Alumni Articles

From the Spring 2023 Penn College Magazine: Get a jump-start on the growing season with tips for starting seeds indoors with culinary arts & systems grad Skylar (Burke) Diehl, '12. Skylar and her husband, Evan (a 2011 grad in heavy construction equipment technology: technician emphasis) practice homesteading on their 3-acre farm near Howard. "Homesteading is about living a self-sufficient life, which can look different in every homestead," Skylar Diehl says.

An electrical technology alumnus, part of a multigenerational group of graduates from Pennsylvania College of Technology and both of its predecessor institutions, paid a visit Thursday to the Lumley Aviation Center – and the Cessna 175C that he and a co-owner gifted to Penn College a decade ago.

Eight Pennsylvania College of Technology students were among 529 entrants from across the country who took part in the National Collegiate Landscape Competition, held March 15-18 at Mississippi State University.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Chef Charles R. Niedermyer is the subject of a six-page “Teacher Feature” in the Winter 2023 issue of Pastry Arts Magazine.

At Elwood, James Beard-nominated restaurateur Adam Diltz, ’00, provides an education in Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine and Philadelphia food history.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's steadfast donors and their grateful beneficiaries came face-to-face at Sunday's annual Scholarship Luncheon, held in the campus Field House in celebration of the doors that philanthropy opens for students.

A “Chopped” champion and a Scranton-area bakery owner, both graduates of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s hospitality program, will return to the college for its Visiting Chef Series, which culminates in a dinner to benefit scholarships.

Eleven of instructor Franklin H. Reber Jr.'s concrete science students, along with two graduates and industry employers, recently attended a seven-hour Nudura Corp. Insulated Concrete Forms certification training at Hoover Industrial Supply in Troy.

The naming of two instructional labs at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center heightens the visibility of a corporate partner’s enduring behind-the-scenes investment in the next generation of industry leaders.

Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor, the commonwealth’s chief fiscal watchdog, traveled to main campus on Thursday in hopes of filling paid internships and other positions from within Penn College’s business and information technology programs.