Faculty & Staff Articles

The director of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Paramedic Program, a Navy Reservist, was called to active duty recently and is preparing for deployment to Iraq. Erich J. Frank, 39, of Williamsport, joined the Navy Reserves in October 2001. He serves as a hospital corpsman assigned to a Fleet Marine Force.

A professor of forestry at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently began a two-year term as chairman of the Council of Eastern Forest Technician Schools, which will hold its 2005 annual meeting at the College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center near Allenwood. Dr. Dennis F.

Dr. Abdul B. Pathan, a professor of economics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, presented a paper recently at the Pennsylvania Economic Association's annual conference in Pittsburgh. The title of Dr.

Dennis L. Correll has been named director of financial aid at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Correll, currently associate dean for institutional advancement at Penn College, will assume his new duties Aug. 2.

Janet McMahon, an associate professor of nursing in Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Health Sciences, was a Distinguished Faculty Member for a national nurse-educator's conference in Philadelphia recently, presenting two topics.

Eight faculty members at Pennsylvania College of Technology have received promotions in rank, and three more have been granted their requests for sabbatical leave in 2004-05. Members of the faculty receiving promotions are: Dr. Robert B. Gudgel, from assistant professor to associate professor of business administration; Dr. Gene L.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students regularly have access to the latest and most relevant tools in their varied courses, and a recent business class studying the European Union was no exception. Enrollees in Steven J. Moff's "Management 299" course had the benefit of a week's primer from Dr.

Members of the Construction Management faculty at Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Construction and Design Technologies have established an annual scholarship for students enrolled in the bachelor-degree program.

Pennsylvania College of Technology faculty members Dr. Joseph E. LeBlanc and Mary Jo Saxe were presented with Excellence in Teaching Awards during spring commencement ceremonies at the Community Arts Center in Williamsport.

Pennsylvania College of Technology presented "Distinguished Staff" and "Part-Time Teaching Excellence" awards today, while also honoring retirees and the newest members of the College's "Quarter-Century Club." The honors were bestowed at an Employee Recognition Week Reception held at Penn's Inn in the Bush Campus Center at Penn College.