Faculty & Staff Articles

Mary T. Stout, assistant professor of physical therapist assistant at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently completed course requirements to become a certified Champion Performance Specialist. To earn the certification, Stout completed a 34-hour course through Champion Performance Therapy and Training System and the Advanced Continuing Education Institute in Belmont, Massachusetts.

A video showcasing Pennsylvania College of Technology’s unique educational brand and hands-on, applied technology approach to learning has earned accolades in a renowned international competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.

Victoria Hurwitz has been named director of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s physical therapist assistant program. Hurwitz, a licensed physical therapist, also holds certification as a Women’s Health Clinical Specialist, and for the past five years, she was a pelvic health physical therapist for UPMC Williamsport.

President Davie Jane Gilmour appeared before the state Senate Education Committee on Tuesday, assessing COVID-19's impact on fulfillment of Penn College's mission.

In a Tioga County borough that appreciates art, these newcomers feel right at home. A repurposed lens lends color to the garden spot ... ... spilling onto its neighbor with a hammered center and curved, tinted petals. Another unique specimen, seemingly about to bloom A playful parade fronts the ESC.

A pair of YouTube videos adds perspective to the Living Chapel, an international gift that seamlessly melds architecture, botany, theology, sustainability and music – with a vital assist from Penn College welding faculty and students.

Barbara J. Albert, director of the Dunham Children’s Learning Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently served as a panelist for a national video conference on reopening child care centers following pandemic-related closures. The panel discussion was hosted by the National Coalition for Campus Childcare Centers on May 27.

Christine L. Eckenrod, radiography program director at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was recently elected to a two-year term as secretary on the Pennsylvania Society of Radiologic Technologists Board of Directors. Eckenrod was elected by PSRT members.

Shawn A. Kiser, dental hygiene program director at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was appointed to the position of commission site visitor for 2020-21 by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.

Fifty-five years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for all Americans to stand up to injustice, Pennsylvania College of Technology's leader – reflecting on a beloved nation again riven by social unrest – urged a renewed embrace of that civic responsibility. "Now is not the time for silence or inaction," President Davie Jane Gilmour said in a campuswide email to students and employees.