The third week of the Penn State Coaches Caravan began Tuesday with a sold-out visit to Penn College, where head football coach James Franklin and colleagues met with the media, alumni and fans in the Thompson Professional Development Center and the Field House.
After learning about construction materials, students from Milton Area Middle School explore Penn College student projects. Michael K. Patterson, welding lecturer, talks about his career path from a high school student who attended a Career Day to a National Science Foundation welder in Antarctica to a metalwork artist and entrepreneur.
Pennsylvania College of Technology held three commencement exercises May 16-17 for more than 900 students who petitioned to graduate after Spring 2014 classes. The Friday afternoon ceremony honored students from the School of Business & Hospitality and the School of Construction & Design Technologies.
Fourteen campus leaders were honored at Thursday evening’s Penn College Awards banquet at Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, the 18th annual acknowledgement of commendable community involvement by graduating students. Penn College Award-winners celebrate their achievement in Le Jeune Chef Restaurant. Front row, from left: Matthew A. Wagner, Samantha-Jo M. Bradley, Cassandra B. Mohr, Ashley G.
Tickets are on sale for Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Sept. 27 Wildcat Comic Con, a full day of exciting and engaging activities centered around comics, video games, animation and more. This year’s 8 a.m.-to-5 p.m. event will feature game-design workshops, voice-over actors, comic artists and authors, video-game professionals, a cosplay runway contest, and a Hall of Merchants.
Retirees and employees pass through the Field House, hoping to hit paydirt in the "Ticket to Win It" raffle. President Davie Jane Gilmour (right) and colleagues put their best feet (and hands) forward in a lively game of 3-D Twister. Clockwise from left are Carolyn R. Strickland, assistant vice president for academic services; Sue A. Mahaffey, coordinator of academic services; and Kendel F.
Graphic design seniors, from left: Ryan D. Mull, Kimberly S. Filko, Anthony P. Levan Jr., Erin M. Schlesinger, Stephen W. Houseknecht Jr., Madison M. Miller, Morgan A. Hummel, Emily C. Bigger, Brenna C. Richner and Justin G. Kasubick. Schlesinger gets a hug from a very proud grandmother. During the introductory gallery talk, Thomas C.
Students from Montoursville Area High School, with their teacher, Linda M. Keiser (who is also a part-time instructor of business administration in Penn College’s School of Business & Hospitality) receive certificates for completing the Stock Market Game.
About 600 students attended the recent Block Party on Vine Avenue, between Susquehanna and Park streets, an end-of-semester venue that makes final-exam anxiety vanish for at least a few hours.
Mike S. Dinan, head cook at the Bush Campus Center, serves as the evening's palate-pleaser. Among the enlisted tasters is Michael L. Spear, of Sigma Nu. A cross-section of employees and students provides literal feedback to Dining Services. Jason K. Eichensehr (left), Dining Services manager, talks with Phi Mu Delta's Steven J. Kanaley.
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