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Brandon S. Sisino, of Cogan Station, whose Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award was announced last spring, was among those honored in a full-page advertisement in the publication Wednesday, Sept. 20. On Page R9 of that day's editions, Sisino was listed on a "Best in Class" honor roll congratulating all of the newspaper's 2006 award winners.

Students enrolled in majors offered by Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Hospitality will take their skills on the road, providing catering services at Hunt Country Vineyards' Gourmet Harvest Festival in Branchport, N.Y., on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Participating students are enrolled in a Catering course at Penn College.

A business administration-human resource management major at Pennsylvania College of Technology has received a $1,000 scholarship from the local chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management. The West Branch Human Resources Society presented the award to Michelle L.

The Lycoming County Paralegal Association is honoring one of its members by establishing a scholarship fund for legal assistant/paralegal students at Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Students from the School of Hospitality's artistic buffet course took to the ice Wednesday morning on the patio outside the Susquehanna Room. Under the direction of Frank M. Suchwala, instructor of hospitality management and culinary arts, the students carved goldfish sculptures from blocks of ice.

While student interns have helped all summer at Le Jeune Chef on the campus of Pennsylvania College of Technology, the beginning of the fall semester brings the return of classes to the restaurant's kitchens, with student-produced meals beginning in September.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology professor recently published an essay and was chosen to read papers at conferences for international organizations. Mark D. Noe, professor of English and composition, published an essay titled "Cather's 'O Pioneers!'" in the Spring 2006 issue of The Explicator.

Students enrolled in a catering class at Pennsylvania College of Technology will combine their talents with fresh, local food when they prepare dishes for the public at the Williamsport Growers Market on Sept. 9. As guest chefs, the students will offer demonstrations and samples, preparing dishes made from the products available at the market.

William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently had a research paper "Euclidean Properties of Hyperbolic Polar Coordinates" published in an international, peer-reviewed journal. Ma's paper appears in Computational Methods and Function Theory, Volume 6, 2006. The journal, which publishes original research papers in complex analysis, is issued annually.