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A member of the horticulture faculty at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently joined colleagues from across the country in a visit with the nation's largest landscape-construction contractor, returning home with a $1,000 donation for the college's School of Natural Resources Management. Carl J. Bower Jr. attended the Second Annual Faculty Summit, held Feb.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Schneebeli Earth Science Center is featured in the latest issue of a national trade magazine, in which horticulture faculty member Carl J. Bower Jr. details the addition of a conifer garden to the facility's 5-acre arboretum.

Thirteen students in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management passed the Pennsylvania Pesticide Applicator Certification exam offered at the college's Schneebeli Earth Science Center near the close of the Fall 2007 semester.

The dean of Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Transportation Technology is among the higher-education professionals recently certified by the Society for College and University Planning. Colin W. Williamson joins about 100 colleagues nationwide and is one of very few in Pennsylvania who have completed the three-level SCUP Planning Institute.

Students and a faculty member from Pennsylvania College of Technology recently attended the Electrical Generating Systems Association On-Site Power School in New Orleans, participating in training sessions and meeting potential employers among the key industry representatives that attended. The group five students in the electric power generation technology major and Jon W.

An automotive graduate of Pennsylvania College of Technologyhas received the Technician of the Future award, sponsored by Mitchell 1 and the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence. Colin N. Hoffard, of Willow Street, recognized for having the highest score in North America on the ASE exam, waspresented withthe honor during a Nov.

Pennsylvania College of Technology was well-represented at Autodesk University 2007, held Nov. 27-30 in Las Vegas. Autodesk University is the world's largest annual gathering of computer aided design and related professionals, with more than 10,000 working professionals, industry experts and Autodesk executives in attendance.

When Pennsylvania College of Technology sophomore Jeffrey J. Faherty entered his first marathon race in Harrisburg on Nov. 11, he didn't know what to expect and he was surprised with the result.

A Pittsburgh-based landscaping company has provided a boost to a growing scholarship fund for students studying landscape technology at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Daniel Eichenlaub, president of Eichenlaub Inc. Landscape Contractor, visited Penn College's Earth Science Center near Allenwood recently to present a check for $1,000 to support the Richard J. Weilminster Scholarship Fund.

Aesthetics and education converge at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center's conifer garden , funded by the American Conifer Society and the Iseli Nursery Inc. in Boring, Ore. The grant proposal was submitted (and the plants selected) by Carl J. Bower, a member of the School of Natural Resources Management's horticulture faculty, with the blessing of Richard J.