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Students supplement classroom assignments with museum field trip. Thirty-two Penn College students and guests traveled Saturday to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. They were accompanied by Malinda C. Love, assistant director of student activities for diversity and cultural life, and Tom A. Zimmerman, associate professor of psychology (who also provided the photo).

Of growing interest Word of Penn College's hydroculture greenhouse, a collaborative initiative based at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood, is traveling throughout the United States. In addition to the college's own coverage, a recent article by Williamsport Sun-Gazette reporter Joseph Stender was distributed nationally by The Associated Press.

Camaraderie beyond the classroom At left, Daniel W. Yoas, among the supportive faculty members on hand, and Taylor R. Lapointe, an information technology: information assurance and security concentration major from Pelham, N.H. and Resident Assistant for the living-learning community Thumbs-up for the chow-down Faculty member Lisa R. Bock joins in the fun.

Emily C. Bigger, of Trout Run, is the first among a series of graphic design students to exhibit their art/photography work at the Community Arts Center on First Friday. She is showing selected photographs from the Fine Art Photography course in the arts center's Collegetown Gallery, 220 W. Fourth St.

The Hudock Moyer Wealth Resources Scholarship has been established as a building-to-­endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

The Hudock Moyer Wealth Resources Scholarship has been established as a building-to-­endowed scholarship fund at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Pennsylvania College of Technology announced the winners for its annual Food Show, a showcase for final projects in advanced culinary arts and baking and pastry arts courses at the college. Taking the Chef Eugene Mattucci Best of Show Award was a two-tier cake decorated by Carrie A. Williams, a baking and pastry arts student from State College.

Penn College's contributions to the 97th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show, satisfying academic curiosity and culinary cravings, are featured in the latest addition to the college's YouTube channel.

Ceramics students craft handmade soup bowls for annual food-bank fundraiser. Fifty handmade bowls have been donated to the seventh annual Williamsport Soup and a Bowl event by students in David A. Stabley's Fall 2012 Ceramics I class. The Central Pennsylvania Food Bank fundraiser, to be held from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb.

Vinay Bahl, associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been appointed to serve as an external examiner for a South African university study. The Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, appointed Bahl as the external examiner for a master’s degree study for 2013.