The Gallery at Penn College Articles

The media spotlight on Penn College's expanded welding lab shone brightly – and nationally – this week, attracting a visit from Philadelphia-based FOX News reporter Katie Byrne. The multimedia journalist spent much of Tuesday morning in the Lycoming Engines Metal Trades Center, talking with students and administration from the School of Industrial, Computing & Engineering Technologies.

“Yellow It Out,” an annual initiative aimed at suicide prevention and awareness, was marked with a number of campuswide events that brightly illuminated a most noteworthy topic.

An expanded and enhanced welding lab – at 55,000-plus square feet, believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide – was dedicated on Feb. 6 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Welding Expansion Project, funded in part by a $2 million grant from the U.S.

The winter version of Student Affairs' popular “Hot Dog, You’re Back!” mixer, recently held in the Field House, provided an opportunity for Penn College students to get reacclimated in the company of friendly pets and the faculty/staff bipeds who cherish them. The now-biannual event has proved to be among the campus's most popular since it debuted in 2010.

A "Help Wanted Fair & Student Org Expo" was held Tuesday afternoon in the Field House, where attendees talked to Williamsport area businesses about part-time employment and internships, as well as gathering information on leadership opportunities with a variety of campus organizations. – Photos by Tim Wegman, student photographer

Penn College students, faculty and staff were among nearly 430 volunteers at a "Pack and Share" event in the Lycoming College Recreation Center during the Jan. 20 kickoff of "Dream Week," using their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday from offices and classrooms to better their community.

In a bright, clean kitchen across town from their usual classrooms and laboratories, students majoring in culinary arts and other fields at Pennsylvania College of Technology learn more about food security, one of many considerations students discover as they explore the topic of food “sustainability.” Food Sustainability is a course designed for students in the college’s hospitality majors, but a

A large gallery crowd gathers to listen to the artist’s talk. Backdropped by one of her hand-cut creations, Nguyen shares her process. Peeking from behind the main work, the shadow of a mythological, horned jackrabbit delights on teal-colored paper. Hand-cut “ginkgo leaves” spill out from the base of one of the artist’s lace-like works.

Penn College’s inspiring majors made their customary splash throughout the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg (Jan. 4-11), as a rotating regiment of subject experts satisfied each day's crowds – intellectually and nutritionally – at the nation’s largest indoor agricultural expo.

Gathering the Names” is the first exhibit of 2020 at The Gallery at Penn College, located on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Madigan Library. Showcasing works by multimedia artist Sarah Nguyen, who uses folklore as a source of artistic inspiration, the exhibit runs Jan. 14 through Feb. 28. A reception is set for Thursday, Jan.