Students Articles

Thirty nursing students at Pennsylvania College of Technology took the topic of community health literally when they put in time at the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. The students are enrolled in a course called Community Health Nursing.

Samantha-Jo M. Bradley, a baking and pastry arts major from Middlebury Center, has been chosen as the Student of the Month at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Bradley, who anticipates graduating in May, is a member and secretary of the Penn College Diners Club and serves as a Community Assistant for students in off-campus housing. Samantha-Jo M.

Participants receive appropriate T-shirts. Occupational therapy assistant student Gabrielle M. Leister has her face painted by a classmate. Decked for the occasion in glow paint, face paint and general pink splatters are, from left, pre-dental hygiene student Kirsta J. Ruble, pre-applied health studies: radiography student Gina M. Pucillo, and pre-occupational therapy assistant student Rachel E.

Eight students place their freshly carved pumpkins on display for judging by some of the Growers Market’s youngest visitors. Winners were selected in three categories: funniest (to the one-eyed creation on the left), scariest (to the bat, third from left) and most original (to the VW bus on the right). Bradley M.

Bloomsburg University Cadet Wyatt C. Smeltzer tactically moves through the woods during a weekend training exercise. Susquehanna University Cadet Blaine L. Hutchison records one of his daytime land-navigation points. Cadets from around the upper Susquehanna Valley completed their final field training exercise of 2013 at Bloomsburg University this past weekend.

Assembling a committed team of fundraisers in less than a month, Pennsylvania College of Technology students are now part of Penn State’s THON fight against pediatric cancer. Echoing the rallying cry of “For the kids,” nearly 30 members of the Penn College Benefiting THON student organization volunteered for the season’s first weekend of “canning” (Sept. 27-29).

A registry drive for bone-marrow donors, held to find potential matches to aid patients with diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma, will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (in the Keystone Dining Room) and from 4-7 p.m. (in Dauphin Hall's Capitol Eatery).

Human services students at Pennsylvania College of Technology are inviting the community to join them in sleeping on the streets in a cardboard “box city” on Friday, Nov. 1, in downtown Williamsport. Starting at 5 p.m., students enrolled in Sociology 410 (Service Learning in Sociology) will gather in front of the Lycoming County Courthouse at West Third and Pine streets.

Two-hundred employers – including a number of Fortune 500 companies – were at Penn College for this week's Career Fair, looking across the expanse of  "degrees that work" to fill more than 2,475 jobs and internships.

All 24 students from the dental hygiene program graduating class of 2013 at Pennsylvania College of Technology passed the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination. The written exam assists state boards in determining the qualifications of those who seek licensure to practice dental hygiene.