School of Transportation & Natural Resources Technologies News Articles

Fred S. Barberra (in jacket) and Daniel A. Endy (in orange vest) lead students on a Valley Crest tour. From left, Nicholas D. Foreman, of Rockwood; Jonathan L. Rishel, of Milton; and Tyler J. Fatzinger, of Catasaqua, enjoy the unique stone couch and chair at Chanticleer Gardens.

A channel system, used for lettuce-family plants, uses the “nutrient film technique” and can grow more than 10,000 heads of lettuce annually. Photo by Noelle B. Bloom. Salads around campus now feature garden-fresh tomatoes, even in winter.

Bloodmobile held at ESC Twenty-eight pints were collected during Monday's Bloodmobile visit to the Schneebeli Earth Science Center, the American Red Cross reports. As each pint of blood benefits three people, a total of 84 patients will be helped by the fall collection. Dennis F.

Employees in the General Services department at Pennsylvania College of Technology are supporting a scholarship established by one of their own.

The 34-foot trailer awaits visitors outside the Carl Building Technologies Center on Monday morning. D. Wayne Bender talks with students about sustainability in forest management. The exhibit includes an identification quiz about Pennsylvania hardwoods, with answers hidden beneath blocks fashioned from each of the species. Robert E.

Penn College students and faculty get a look at a 1969 Shelby GT500 Mustang convertible, with drag pack, owned by local collector and businessman Ronald Paulhamus. Automotive restoration students surround a true classic that recently arrived at the college from the Rolls-Royce Foundation Museum in Carlisle.

Enter Sandmen: Education doesn't get more hands-on than rubbing away rust and other imperfections. Kelvin A. Ortiz, a collision repair student from York (left) and Colin S. Geiger, an automotive technology major from Sunbury, prep the Lincoln for its ultimate cherry-and-white finish. Kelvin A.

The Gettysburg Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America has established a scholarship that will provide annual financial assistance to students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s two-year automotive restoration technology major.

A vintage automobile has been given to Pennsylvania College of Technology by a Centre County resident who used it to commute to classes at a predecessor institution 50 years ago. Galen Mellott, of Port Matilda, who attended Williamsport Technical Institute for toolmaking technology from 1962-64, donated a 1940 Ford for use by students in the college’s automotive restoration technology major.

There’s a new serviceman in the collision repair lab at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Working alongside students and faculty, he’s become just one of the gang. “Jesse” (his full name is Jesse James, of Wild West fame) is the service dog of Alfred M. Thomas II, associate professor of collision repair.