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Stunning imagery and stirring music combine in a two-minute video posted to the Facebook page for the Living Chapel, an ode to sustainability and spirituality that gleams with the artistry of Penn College welding faculty and students. Soar via drone amid the beauty of the ages, then glide into the Botanical Garden of Rome for a closer look at this monumental achievement.

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s state-of-the-art Dental Hygiene Clinic is scheduling appointments for the fall semester. The clinic provides low-cost preventive dental hygiene services to the community, including cleanings, exams, X-rays and sealants. The clinic collaborates with area dental offices and can share records to prevent duplication of services.

Applications will be accepted through Sept. 10 for Lead-PCT, an eight-week student leadership experience that provides participants the opportunity to learn different leadership skills and apply them by developing a social change project proposal that directly benefits the Penn College community.

The Northeast PA Manufacturers & Employers Council and Pennsylvania College of Technology announced the first recipients of the YES Certificate Program Scholarship for the 2020-21 academic year. Six students from six school districts have earned the award. All have been certified through the YES Program and have chosen to further their education at Penn College.

The expansive lawn allows for therapeutic sprawl. Keeping their focus through food, goats pile on at snack time. Sporting a stylish bandanna, a guest works the room. Making the leap ... ... and sticking the landing!

Penn College's first Virtual Part-Time Job Fair, connecting students to a host of resume-building opportunities, will be held from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Tuesday. The event concentrates on helping students locate part-time jobs while they are going to school – as well as internships, seasonal and volunteer work – to gain hands-on experience within their respective fields.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is set to begin accepting students into its newest master’s degree offering – a Master of Science in Nursing, nursing education. The application for admission will open in January, with classes set to begin in Fall 2021.

In an effort to provide additional opportunities to serve students, Enrollment Management is extending office hours and opening on one Saturday per month during the Fall 2020 semester. The offices offering extended hours – until 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays (Aug. 29, Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 21 and Dec.

The Student Government Association's 2020-21 Executive Board and the organization's senators were sworn in during this past week's first meeting of the Fall 2020 semester. Ethan M. McKenzie, 2020-21 president of Penn College's Student Government Association, presides over Wednesday's swearing-in ceremony.

Two of five $5,000 scholarships recently awarded by the National Association of Oil and Energy Service Professionals and its co-sponsors have benefited the same pair of Pennsylvania College of Technology students as last year. Scholarships have again gone to Peter W. Bennett, of Sea Cliff, New York, and Ian H. West, of Hummelstown.