Faculty & Staff Articles

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Chef Mary G. Trometter, assistant professor of hospitality management/culinary arts, was recently installed as vice president for education for the Pennsylvania Restaurant & Lodging Association Educational Foundation.

The symbiotic relationship between Penn State and Pennsylvania College of Technology was front and center on Oct. 4, as the new presidents of both institutions underscored their shared mission during a visit in Williamsport. President Michael J.

The teenage stars of Thursday night's "MasterChef Junior Live!" appearance at the Community Arts Center spent the morning at Penn College – touring campus, interacting with students and enjoying a buffet lunch in Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.

"Penn College: Shaping the Next Generation of Welders," a recent article prepared by Miller Electric Manufacturing LLC – one of the institution's generous corporate partners – details students' numerous opportunities to apply their learning beyond the lab.

For General Services employees, summer is often the busiest time of the year at Pennsylvania College of Technology. On top of the many projects going on around campus, it is typically the only time they can get in and perform an intensive cleaning of the residence halls.

Neslihan “Nesli” Alp’s education and decorated career in academia have prompted several moves over the years, from her native Turkey to various regions in the United States. But her latest stop feels like home. Alp is the new vice president for academic affairs and provost at Pennsylvania College of Technology, the institution’s highest-ranking academic officer.

Justin M. Ingram, associate professor of biology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has joined two task forces launched by the American Society of Brewing Chemists. Ingram was invited to serve on ASBC’s Education Task Force and its Small Brewery Membership Campaign Task Force. The goals of both initiatives promote and support education in small breweries using ASBC’s gold standards. Justin M.

William Ma, professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania College of Technology, has published a research paper titled “A metric that better approximates the hyperbolic metric” in a recent volume of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, a journal of the American Mathematical Society.

Two graphic design faculty members from Pennsylvania College of Technology presented insights on visual literacy at an international conference in Finland in mid-August. Brian A. Flynn and David M. Moyer, assistant professors of graphic design, were featured at the 54th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association, held at the University of Jyväskylä, in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students were among those on hand Saturday as their 193rd Special Operations Wing, a unit of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, transmitted its final message to spectators during the Community Days Air Show at the Lancaster Airport in Lititz.