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The first Wildcat Wednesday of the new semester provided students with a convenient get-acquainted opportunity – in Penn College's trademark hands-on style.

On their first day in her Global Cuisines & Connections course, Chef Mary G. Trometter, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts, took students to The Gallery at Penn College, where they explored the current exhibit: “Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community Through Art.”

Penn College students and employees are invited to join state Rep. Jamie L. Flick (R-Lycoming and Union Counties) as he hosts a Human Services Expo and Speaker Series on Thursday, Sept. 7, on main campus. Open to the public, the event is designed to connect people with the services, programs and supports they and/or their families may need to live healthy, productive and fulfilling lives.

A follow-up report on Penn College's assistance in making this summer's Little League Baseball World Series run smoothly was broadcast on WNEP newscasts beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Two Williamsport-area nonprofits will again support one another during the Little League Baseball World Series, as budding culinary artists and paramedics from Pennsylvania College of Technology gain experience, and Little League players and fans benefit from their skill. The nationally televised series, scheduled Aug. 16-27, draws tens of thousands of spectators each day to the Little League World Series complex in South Williamsport, just a few miles from the Penn College campus.

Threatening skies delivered on their radar-green promise of a soggy Monday, but it wasn't enough to scuttle Penn College's proud prelude to the Little League Baseball World Series.

Helpful crews of students and staff delivered an expanded menu of activities and assistance during Welcome Week, easing new students onto their soon-to-be-familiar Penn College home. From Wednesday's check-in and move-in ... through entertainment and events that calmed the flutter of last-minute butterflies ... to Monday's start of classes, Penn College News photographers were there.

As if Welcome Week isn't epic enough, greeting new and returning students as they prepare to leave their mark on the invitingly blank canvas of a fresh semester. Thursday night's activities alone brought a soaking rain, a swag toss to the screaming (and standing-room-only) mass of Wildcat fans who poured into UPMC Field, remarks from President Michael J. Reed – whose birthday prompted a crowdsourced serenade – and, accenting the beauty of a campus in full flower, a rainbow!

Among the latest additions to the Pennsylvania College of Technology community are 17 new full-time faculty members for the 2023-24 academic year - many of them alumni.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Medical Imaging Club recently selected Tiffany Shaffer, a radiographic technologist for Evangelical Community Hospital, as its Preceptor of the Year.