Dining Services partnered with Penn College resident assistants to host a Tasting Showcase. Dining Services cooks prepared several items focused on plant-based food options and Pennsylvania-sourced ingredients. Participants were asked to complete a survey to indicate what items they may be interested in seeing on college menus.
On Monday evening, Ellyn A. Lester, assistant dean of construction & architectural technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology, appeared on WVIA-TV’s “Women Building the Future,” an episode of the “Keystone Edition: Business” program.
Ellyn A. Lester, assistant dean of construction & architectural technologies, will be a panelist on WVIA-TV’s “Keystone Edition: Business” program. The episode, “Women Building the Future,” premieres Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. on the PBS affiliate for Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania.
Recruitment during Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Spring Career Fair reflected the school’s 97.7% overall graduate placement rate. More than 300 companies – from Fortune 500 corporations to regional businesses – attended the March 4-5 event, offering ample full-time employment and internship opportunities. About 1,230 students engaged with employers in the college’s Bardo Gymnasium and Field House.
WNEP-TV reported on today’s Penn College Regional Anatomage Tournament, which brought 20 teams from 12 Pennsylvania high schools to campus to test their anatomy skills. The local ABC affiliate interviewed the college’s Elizabeth S. Gizenski, director of surgical technology, as well as an Anatomage representative and a student from Benton High School.
A faculty-alumni collaboration is resulting in a new brew to be released next week during Spring Break. Penn College brewing & fermentation science grad Devin (Shellhammer) Smith, head brewer at Clarion River Brewing Co., asked her former instructor, Timothy L. Yarrington, to partner on crafting a traditional British beer.
Read the Spring 2025 edition of Penn College Magazine, featuring the feats of the Diesel Performance Club and its lightning quick “Accelerated Learning” Mack truck; the Hall of Fame-worthy tool collection of Eric L. Anstadt, assistant professor of electrical technology/occupations; the Clean Energy Center’s expanding reach; the architecture & sustainable design program’s past and present, and much more.
“Bringing Nature Back: One Yard at a Time!” is the title of a day-long workshop set for Saturday, March 15, in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Klump Academic Center Auditorium. Featuring talks by two Penn College employees, the event is presented by Penn State Extension Master Gardeners of Lycoming County in partnership with the Responsible Decarbonization Alliance.
March winds and refreshing perspectives breezed through campus, welcoming an eager crowd of visitors to Pennsylvania College of Technology on Saturday. The first Open House of 2025 offered awe-inspiring explorations and potential pathways around every corner. Penn College hosted nearly 1,500 prospective students and guests across its three campuses.
Penn College’s baking & culinary program – under the lead of Chef Frank M. Suchwala, associate professor of hospitality management/culinary arts – prepared two of the five soups featured in the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank’s Ladles of Love fundraiser. Students in this semester’s Foundations of Professional Cooking class spent much of their Wednesday session making the soups: 10 gallons each of smoked tomato basil soup and wild mushroom bisque.
Get Penn College News in your inbox each morning.
Subscribe