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The crime scene at our fingertips, whether the instrument or the victim of attack A mix of students, community members and past Colloquia speakers are on hand for Ebersole's instructive talk. The speaker shows a "ransomware" pop-up, which extorts money from an Internet user facing encryption of computer files.

State Sen. Gene Yaw, chairman of Penn College's Board of Directors and a legislative leader in Pennsylvania’s response to the heroin and opioid epidemic, introduces the evening's guest. Quinones acknowledges the size of the crowd for his CAC appearance. The speaker references Lycoming County's collaborative effort to combat drug abuse.

A suicide-prevention specialist, who jumped 220 feet into frigid San Francisco Bay from the Golden Gate Bridge more than 16 years ago, will share the compelling story of his unlikely survival in a rescheduled Pennsylvania College of Technology visit on Tuesday, April 11.

Friday's near-April showers caused Saturday's Open House crowds to bloom, bringing hundreds upon hundreds of prospective students and their families to Penn College for an inside look at a national leader in applied technology education.

The Student Government Association at Pennsylvania College of Technology will host its annual Silent Auction on Friday, April 28, to benefit the Student Leader Legacy Scholarship Fund. The auction will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the first floor of Madigan Library.

As part of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Technology & Society Colloquia Series, faculty member and forensic accounting expert William E. Ebersole will discuss how the burgeoning “internet of things” exposes us to digital intrusions that may seek more than personally identifiable information.

A Pennsylvania College of Technology student group is inviting community members to fight – with robots. The Student Wildcats of Robotic Design club is hosting “S.W.O.R.D. Fights 3: Revenge of the Wedge” from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 8 in the college’s Field House.

A projected promising national employment outlook for the Class of 2017 proved to be the reality for Pennsylvania College of Technology students at the school’s recent Career Fair. More than 230 employers, a record for the Spring Career Fair, visited campus, offering approximately 2,500 jobs and internships to Penn College students. The employers included 17 Fortune 500 companies.

Sam Quinones, a former Los Angeles-based journalist, will share the insights he gained while writing his book “Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic” during a presentation at 7 p.m. April 3 at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport. The presentation is free and open to the public.

In early April, Pennsylvania College of Technology will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Visiting Chef Series with the return, for the seventh time, of “Louisiana’s culinary ambassador to the world,” Chef John Folse, along with Folse’s renowned restaurant partner Chef Rick Tramonto, internationally heralded Pastry Chef Donald Wressell, and Chef Elaine Gardner, a 2011 Penn College graduate who