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An associate professor of business administration at Pennsylvania College of Technology was in the forefront of a major textbook publisher's latest initiative in distance education. Gerald D.

A Montour County native is among chefs from the award-winning Charleston, S.C., restaurants Magnolias Uptown Down South and Cypress Lowcountry Grille who will visit Pennsylvania College of Technology in March to work with students to produce an elegant "Visiting Chef Dinner" that raises money for scholarships.

Students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Hospitality will serve a breakfast menu and brunch buffet on Sundays at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, trying their hands at kitchen management and menu development during one of the restaurant industry's most profitable periods of the day. A breakfast menu is offered beginning at 9:30 a.m.

The School of Business and Computer Technologies hosted an informal "Late Latte" session for approximately 100 students Tuesday afternoon. The program, held at Penn's Inn, featured a discussion by James R.

More than 800 regional high school and middle school students and chapter advisers from 15 middle and senior high schools recently gathered on Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus to compete in the Region 7 Future Business Leaders of America Conference.

An alumnus and two faculty members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Business and Computer Technologies wrote papers that were presented at two international conferences in Orlando, Fla. Ryan K. Zimmerman, who graduated summa cum laude in Fall 2005 with a degree in computer information technology-data communications and networking, co-wrote the papers with Donald E.

David S. Richards, associate professor of physics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was elected president of the Central Pennsylvania Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Richards took the post after a term as the association's vice president.

A short story by an associate professor of technical communication and literature at Pennsylvania College of Technology has been selected for inclusion in an anthology of Southwestern stories. "The Fifth Daughter," written by Charles F. Kemnitz, is based on research funded by the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, which Kemnitz earned in 2004.

AmerITGrads, a localcompany formed by Penn College alumni, received the "Emerging Business Award" from the Lock Haven Small Business Development Center and the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday afternoon. On hand to receive the award were AmerITGrads employees Daniel R. Little, CEO; Christopher J. Suzadail, vice president; Jonathan W.

A research paper by Jeremiah C. Gee, assessment coordinator for the School of Integrated Studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was recently published in The Journal of Correctional Education.