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This fall, Pennsylvania College of Technology will introduce its associate degree in exercise science, which grew from its former physical fitness specialist degree. The exercise science major provides an education in exercise physiology and human movement theory – or how the body responds to exercise.

Richard A. Knecht (background), director of Lycoming County Emergency Management Agency, watches as students Christopher H. Warney, of Williamsport, and Jamie L. Steer, of South Williamsport, take action. Shakeem J. Thomas (right), of Brooklyn, N.Y., joins Warney (left) and Corbin P. Snyder, of Harrisburg, in a busy downtown conference room.

Paul R. Watson, dean of academic services and first-year programs, welcomes employees to the First-Year Institute. The fifth annual First Year Institute was held May 30 for faculty and staff. The day’s activities provided participants with practical tools to reach and teach first-year students.

A $3,000 donation from PPL Corp. will benefit students in Pennsylvania College of Technology’s various electrical majors. Teri MacBride, PPL’s regional affairs director, recently presented the check to the college’s Institutional Advancement Office for use in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies’ Electrical Technology Program.

Myers, Matson-Warner and Mullner (from left) attach the ramp's trigger mechanism Thursday morning. Surveying with pride their know-how and craftsmanship, the students are joined by faculty member Troup (second from right). Matson-Warner demonstrates the starting ramp's ease of use, sending two cars on a brief parking-lot jaunt. (The maiden run was coincidentally witnessed by school dean David R.

Plastics employees from five states were schooled by industry experts and campus professionals when the Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology held its sixth annual Heavy-Gauge/Cut-Sheet Thermoforming workshop in May.

They didn’t bring home a trophy, but a contingent of talented Pennsylvania College of Technology manufacturing students returned from an international competition with a winning experience. Five months of the students’ intensive outside-of-class work culminated at the recent Baja SAE in Mechanicsville, Maryland.

The artist, who says he's not interested in "pretty pictures" but in art that tells a story about humanity and how we should live, explains his creative process … … to an attentive audience that was also treated to Smith's recitation of Tennyson's "Ulysses," the source of the exhibit's title.

Pennsylvania College of Technology physician assistant student Filippo D. “Flip” Borsellino, now looking forward to his final two rounds of clinical internships before graduating in August, encountered a doctor, a community – and a tragedy – that have helped to shape his goals as a health care provider.

3-D printing is much more than a buzz term at Penn College. The printers are a reality for students, who long have engaged in additive manufacturing in the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies. "They are driving the car instead of just looking at it from a distance in the showroom," says Eric K.