Faculty & Staff Articles

PCToday continues its regular feature welcoming new full-time and regular part-time PennCollege employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office.

Two academic deans will end their Pennsylvania College of Technology careers this month, leaving a proud legacy for the experienced administrators who will succeed them. Wayne R. Longbrake, dean of natural resources management, and Kathie E. Morr Longbrake, dean of health sciences, will retire effective June 30.

Penn College faculty members Roy P. Fontaine, professor of psychology; Curt E. Vander Vere, assistant professor of mathematics, and Tom A. Zimmerman, associate professor of psychology, completed the National Science Foundation course "Ancient Inca Mathematics and Culture" this month.

PCToday continues its regular feature welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Penn College employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office.

A member of Penn College's horticulture faculty is featured in the May/June issue of Pennsylvania Landscapeand Nursery magazine, the official publication of the Pennsylvania Landscape and Nursery Association. Carl J. Bower, recipient of a PLNA scholarship while a student at the college, is profiled in a "Where Are They Now?" update about past winners.

Information Technology Services is pleased to introduce a new information resource for Penn College employees, an employee-only Web portal titled myPCT. The impetus behind myPCT was to provide college employees with one-stop access to the campus information resources they use every day.

All employees who had access to the Student Information Display on their AS/400 menu now have an Employee Information System option named Student Information Display and Search. This new EIS option allows for searching for students by name, college ID number or e-mail user ID.

While helping to staff the Bread Bakers Guild of America's annual Camp Bread in San Francisco, School of Hospitality faculty members Monica J. Lanczak and Charles R. Niedermyer took part in building what the guild believes is the tallest bread sculpture ever made. The sculpture is 10 feet, 2 inches high and approximately 4 feet in diameter.

Regis C. Kohler, associate professor of radiography at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be listed in "Who's Who in American Education 2007-2008." Kohler has taught at Penn College since 1987. He earned a master's degree from Bloomsburg University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

Pennsylvania College of Technology Police Chief Chris Miller will be one of the featured presenters at a July 28 workshop in Hartford, Conn., promoting safe, secure, and responsible living and learning environments at colleges and universities.