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Chef Roberto Caporuscio recently brought the 300-year-old art of Neapolitan pizza making to the kitchens of Penn College’s hospitality program, where he offered a demonstration and hands-on lesson to students in the Global Cuisine & Connections course, taught by Chef Mary G. Trometter. Caporuscio’s visit was facilitated by Giacomo Berselli, founder of the Marco Polo Program Abroad in Italy.

Photographs by Joanna Knox Yoder, instructor of photography at Pennsylvania College of Technology, have been selected for exhibition in three juried shows – one in South Carolina and two in Georgia.

Craig A. Miller, professor of history/political science and department head for social sciences and humanities at Pennsylvania College of Technology, moderated a recent forum for Lycoming County commissioner and Common Pleas Court judge candidates. “Community forums like this are invaluable to the community as they provide a means to engage directly with candidates for local office,” he said.

When staff and students from Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Le Jeune Chef Restaurant catered daily meals for the teams participating in the 2023 Little League Baseball World Series, they had an extra token to share: trading pins designed by Penn College graphic design student Brock R. Hower, of Montoursville.

Penn College culinary arts & systems and baking & pastry arts grad Dylan Therrien ’18 has found a culinary playground at Brush Creek Ranch, where he is executive sous chef in the luxury resort’s fine-dining restaurant. His work at the 30,000-acre Wyoming destination is featured in the August-September issue of Covey Rise, “a distinctive magazine devoted to the upland sporting lifestyle.” The article is titled “Passion to Plate in the Great American West.”

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s association with the Little League Challenger Division dates back to the early 2000s, when a faculty member – with two kids playing in the first two exhibition games – turned parenthood and passion into a volunteer gig. Decades later, Steven J. Moff, professor of business administration/management and marketing, is still on board.

Two Williamsport-area nonprofits will again support one another during the Little League Baseball World Series, as budding culinary artists and paramedics from Pennsylvania College of Technology gain experience, and Little League players and fans benefit from their skill. The nationally televised series, scheduled Aug. 16-27, draws tens of thousands of spectators each day to the Little League World Series complex in South Williamsport, just a few miles from the Penn College campus.

Clay art pieces crafted by Gerald G. Kaplan, instructor of ceramics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, were selected for display in two national juried exhibitions this summer – one in the heart of New Orleans and the other in rural, southwestern Pennsylvania.

Private arrangements are pending for Michael Tyson, a longtime member of the mathematics faculty at Williamsport Area Community College and Pennsylvania College of Technology, who died July 17, 2023, at his home in Fountain Hills, Arizona.

Craig A. Miller, professor of history/political science and department head for social sciences and humanities, and Jennifer R. Wahl, instructor of social sciences, were two of five educators tasked with discussing “Democratizing, Diversifying and Decolonizing the World History Survey” in a roundtable session at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the World History Association, held recently in Pittsburgh.