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WNEP’s Chris Keating spoke remotely Tuesday with Spyke M. Krepshaw, assistant professor of web and interactive media, about the faculty member's recent offer of website assistance to businesses engaged in e-commerce during the coronavirus crisis. WNEP's story included this view from the northwest corner of West Fourth and Market streets in downtown Williamsport. Keating also talked with Jason C.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students, guided by a quick-thinking faculty mentor in partnership with the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce, are providing a true community service: facilitating online ordering pages for businesses still permitted to operate during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sixteen design projects created by graphic design students at Pennsylvania College of Technology have been honored in the national Flux Student Design Competition. “This is, by far, the best showing we’ve ever had in this contest,” said Nicholas L. Stephenson, instructor of graphic design at Penn College.

It’s rich. It’s creamy. It’s Le Jeune Chef Restaurant’s signature Chocolate Soup. If you’ve visited the casual fine dining restaurant on Penn College's main campus, you’ve probably tasted this craveable masterpiece. Join Chef Chris Grove and Claudia Walling, a baking and pastry arts student from Williamsport, to learn how easy it is to bring home this crowd favorite.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: The Spring 2020 Visiting Chef Dinner was ultimately canceled due to COVID-19 concerns.) Set for April 3, Pennsylvania College of Technology’s annual Visiting Chef dinner will feature Chef Fabrizio Facchini, who has gained acclaim in both Italy and the United States.

Get an insider's look at Penn College's graphic design program through an engaging video created and edited by Luke A. Bierly, a 2019 alumnus of the major. "A graphic designer isn't just somebody who's solid in art, or can draw, or can build websites," instructor Nicholas L. Stephenson says in the three-minute piece, which has been added to the college YouTube channel.

After advancing to the “Grand Finale” of a five-episode “Chopped” championship, Chef Kristina Wisneski, ’13, was eliminated in the finale’s second round, which aired Tuesday on Food Network. Chef Giorgio Rapicavoli, a past "Chopped" champion and one of three judges for the show's "$50,000 Champs Challenge: Grand Finale" checks in on Chef Kristina Wisneski.

The 2020 edition of the Student Engagement Office's Murder Mystery Dinner is scheduled for Leap Day – Saturday, Feb. 29 – in the Mountain Laurel Room of Penn College's Thompson Professional Development Center. Tickets for students ($16.95; flex or declining balance) and for faculty and staff ($19.95) are available online.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students and instructors will again add their talents to the offerings at a popular fundraiser designed to help feed the hungry in our community. Begun more than 20 years ago in Harrisburg, the Central PA Food Bank’s annual Soup and a Bowl Fundraiser is scheduled Feb. 21 at the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students and instructors will again add their talents to the offerings at a popular fundraiser designed to help feed the hungry in our community. Begun more than 20 years ago in Harrisburg, the Central PA Food Bank’s annual Soup and a Bowl Fundraiser is scheduled Feb. 21 at the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport.