Faculty & Staff Articles

During Tuesday's basketball doubleheader against Penn State DuBois, Penn College officially began its Centennial Celebration for students. Free hot dogs and other awesome refreshments from Dining Services, as well as a great crowd – including more than 120 student-athletes from a number of Wildcat sports teams – were part of the celebration that honors 100 years of tradition and excellence.

William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, jointly authored a paper that was published recently in an international mathematics journal, Computational Methods and Function Theory. The paper, titled “Bounded Schwarzian and Two-Point Distortion,” was co-authored with two other mathematicians: Diego Mejia, of Universidad Nacional, Colombia, and C.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Brianna R. Helmick, transfer from casual part-time to regular part-time Waitstaff, Le Jeune Chef Restaurant, starting Jan.

Chad L. Karstetter Chad L. Karstetter will step back into the head coaching position for the Penn College archery program for the 2014 season.

Kenneth C. Kuhns, assistant professor of electrical technologies/occupations, oversees the work of a student in the on-site power generation major as he troubleshoots a commercial generator at I-TEC (International Technical Electric & Construction) in Montoursville.

Interactive art project installed in Campus Center Members of the Penn College community are encouraged to participate in Before I Die, a public art project inspired by the work of Candy Chang. Participants complete the sentence, "Before I die, I want to ..." on a white postcard and hang it in the Bush Campus Center's north hallway for public viewing.

Beginning a year that celebrates the institution's history while defining its future, President Davie Jane Gilmour opened the Spring 2014 semester – and Penn College's centennial – with an all-college address to faculty and staff. “It is all of us today – each of us in this room – who will determine how the beginning of the next 100 years is remembered," she said Friday morning.

Echoing colors from the college's centennial logo, tinted tortilla chips await. Eric D. Ranck, manager of bursar and payroll services (left), joins Carl J. Bower Jr., horticulture instructor, in the buffet line. Chocolate bars, a treat no matter the occasion, are among centennial souvenirs. A festive snack begins the college's 100th year.

PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Lauren E. Reed, full-time Clinical Supervisor, Radiography, School of Health Sciences; starting Jan. 6 Matthew T.

Dennis E. Fink celebrated his May 2012 retirement at that month's commencement, surrounded by a fraction of the horticulture students he inspired during 38 years of teaching. A visitation and funeral were held Dec. 27-28 for Dennis E. Fink, 1997's Master Teacher and a retired assistant professor of horticulture, who died Monday, Dec. 23.