Faculty & Staff Articles

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Pamela Godfrey , Food Service Worker, Campus Center, (regular part-time), effective Feb. 9

The current issue of American Jails features an article written by Pennsylvania College of Technology student Brandon J. Close and Jeremiah C. Gee, assessment coordinator for the college's School of Integrated Studies. The article details the inception and development of Penn College's Collegiate Association for County Correctional Education, a student organization founded by Close in Fall 2008.

William E. Mack has been appointed assistant dean of industrial and engineering technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Mack, who began his duties Feb. 2, comes to Penn College from Harrisburg Area Community College, where he most recently served as professor and coordinator for the Community Center for Technology and the Arts.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member recently presented two papers at the Autodesk University conference held in Las Vegas. Jeffrey D. Mather, assistant professor of drafting and computer aided design, presented "Working With Neutral Format Surface and Solid Models in Autodesk Inventor," one of 11 Autodesk Inventor "PowerTrack" sessions that were offered during the conference.

The following oped piece, written by President Davie Jane Gilmour, appeared in Feb. 8, 2009, editions of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. There was an uninvited guest at our new-year celebrations in 2009 – it was the growing concern about our economy and our future.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. William Mack, Assistant Dean of Industrial and Engineering Technologies, effective Feb. 2

The director of The College Store at Pennsylvania College of Technology was recertified in December by the National Association of College Stores. Matthew P.

Interested in seeing what Penn College instructors are doing when they are not instructing? Check out the Faculty Publications exhibit, on display in The Madigan Library from now to the end of March.

William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, co-authored a paper that was published recently in a scholarly journal. The paper, titled "Möbius Invariant Metrics Bilipschitz Equivalent to the Hyperbolic Metric," was published in June in Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, an electronic journal of the American Mathematical Society. Co-authors of the paper are David A.

(The following is drawn from remarks by Davie Jane Gilmour, Pennsylvania College of Technology president, during a Jan. 9 all-college meeting to begin the Spring 2009 semester.) Good morning and Happy New Year. I trust you all had a good holiday break and are ready to embrace a new semester and the year 2009.