School of Sciences, Humanities & Visual Communications News Articles

A record number of Pennsylvania College of Technology summer camps, including four new offerings, will allow adventurous young women and men to explore the hands-on careers represented by the institution’s eclectic “degrees that work.” Students entering grades nine to 12 at the time of participation are eligible for an annual Summer Camp Scholarship to attend Penn College.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is renowned for its “degrees that work,” and for those needing additional flexibility to attain a degree from the college, online options abound. Online learning at Penn College offers more choices to students who are balancing work and family responsibilities.

Brittany R. Terpstra, a web and interactive media major from Jim Thorpe, has been chosen as the March “Student of the Month” at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Terpstra, described by her nominator as "putting herself 'out there' in a positive light," has served as the president and marketing coordinator for the Wildcat Events Board.

Alumni returning to their graphic design roots are (from left): Bigger, Cosgrove, Januchowski, Hoover, Gray and Chandler. Stephenson (right) chats up his former students prior to their panel discussion in the Bush Campus Center. Chandler shares insight into her real-world design experience. A roomful of future graphic designers listens to Januchowski’s sage advice.

Whyman shows her design utilized in an environmental application (on the wall leading to the lab). Keyser shares her branding ideas with the client committee. Exceptional student-produced inspirations Neff discusses logo variations. Bennett and fellow students also shared the view of their designs on the lab’s exterior windows.

In launching its new brewing and fermentation science degree, Pennsylvania College of Technology has enlisted the expertise of acclaimed brewmaster Timothy L. Yarrington. The Spring Mills resident will serve as an instructor for the new major, which begins in Fall 2017.

The Dunham Children’s Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology received $34,600 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Human Services through the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning. The funding comes in the form of a Keystone Stars Merit Award of $12,675 and a Keystone Stars Education and Retention Award of $21,925.

Stabley (left) and Easton N. Latranyi, of Danville, a senior in manufacturing engineering technology ... ... strategically place snowballs into eye-pleasing position. The final creation, topped with decorative twigs, outside the Bush Campus Center What better way to celebrate the first day of spring than by creating a snow sculpture? That’s what students in two of David A.

Joe S. Miller, an adjunct instructor of sociology and psychology classes at Pennsylvania College of Technology, assisted with supporting materials for the second edition of "Real World Psychology," published and released recently by Wiley, a global publishing company specializing in academic publishing. Joe S. Miller Miller worked on the publication’s lecture PowerPoint slides.

For more than 100 years, Pennsylvania College of Technology and its predecessors have tailored their curricular offerings to students’ dreams and employers’ needs. That responsiveness to businesses and their future employees – and the flexibility to foresee tomorrow’s jobs – will be on ample display at the college’s April 1 Open House.