Faculty & Staff Articles

The Dunham Children's Learning Center observed the Week of the Young Child earlier this month, a celebration of youngsters and staff alike ... and a shared enjoyment of some yummy treats.

Newswatch 16's Chris Keating made a Tuesday morning visit to campus for Rotorfest, an interactive career day bringing together emergency response and aviation employers, current Penn College students and faculty, and dual-enrollment students from K-12 schools and career technology centers.

Penn College students supported the community Saturday by volunteering at the Lycoming County SPCA's annual Paws Run 5K.

“A Week With Waffles,” an interactive chronicle of a guinea pig’s delightful day-to-day adventures, received two honors in the Reader Views 2022-23 Literary Awards competition. The book, authored by Pennsylvania College of Technology writer/video producer Tom Speicher and illustrated by Argentinian artist Marina Saumell, is a Gold Medal winner in the preschool/toddler category and was selected for the Best Children’s Picture Book Award.

A dozen students and Jaycie M. Loud, assistant director of student engagement, traveled to Rider Park over the weekend for the semester's final “(community) Service Saturday."

A memorial service will be Saturday, April 15, for Douglas M. Sherry, a part-time sociology instructor at Penn College, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 57. Among the survivors is his wife, Laura M. Dickinson, an associate professor of English-composition.

An electrical technology alumnus, part of a multigenerational group of graduates from Pennsylvania College of Technology and both of its predecessor institutions, paid a visit Thursday to the Lumley Aviation Center – and the Cessna 175C that he and a co-owner gifted to Penn College a decade ago.

About 200 children enjoyed Sunday's Wildcat Egg Hunt on Penn College's main campus, a return to the level of participation that preceded the two years lost to COVID-19.

A cultural interchange between Pennsylvania College of Technology and visitors from North West Regional College in Northern Ireland – a two-week whirlwind that was five years in the making – came to a close with memories indelibly shared and lives irrevocably altered.

Penn College's annual "YELLow It Out" observance, sponsored this past week by Student Affairs and People & Culture, offered coordinated programming aimed at sharing resources and raising awareness for suicide prevention.