2011 Articles

Students from North Penn High School participated in activities on campus Wednesday that included a nontraditional career-exploration activity with staff from Career Services, lunch in the Capitol Eatery and a session with representatives from the Admissions Office. The event was coordinated by the Outreach for K-12 Office through a Creating Access to Post-Secondary Schools grant from the U.S.

Around 100 third-graders from Cochran Elementary School in Williamsport spent time at Penn College on Wednesday, learning about some of the many careers that could be in their future. The students visited the School of Hospitality, where they watched a cake-decorating demonstration by baking and pastry arts students Ariel L. Woodring and Patricia A. Bennett and sampled the product.

Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour visited the Bird's Nest at the college's Children's Learning Center, where she read them a book titled "Whose Shoes?" You often can tell what a person does by the shoes he or she wears, and the children enthusiastically guessed the occupation that matched each pair of shoes in the book.

Master Falconer Cheri Heimbach, of Lewisburg, visited forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher's Wildlife Management class in the School of Natural Resources Management on Tuesday. She displayed a gyrfalcon, Harris's Hawk and a European owl during her classroom visit, and provided some flight demonstrations outside the Schneebeli Earth Science Center. Photos by Erich R.

Seven Pennsylvania College of Technology students recently presented research during a student poster session at the Mid-Atlantic Consortium for Human Services annual conference. The students, in their final semester toward earning bachelor's degrees in applied human services, made up the majority of the 12 student poster presenters at the conference, held April 1-3 at Corning Community College.

Four students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Construction and Design Technologies including a scholarship recipient participated in the April 14 meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers. Matthew B.

From April 29 to May 13, The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Design: 2011," a portfolio exhibition by seniors in the college's graphic design major. A culminating project of their college curriculum, the students' annual exhibition will feature posters, books, magazine spreads and logos.

With graduation and prom season just around the corner, the Bush Campus Center hosted a Fictitious Identification Training Session on Monday afternoon to give bartenders, bouncers and other licensees added pointers on fighting underage drinking.

All Pennsylvania College of Technology baseball coach Chris Howard and softball coach Roger Harris asked for was an opportunity for their teams to be able to practice and play. Although both still had to dodge raindrops last week, they managed to win a combined nine games while losing only one and are on track to reach the Penn State University Athletic Conference playoffs.

On one of the first garden-friendly days of the season, horticulture instructor Carl J. Bower provided a helpful primer on invasive plants and how to discern whether to nurture or nix that beautiful backyard growth. " Plants: Friend or Foe?" was the Spring 2011 Madigan Library Forum, held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Thursday in the second-floor reading loft.