visited Pennsylvania College of Technology on Wednesday for an “Inside Jobs Tour,” one of the chamber’s monthly outings to educate members on area businesses and organizations. In addition to informative campus presentations and tours, the 22 guests enjoyed a lunch catered by Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.

Envisioning their lives after high school, special education students in grades 10-12 attended the annual Transition Conference, hosted recently by Pennsylvania College of Technology and BLaST Intermediate Unit 17. The event attracted more than 340 registrants from 19 area school districts in Bradford, Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan and Tioga counties.

The seventh annual Soup for the Soul event, benefitting The Cupboard at Penn College, raised over $1,350. Hosted by Dining Services on Oct. 24 in the area outside the Wildcat Express and The Cupboard’s main location in the Bush Campus Center, the fundraiser also featured tours of the food pantry that serves Penn College students facing food insecurity.

A 5K Glow Walk/Run is set for 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, on Penn College's campus. Organized by Alpha Chi National Honor Society, the event will start and end at the college’s Field House. On-site and virtual participants are welcome. Registrations are accepted through Nov. 12. The fee is $10 and will support academic excellence by offsetting new inductee fees for the honor society’s national chapter.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Diesel Performance Club has captured another first place in drag race competition. The club's 1959 B-61 Mack drag truck, known as “Accelerated Learning,” won top honors in the “Big Rig Auto” bracket at the October Truck Fest at Island Dragway in Great Meadows, New Jersey. That victory qualified the truck for the “King of the Island” bracket race, where it finished in second place.