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On the threshold of their graduation from Pennsylvania College of Technology, 18 architecture & sustainable design seniors showcased their four years of intensive study in “Architecture & Sustainable Design: Senior Capstone Projects.” Well-wishers and interested onlookers packed The Gallery at Penn College on May 16 for the exhibit’s reception and heard from the designers and their faculty mentors.

Among the many end-of-academic-year events held at Pennsylvania College of Technology, induction ceremonies were conducted by the chapters of two honor societies – Phi Theta Kappa and Alpha Chi. A total of 118 new honor society members were recognized.

The campus community and wider community are reminded of the inaugural Williamsport Main Street Torch Run, set for 5:30 to 7 p.m., Wednesday. Carrying the Special Olympics Flame of Hope, the run begins at Lycoming College and ends at Penn College with a pep rally at the Davie Jane Gilmour Center patio and parking lot, under the large American flag at Penn College's entrance.

Downtown Williamsport and the Pennsylvania College of Technology campus were teeming with joyful graduates and guests, as the college held its three Spring 2025 commencement ceremonies May 16-17 at the Community Arts Center. Nearly 750 students marched in the ceremonies, with approximately 885 having petitioned to graduate. The livestreamed links to the three ceremonies are still available on the Spring 2025 Commencement webpage.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has presented student achievement awards to its Spring 2025 graduates. Commencement ceremonies were held May 16-17 at the Community Arts Center, Williamsport.

Two Army ROTC cadets at Pennsylvania College of Technology marked a milestone two days before receiving their baccalaureate degrees. MacKenzie L. Collins, of Pitman, New Jersey, and Michael J. Giordano, of Palmyra, were commissioned as second lieutenants and assigned to their Army component and branch.

Students in a Pennsylvania College of Technology course that focuses on the history of psychology recently visited Austria and England, where they experienced the cultures and regions that gave birth to the science of the mind and the practice of Western-based counseling and therapy. Eleven students, joined by two faculty members, explored some of the first psychological laboratories and hospitals and toured the homes of pioneering theorists.

Pennsylvania College of Technology Athletics honored student-athletes at the eighth annual Celebrating Athletic Triumphs and Successes ceremony, also known as "The CATS" awards. The ceremony was held in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium.

For the 10th year, Pennsylvania College of Technology has received notification of its Tree Campus Higher Education designation, and students marked the milestone by planting crabapple trees at the college’s Schneebeli Earth Science Center.

Chef Roberto Caporuscio made a return visit to the college’s Global Cuisines & Connections class to demonstrate the 300-year-old art of Neapolitan pizza and to encourage students to take part in a Spring 2026 Global Experience course that takes students on a hands-on culinary tour of Italy.