Business, Arts & Sciences Articles

Roy A. Fletcher, assistant professor of business administration: banking and finance, offers to share classroom access to the college’s live market tracking tools. Gerri F. Luke, dean of business and hospitality, offers an inspirational message, asking students to consider doing their best for others a bigger win than doing their best for themselves.

A new video, in which Presidential Student Ambassador Emily K. Lutz chats with Chef Frank Suchwala about "Technology in the Kitchen," has been added to the Penn College YouTube channel. The clip gives viewers a taste of "fruit-juice caviar" and other scientific food preparation in the School of Business & Hospitality and at the recent USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

A new video, in which Presidential Student Ambassador Emily K. Lutz chats with Chef Frank Suchwala about "Technology in the Kitchen," has been added to the Penn College YouTube channel. The clip gives viewers a taste of "fruit-juice caviar" and other scientific food preparation in the School of Business & Hospitality and at the recent USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

Penn College’s hospitality department hosted its annual Culinary and Pastry Experience on April 29, showing off the work of students in five classes: Advanced Baking Applications for Culinary Arts, Cakes and Decorations, Classical and Specialty Dessert Presentation, Culinary Competition and Skills Assessment, and Principles of Chocolate Works.

Clayton K. Lose, of Waterville, laughs along with the audience at an old photo of himself participating in the Smoked Country Jam Bluegrass Festival for which he created a website. Rebecca L. Workman, of Valencia, created a new website for Road Radio USA, an organization offering secondary schools free safety assemblies designed to prevent underage drinking and distracted driving.

Dalaney T. Vartenisian, a sophomore in the Web and interactive media major, credits a conversation with her First Year Experience instructor about the stressors she identified in a survey for helping her to progress successfully.

Kate (Bishop) Hunter, ’00, culinary arts technology, offers career tips during a library presentation. From left, Robb C. Dietrich, executive director of the Penn College Foundation, Sarah B. Fiedler, recipient of the Jones Dairy Culinary Scholarship, and Kate Hunter, ’00, who presented the scholarship on behalf of Jones Dairy Farm.

Creative designs by two graphic design seniors at Pennsylvania College of Technology were honored by the annual Flux Student Design Competition sponsored by AIGA Blue Ridge, a chapter of the national AIGA organization. Zachary G. Bird, of South Williamsport, and Nicholas J. Vetock, of Shippensburg, had their work selected from nearly 800 entries submitted in the competition.

Design: 2016 offers an eye-opening opportunity for students, faculty, staff, family, friends and community members. An avid Marilyn Monroe fan, Alexa A. Januchowski displays a jewelry box collection of five Monroe films on DVD, a biography and filmography. Michael J. Reed, dean of sciences, humanities and visual communications, welcomes the gallery crowd and praises the graphic design seniors.

Award-winning cake designer Irene Maston, named one of Brides magazine’s Top 100 Cake Designers, visited campus Thursday to provide a cake-sculpting demonstration in the Madigan Library. During her well-attended talk, she transformed a stack of triple-chocolate layer cakes to a likeness of the college’s Wildcat mascot.