About 25 students in forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher's Wildlife Management class got hands-on exposure to birds of prey, as Master Falconer Cheri Heimbach returned to the School of Natural Resources Management this week. One of about 150 falconers in Pennsylvania, Heimbach brought along a Barbary Falcon, a Red-tailed Hawk, an Eagle Owl and a Harris's Hawk.
Expect your night to be just a little brighter on May 7, as DEV brings her "'The Night The Sun Came Up' Album Release Tour" to the Community Arts Center. Penn College students, faculty and staff can get tickets for $24 starting Monday at the Bush Campus Center's information desk.
Eleven Penn College students and their adviser recently traveled to Perryville, Ark., for an Alternative Spring Break with a nonprofit agency dedicated to ending hunger and poverty. The group worked with Heifer International, which provides livestock, trees, seeds and environmentally sound agricultural training to families in more than 50 countries, including the United States.
Senior Kyle S. Baker and junior David S. Price traveled to Wohlsen Construction in Lancaster on Tuesday as part of a continuing outreach effort on behalf of their four-year construction management major. After a project manager explained what construction management is, the Penn College students joined by building construction management instructor Brad M.
Green careers are the focus of the latest episode of "degrees that work.tv," an award-winning documentary series produced by Pennsylvania College of Technology and WVIA Public Media. Rewarding career possibilities in energy efficiency and renewable energy are explored during the show, which premieres throughout northeastern and northcentral Pennsylvania on April 12 at 8 p.m. on WVIA-TV.
Pennsylvania College of Technology was the recent host of FIRST Tech Challenge's Pennsylvania Championship Tournament, providing a home and a small army of volunteers for a day full of high-level robotics competition among high school teams from seven states. Thirty teams of enterprising ninth- to 12th-grade students, surrounded by supporters, filled Penn College's Field House on Feb.
Despite being a newcomer on the competitive scene, the 2011-12 Penn College dance team won first-place trophies in two recent appearances. On March 17, team members Kelsey A. Coppersmith, Kelly M. Daum, Brandy L. Krause, Samantha L. Lantz, Maggie K. Calkins, Melanie A. Roof, Melina C. Webb, Chelsey R.Whitaker and team assistant Liza J. Pritchyk traveled to Central Mountain High School.
Pennsylvania College of Technology students vied for their share of more than 2,400 full-time jobs and internship positions at the Spring Career Fair, impressing a variety of employers – including 26 Fortune 500 companies – at three locations: the Schneebeli Earth Science Center and Bardo Gymnasium on Tuesday, and the Lumley Aviation Center on Wednesday morning.
Paul R. Watson II has been named assistant dean of programs in the School of Integrated Studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Prior to his appointment as assistant dean of integrated studies-programs, Watson served as director of mathematics and general education in the School of Integrated Studies at the college.
William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, jointly authored a paper that was published recently in The Pacific Journal of Mathematics.
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