Dr. Thomas J. Edward Walker, a professor of history and the social sciences at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been invited to sit at the Oxford Round Table at the University of Oxford in England next summer. The event will be held Aug. 1-6 at St. Antony's College of the University of Oxford. Dr. Walker, author of "Pluralistic Fraternity" and "Illusive Identity," took his Ph.D.
Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member Charles F. Kemnitz has been awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (Prose) for a submission from his proposed book describing the impact of uranium prospecting and mining in the Four Corners Area of the Southwest and his childhood experiences with Native Americans.
American Infrastructure Inc., a Worcester-based heavy-construction firm that employs 40 graduates of Pennsylvania College of Technology, will provide at least three scholarship awards annually to students at the College. Preference for the scholarships will be given to full-time students who are family members and/or employees of American Infrastructure and its member companies.
Dr. Guion S. Bluford Jr., a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, was the featured speaker at Pennsylvania College of Technology's Aviation Celebration commemorating 100 years of flight and 70 years of aviation education at the College.
Allison Transmission, Division of General Motors, and Penn Detroit Diesel-Allison donated $5,000 recently to Pennsylvania College of Technology in support of diesel-technology education for students and faculty training. Company representatives visited the School of Natural Resources Management at Penn College's Earth Science Center to make the check presentation.
A 1996 Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate, who died Sept. 27 while attempting to rescue a young swimmer at Ocean City, Md., is this year's selection for an Alumni Citizenship/Humanitarian Award at the College's Dec. 20 commencement exercises. Brian J.
The architect has been selected for a new library at Pennsylvania College of Technology that will be constructed with the aid of $7 million in state funding.
Four automotive programs at Pennsylvania College of Technology have been recertified for five years following on-site visits by teams of evaluators from the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation.
An initial class of 15 students has enrolled at Pennsylvania College of Technology's North Campus near Wellsboro to pursue training for careers in Practical Nursing. The 12-month vocational program will launch officially on Jan. 5, and plans call for subsequent classes of at least 15 students to be enrolled each January.
The noncredit-education/workforce-training arm of Pennsylvania College of Technology the Technology Transfer Center is getting a new name that better reflects its mission: "Workforce Development & Continuing Education." The new name will become effective Dec. 1. There will be no major changes in the noncredit programming and services provided, said Penn College President Dr. Davie Jane Gilmour.
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