Faculty & Staff Articles

Nancy A. Grausam, assistant professor of education and early childhood education at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently was elected to serve on the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Elementary Schools.

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. Among the latest additions: Bradley Webb, Coordinator of Matriculationand Retention, School of Business and Computer Technologies, effective Dec. 7

Carl J. Bower Jr., a horticulture instructor at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has been elected to a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association Board of Directors.

Regis C. Kohler, associate professor of radiography at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was recently asked to review a radiography textbook. Kohler reviewed "Textbook of Radiographic Positioning and Related Anatomy, 7th Edition," written by Kenneth L. Bontrager and John Lampignano and published by Mosby.

Matthew P. Branca, director of The College Store, recently contributed to an industry publication on the compliance efforts college bookstores around the country are undergoing to meet the requirements of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008.

Three staff members at Pennsylvania College of Technology were selected to present sessions at the Pennsylvania Early Childhood Education Summit, held Oct. 26-28 in State College. Barbara J.

Penn College faculty and students from the dental hygiene and physical fitness specialist majors participated in a health fair at the Allenwood Low Security Correctional Institution. Topics covered were: oral health with Barbara K.

A member of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Hydraulics Club recently helped one of his instructors with a lesson at Curtin Middle School in Williamsport. Paul A.

The funeral will be Friday for Steven R. Parker, an assistant professor of physics in Penn College's School of Integrated Studies, who died Monday, Nov. 16. The college flags were lowered in memory of Parker, who joined the college faculty in Fall 2004 as an instructor of environmental technology in the School of Natural Resources Management. The service will be held at 1:30 p.m.

A faculty member at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently gave the keynote address at the 11th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum. William J.