Students beginning their classes in Fall 2024 at Pennsylvania College of Technology are offered a special discount for taking a trio of in-person courses this summer. The “Jump-start Your Future” program is giving a 50% discount for students who enroll in developmental math, English and First Year Experience classes during the eight-week Summer 2024 session that runs Mondays through Thursdays, June 11 to Aug. 1, at the college’s main campus.
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Pennsylvania College of Technology a Title III Strengthening Institutions Program Grant to implement a redesign of its math curricula that is poised to become a national model for best practices. For the first year of the five-year project, Penn College has received $416,236. Over the course of the project period, extending through the 2027-28 academic year, the grant will award the college $2,140,307, which is 100% of the total cost of the initiative.
Memorial services are scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 15, for Lyman “Bub” Milroy, a longtime member of the mathematics faculty at Pennsylvania College of Technology and its Williamsport Area Community College predecessor.
A memorial service is scheduled for Roger E. Davis, 82, a former member of the mathematics faculty at Pennsylvania College of Technology and its Williamsport Area Community College predecessor, who died Tuesday, Nov. 14, at his Trout Run home. Davis was a full-time faculty member from June 1966 until his May 2003 retirement as an associate professor; he returned to Penn College as a part-time faculty member from August 2003 to July 2012.
Private arrangements are pending for Michael Tyson, a longtime member of the mathematics faculty at Williamsport Area Community College and Pennsylvania College of Technology, who died July 17, 2023, at his home in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
During a 16-day experience in Italy, 10 Pennsylvania College of Technology students studied the country’s cuisine and hospitality culture through classes with world-class chefs and visits to the farms and factories where well-loved ingredients are produced.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has published a research paper titled “A metric that better approximates the hyperbolic metric” in a recent volume of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, a journal of the American Mathematical Society.
Barbara Fisher Di Marco has been appointed interim assistant dean of arts and sciences at Pennsylvania College of Technology, effective July 26. Di Marco most recently served as an assistant professor and co-department head of mathematics at the college. She was honored with an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020. “Ms.
Mathematics faculty members Ed Owens, associate professor, and Lisa D. Jacobs, instructor, piloted an experiment to help students who were struggling in mathematics courses by adding a lab component to a math class that is required in many majors. In the five years since, the percentage of students passing the course has soared.
Laurie K. Kiss, an assistant professor of mathematics, died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, at the age of 54. Kiss, characterized as a "lifelong learner who shared her passion for learning by teaching," was a member of the Penn College faculty since the Fall 2009 semester. She also served as a co-adviser to the college chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society for associate degree students.
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