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The Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors approved two retired faculty for emeritus status during its Oct. 9 board meeting. Kirk M. Cantor, polymer engineering, and Keith A. Vanderlin, graphic design and art, received this recognition.

Chef Alberto Mezzoli, corporate chef for Bindi North America, spent time with students in the Customer Service & Retail Baking Operations class as they prepared an Italian-themed bread and pastry sale, then provided a demonstration for all those interested in the Global Food & Hospitality: Cuisine, Culture & Perspectives class.

What started with a bit of curiosity now has Joanna Yoder, Pennsylvania College of Technology photography instructor, showing her artwork in exhibits and magazines across the country and around the world.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Natural Sciences Department recently made two donations in support of local educational programs. Part of the School of Business, Arts & Sciences, the department focuses on inspiring students to wonder and be amazed by the world around them through three major curricular areas: biology, chemistry and physics.

Pennsylvania College of Technology emergency and homeland security instructor William A. Schlosser has been named a Certified Emergency Manager by the International Association of Emergency Managers.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology School of Business, Arts & Sciences recently held an Active Thinking & Learning Math Professional Day for full-time and adjunct math faculty. Local high school math teachers also were in attendance for the workshop, which was led by Trey Cox, a veteran mathematics educator with 39 years of teaching experience spanning middle school, high school and college in Illinois and Arizona.

As part of a partnership that dates to the excavation of Lamade Stadium in 1959, the Little League Baseball World Series yields hands-on learning activities for Penn College students. In just the series' first four days, photographers captured the activities of paramedic, baking & culinary, and welding students.

WNEP-TV’s Mackenzie Aucker visited the kitchens of Le Jeune Chef Restaurant on Monday to learn about the work Penn College hospitality students and staff are doing to feed the 20 teams competing in this year’s Little League Baseball World Series.

Among the huge assembly of people required to welcome 20 teams and around 300,000 fans to the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport are Pennsylvania College of Technology students and staff. Baking and culinary students and staff from the college’s Le Jeune Chef Restaurant are set to prepare meals for the competing teams, while paramedic students will help provide for the emergency medical needs of the thousands of spectators who attend each of the nationally televised series’ 38 games.

The campus opened its labs to middle schoolers during two sessions of My Tomorrow, a Penn College summer camp that helps participants preview a variety of careers. Fifty-five campers attended the sold-out events.