Faculty & Staff Articles

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Board of Directors has approved "professor emeritus" status for Phillip D. Landers, retired professor of business administration/management. Landers retired in August after 43 years as a faculty member at Penn College and its predecessor institution, Williamsport Area Community College.

Students in MTH 156 (Mathematics in Non-European Cultures) presented their study abroad projects in the Bush Campus Center TV Lounge this past week. The group traveled to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and studied the Mayan civilization. The Penn College community is welcome to sign up for next year's overland adventure through the rain forests and lowlands of the Mayan world.

Team SchuPa will run the Rivertown Half Marathon in Danville on May 5 to support the Chester D. Schuman Scholarship, memorializing Penn College's longtime admissions director and golf coach. Some of the team members are pictured with members of the Schuman family, sporting the team T-shirt designed by the Schumans' daughter, Lauren, a 2005 Penn College graduate.

A faculty member in the School of Integrated Studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology was a presenter at two recent conferences. D. Robert Cooley, assistant professor of anthropology/environmental science, presented on March 24 at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning With Technology and on March 29 at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in Baltimore.

Three individuals with a wealth of workforce-development and industry experience recently began working at Pennsylvania College of Technology as administrators with Workforce Development & Continuing Education and the Marcellus Shale Education & Training Center at Penn College. Shannon M. Munro was named executive director of workforce development and continuing education. Rex E.

Members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Healthy Wildcats adviser Kristi L. Hammaker, health and fitness specialist; Stephanie M. Hunsucker, Sicklerville, N.J., applied health studies: physical fitness specialist concentration; Whitnie-Rae Mays, Reading, graphic design/advertising art; Stephanie L. Weidman, Westfield, pre-occupational therapy; and Sammera T.

Debra A. Buckman, assistant professor of chemistry and environmental science at Pennsylvania College of Technology, participated on a panel discussion on the role of educators in teaching about Marcellus Shale. The discussion was part of the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators.

Thirty-seven Penn College employees and students were added to the roster of Awesome Women Exemplars during the seventh annual recognition reception in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room. They join nearly 200 other campus luminaries on the list, which is expanded each year in conjunction with Women's History Month. Kimberly R.

Pennsylvania College of Technology was the recent host of FIRST Tech Challenge's Pennsylvania Championship Tournament, providing a home and a small army of volunteers for a day full of high-level robotics competition among high school teams from seven states. Thirty teams of enterprising ninth- to 12th-grade students, surrounded by supporters, filled Penn College's Field House on Feb.

Paul R. Watson II has been named assistant dean of programs in the School of Integrated Studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Prior to his appointment as assistant dean of integrated studies-programs, Watson served as director of mathematics and general education in the School of Integrated Studies at the college.