The "Green Tip of the Week," from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Penn College's Energy Conservation Subcommittee, takes a peek at the holiday list that Mother Earth has worked up this year. It includes recycling leftover gift wrapping, giving energy-efficient products and finding a better way to Grandma's house. Think green and clean! (Contacts for this feature are Gail B.
Members of a recently formed student organization at Pennsylvania College of Technology and their adviser have provided Tioga County Prison with a new bookshelf packed full of educational materials. The students are members of the Collegiate Association for County Correctional Education.
Between 20 and 35 Penn College students are showing up on a given Sunday at Good News Bible Church in Cogan Station, including four graduating seniors honored during the Dec. 7 church service. The students expressed appreciation for the relationships they built within the local assembly, and the church presented each with a gift celebrating their participation.
A Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member recently presented papers and talks at three scholarly gatherings. On Nov. 1, Richard Sahn, instructor of sociology and psychology, presented a paper at the Pennsylvania Sociological Society's annual conference in Harrisburg. The paper was titled "Cognitive Dissonance and 9/11: Why People Reject the Inside Job Conspiracy Theory." On Nov.
Six members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's mathematics faculty recently offered presentations at the annual conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges. The conference, held in Washington, D.C., Nov. 20-23, featured more than 200 workshops and presentations for approximately 1,200 mathematics educators from the United States and Canada. Edwin G.
Students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's IEEE student chapter recently helped the family of the late Fallon Pardoe-Cartegena and the late Jarrod Neuhard raise $430 for the catastrophic loss fund of the American Red Cross of Upper Northumberland County.
Pennsylvania College of Technology, along with other state-related colleges and universities, has seen a second reduction in its 2008-09 state appropriation. This time, the college will lose $253,610 in appropriated funds ($229,303 from operating and $24,307 from debt-service funds).
Food Show photo gallery Pennsylvania College of Technology students raised more than $1,600 for Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity during the annual "House for a Home" chocolate house auction Dec. 5. The event was held during the college's Food Show, which showcases final projects of students from several School of Hospitality classes.
Taking two cars to the Society of Automotive Engineers Collegiate Design Series "Baja SAE Montreal" contest, Pennsylvania College of Technology finished respectably among more than 90 competing schools and is under way with plans for the 2009 contest.
About 40 participants braved Saturday's 25-degree temperatures for the first-ever Russell M. Trapp Memorial/Scholarship Jingle Walk/Run, honoring the founding director of Penn College's Physician Assistant Program and raising money for a scholarship fund in his honor. A summary of the event compiled by students Larissa D. Kryder, Physician Assistant Club vice president, and Nadja M.
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