Nursing & Health Sciences Articles

Seventy-five students enrolled in physician assistant, paramedic technology and emergency medical services majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology will serve at the 2013 Little League Baseball World Series, which attracts teams and fans from around the world and runs Aug. 15-25.

Area health care providers and emergency responders, part-time Penn College faculty, and alumni shared their insights with students and others during Thursday visits to main campus. The day began at around 8:30 a.m., when pilot Eric Smith landed Geisinger Health System's Life Flight 4 helicopter on the Madigan Library lawn.

A commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, Aug. 10, for nearly 250 students who have petitioned to graduate from Pennsylvania College of Technology after the college’s summer sessions. The commencement ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. in the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. The student speaker for the ceremony will be Katherine P.

As an athlete, coach and teacher, Ronald E. Kodish has made a lifetime commitment to keeping fit and staying healthy. That purposeful pursuit will wind its way along Route 6 in the coming weeks, as enduring love fuels a memorial bicycle ride through the picturesque wilderness of the Northern Tier.

A nursing student at Pennsylvania College of Technology is among just more than 100 from around the nation selected for the Mayo Clinic’s Summer III Nursing Externship. Stephanie M. Snyder, of Williamsport, began her externship at the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, Minn., on June 3 with an intensive, two-week orientation.

A recent Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate, who will continue studies toward a four-year degree in her chosen field, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Pennsylvania Health Information Management Association. Tiffany M.

Around 40 ninth- to 12th-graders stayed on campus this week to get a hands-on introduction to a variety of fields during Health Careers Camp.

Lunchtime patrons craft a portable meal, adding ground beef, cheese and other "fixin's" to their bags of chips during a fundraiser in the Breuder Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center. Incoming club President Tonya N. Krug, of Williamsport (center) and 2013-14 Vice President Kathryn M. Slivinski present a $235 check to a Relay for Life representative.

A recent benefit for the William E. Henry Memorial Scholarship, established early last year by family and friends of a local trailblazer in emergency medical services, brought the fund $500 closer to endowment.

A Hughesville High School senior was presented with the 2013 Peggy Madigan Memorial Leadership Scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology on May 23. Kyle Bomboy, of Unityville, will enroll in the physician assistant major this fall at Penn College. The scholarship – named in memory of the late wife of former state Sen. Roger A.