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Twenty-one high school students from seven area school districts participated in the 2024-25 Penn College Youth Leadership Program, an initiative hosted annually by Pennsylvania College of Technology. As part of their engagement, the young leaders took field trips to local resources and community organizations, and they also completed service projects to learn more about leadership as a function of social change.

The north exterior of the Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center is undergoing a makeover this summer. Contractors – with assistance from General Services – are updating the veteran’s tribute area by removing the broken veterans’ fountain and replacing the patio that is in need of repair.

Pennsylvania College of Technology has been awarded a $50,000 state grant to enhance economic and educational development in the Lehigh Valley. Supported, in-part, by the efforts of state Sen. Nick Miller, D-14, chair of the Senate Minority Policy Committee, and state Rep. Peter Schweyer, D-134, majority chair of the House Education Committee, the grant provides backing to develop and grow workforce, economic and educational partnerships within the region.

Shanna P. Wheeler, instructor of English composition and technical communication at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be reading her work, published in "Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania," on Sunday, June 1, at Lycoming Arts Gallery, 46 W. Fourth St. Williamsport. The literary event, celebrating the launch of the anthology, is open to the public and will run from 1 to 3 p.m.

Although women make up just 29% of the manufacturing workforce, Pennsylvania College of Technology alumna Shelby N. Miller is proud to be included in that calculation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It’s a number that she hopes increases in the future. Miller, of Schuylkill Haven, is a manufacturing engineer associate with Lockheed Martin’s Missiles and Fire Control business area.

Beth M. Bittenbender, executive director of operations/special projects for Workforce Development at Pennsylvania College of Technology, is among leaders named to The 2025 Trailblazers in Economic & Workforce Development list, released Tuesday by City & State Pennsylvania.

The Plastics Innovation & Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology delivered training to eight industry professionals during the recent Color Science & Weathering Workshop. The three-day course covered the critical parameters and considerations for coloring plastic materials and focused on weathering technology and evaluation methodologies. Sponsored by Penn Color Inc., the sessions featured lectures and extensive hands-on experience in Penn College’s industry-standard labs.

Very challenging. That describes what the NCAA Division III Men’s Golf Championship became due to a low-pressure weather system that produced wind, rain and cooler-than-normal temperatures for last week’s four-day tournament.

Just as the 2024-25 academic year concluded, Penn College faculty jumped into the 2025 Summer Teaching Institute, held May 19-20. This year’s event featured keynote speaker Christina Katopodis, the Mellon senior research associate at the City University of New York’s Humanities Alliance.

David B. Clark, a former associate professor of chemistry at Pennsylvania College of Technology, died May 14 at the age of 84. Clark began teaching at Penn College’s predecessor institution, Williamsport Area Community College, in 1966 and taught at the college for 39 years, until 2005.