Faculty & Staff Articles

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. Tracey L. Hendershot, regular part-time Dining Services Worker III, effective Feb. 18 Keyshia L. Brown and Malissa M. Mundorff, regular part-time Dining Services Workers I, starting Feb.

“Yellow It Out,” an annual initiative aimed at suicide prevention and awareness, was marked with a number of campuswide events that brightly illuminated a most noteworthy topic.

Penn College's director of career services was among the higher-education professionals interviewed for a Wednesday pahomepage.com feature about students' preparation for postgraduate employment.

Backed by an impressive commemoration of the donors who made the facility possible, Keating talks with Rhoades. Recording some welding in "Pipe Alley" Allen adds faculty insight to the interviews. A WNEP reporter visited Penn College's Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center this week, preparing a piece about the expanded (and recently dedicated) welding lab.

The 2020 edition of the Student Engagement Office's Murder Mystery Dinner is scheduled for Leap Day – Saturday, Feb. 29 – in the Mountain Laurel Room of Penn College's Thompson Professional Development Center. Tickets for students ($16.95; flex or declining balance) and for faculty and staff ($19.95) are available online.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students and instructors will again add their talents to the offerings at a popular fundraiser designed to help feed the hungry in our community. Begun more than 20 years ago in Harrisburg, the Central PA Food Bank’s annual Soup and a Bowl Fundraiser is scheduled Feb. 21 at the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport.

Penn College's expanded and enhanced welding lab, unveiled in dedication ceremonies on Feb. 6, is featured in a new video on the college's YouTube channel. At 55,000-plus square feet, it is believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide.

An expanded and enhanced welding lab – at 55,000-plus square feet, believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide – was dedicated on Feb. 6 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Welding Expansion Project, funded in part by a $2 million grant from the U.S.

The winter version of Student Affairs' popular “Hot Dog, You’re Back!” mixer, recently held in the Field House, provided an opportunity for Penn College students to get reacclimated in the company of friendly pets and the faculty/staff bipeds who cherish them. The now-biannual event has proved to be among the campus's most popular since it debuted in 2010.

The Horticulture Club will hold a Valentine's Day sale from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 13-14 in front of CC Commons (Bush Campus Center, first floor). Members will be selling succulents and various interior plants, roses, and roses in bud vases. Vases can be pre-ordered, with pickup and payment during the sale. Everything else is "cash and carry" on sale days.