In 2012-13, Penn College and the Penn College Foundation received in-kind donations of equipment, technology, materials and supplies from business and industry for instructional purposes valued at $651,527 and cash donations totaling $969,708, for a total of $1,621,235. Donors included 758 alumni and 450 employees, who together contributed $381,582.
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. Dr. Kendra F. Boell, transfer from part-time/substitute Faculty to Clinical Director, Physician Assistant Program, School of Health Sciences; effective Jan.
"What's your favorite David Niven movie?" John Ratzenberger asked an audience of Penn College students Thursday, quickly proving that celebrity – even for an Oscar-winning box-office king of the 1940 and '50s – lasts about a generation at best. "It's not the actors, it's not the sports stars," he said. "They're just a little piece of the icing on the cake.
During Tuesday's basketball doubleheader against Penn State DuBois, Penn College officially began its Centennial Celebration for students. Free hot dogs and other awesome refreshments from Dining Services, as well as a great crowd – including more than 120 student-athletes from a number of Wildcat sports teams – were part of the celebration that honors 100 years of tradition and excellence.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, jointly authored a paper that was published recently in an international mathematics journal, Computational Methods and Function Theory. The paper, titled “Bounded Schwarzian and Two-Point Distortion,” was co-authored with two other mathematicians: Diego Mejia, of Universidad Nacional, Colombia, and C.
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. Brianna R. Helmick, transfer from casual part-time to regular part-time Waitstaff, Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, starting Jan.
Chad L. Karstetter Chad L. Karstetter will step back into the head coaching position for the Penn College archery program for the 2014 season.
Kenneth C. Kuhns, assistant professor of electrical technologies/occupations, oversees the work of a student in the on-site power generation major as he troubleshoots a commercial generator at I-TEC (International Technical Electric & Construction) in Montoursville.
Interactive art project installed in Campus Center Members of the Penn College community are encouraged to participate in Before I Die, a public art project inspired by the work of Candy Chang. Participants complete the sentence, "Before I die, I want to ..." on a white postcard and hang it in the Bush Campus Center's north hallway for public viewing.
Beginning a year that celebrates the institution's history while defining its future, President Davie Jane Gilmour opened the Spring 2014 semester – and Penn College's centennial – with an all-college address to faculty and staff. “It is all of us today – each of us in this room – who will determine how the beginning of the next 100 years is remembered," she said Friday morning.
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