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A Pennsylvania College of Technology junior has been awarded one of three $1,000 scholarships from an online community for accounting professionals. Steven W. Garner, of Lock Haven, pursuing a four-year degree in accounting from the college's School of Business and Computer Technologies, received his award from AccountingWEB.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student who died in June will be memorialized through a scholarship fund at the college. The Luke James Haefner Memorial Scholarship Fund will be open to residents of Lycoming County who are full-time students in Penn College's information technology sciences-gaming and simulation bachelor-degree major.

Pennsylvania College of Technology recently appointed a director of mathematics and general education in the School of Integrated Studies. Paul Watson II began his duties on July 1.

Carolyn M. Jacobson has been named assistant dean of business and computer technologies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. "We are very pleased to have Dr. Jacobson join the School of Business and Computer Technologies at Penn College," said Paul L. Starkey, vice president for academic affairs/provost.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member is part of a national initiative to enhance economics education at community colleges and other two-year institutions. Gerald D.

Le Jeune Chef Restaurant's vegetable garden was planted over the weekend with a variety of vegetables and herbs, including beefsteak, Syrian, snowberry, Roma, Tiny Tim, and yellow heirloom tomatoes; Hungarian banana, sweet bell, cherry hot, chocolate habaneras and yellow wax peppers; and basil, purple basil, sage and parsley.

For the second consecutive year, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants has awarded a renewable scholarship to a Pennsylvania College of Technology baccalaureate accounting major and honored two May graduates as "Outstanding College Seniors." Steven W.

A Loyalsock Township High School senior who has been active in community service projects throughout her high school years is the 2011 recipient of the Peggy Madigan Memorial Leadership Scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology. A selection committee chose Niesha J. Williams to receive this year's award for the scholarship named in memory of the late wife of former state Sen. Roger A.

A local business leader has established an endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology in memory of his father and in honor of his mother. Frank Pellegrino, executive vice president of PRIMUS Technologies Corp., Williamsport, recently made a gift to the Penn College Foundation to establish the John Joseph and Eva Girio Pellegrino Scholarship Fund.

A key figure in the development of Pennsylvania College of Technology and his wife have established a scholarship fund at the college. Former State Rep. Alvin C. Bush and his wife, Elizabeth, have established the Alvin Bush Family Scholarship at Penn College.