Faculty & Staff Articles

A Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty member is employing his expertise to help protect front-line workers battling the COVID-19 pandemic.  Eric K. Albert, associate professor of automated manufacturing and machining, is producing face shields with the college’s Stratasys 3D printers.

The 2020 class of Penn College's “Awesome Woman Exemplars" – 31 strong, at a time when strength is a particular virtue – have been recognized in a unique format necessitated by social distancing and inhibited gatherings.

President Davie Jane Gilmour has responded to a student's "disgusting" online communication, strongly calling on the entire campus community to unify against divisive behavior that is wholly incompatible with the college's values.

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.

Clay County (Florida) Habitat for Humanity welcomed Pennsylvania College of Technology students and advisers earlier this month for a service-oriented alternative spring break. The group volunteered through Collegiate Challenge, which, for more than a quarter-century, has engaged high school and college students in construction of safe and affordable housing throughout the country.

On Monday afternoon, Pennsylvania College of Technology President Davie Jane Gilmour and Michael J. Reed, vice president for academic affairs/provost, updated students on the institution's response to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

Spring Open House, scheduled for Saturday, March 28, has been canceled, as are general Tuesday/Thursday campus tours through the remainder of the spring semester. Additional Exploration Days have been scheduled for May 29; June 27; July 8, 15 and 25; and Aug. 10. (The Exploration Day scheduled for April 24 has been canceled.)

Pennsylvania College of Technology has no reported or confirmed cases of COVID-19. Out of an abundance of caution, the college has extended Spring Break for students by one week, until Monday, March 23. Students should remain at their permanent residences during this time. There will be no academic-related activities for students on or off campus.

Hutchins (right), along with Dr. Gregory R. Frailey (left), medical director for the paramedic program, and John W. “J.J.” Magyar II, part-time faculty Jeffrey L.