Business & Hospitality Articles

Kierstin Steer Senior forward Kierstin Steer (South Williamsport) has been named the Penn State University Athletic Conference Player of the Week for the period ending Nov.

On Dec. 7, Pennsylvania College of Technology will host its annual chocolate house auction to benefit Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity. Each year, students taking the course Principles of Chocolate Works spend the final weeks of the fall semester building chocolate structures that will be sold in silent auction at the School of Hospitality’s Food Show.

Matching donations from a Pennsylvania College of Technology student organization and its faculty mentor have brought a scholarship fund $1,000 closer to becoming a sustained source of financial aid. Students in Free Enterprise and adviser Dennis R.

UGI Utilities Inc., a company serving more than 648,000 natural gas and electric customers in northern, eastern and central Pennsylvania, has established a scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The UGI Utilities Scholarship will provide annual awards of $1,000, beginning in the fall of 2013, to distinguished students while the fund is building to fully endowed status.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s School of Hospitality will host “An Evening of Pennsylvania Food, Beer and Wine” on Nov. 14, offering opportunities to learn more about the pairing of fine beer and wine with food and to benefit the Peter Hellermann Scholarship Fund. Scheduled at 6:30 p.m.

Jeffrey A. Bower, Madigan Library's virtual resources developer, and librarian Judy F. McConnell are enlisted to caramelize vegetables. Nina M. Johnstonbaugh, a hospitality management student from Mill Hall, and Logan VanHorn, a culinary arts technology major from Mifflintown, also donned aprons for vital assistance. Chef Paul E.

For the 13th consecutive year, Wine Spectator magazine has granted its “Best of Award of Excellence” to Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Le Jeune Chef Restaurant. The restaurant is one of 876 worldwide to earn the magazine’s second-tier "Best of” award.

The accreditation of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s two- and four-year accounting and business majors has been reaffirmed by the only organization that accredits institutions granting both baccalaureate and associate degrees in the field.

Chef Paul Mach, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts and co-host of the Penn College/WVIA television series “You’re the Chef,” recently helped kick off a thematic unit on restaurants for fifth-grade students at Rommelt Elementary School in South Williamsport.

Twenty-one Pennsylvania College of Technology students were hired by Levy Restaurants to help prepare meals for guests attending the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby on May 5.