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Earlier this month, EarthSmart Club members did their semiannual road cleanup along their 2-mile stretch of Northway Road. After working for an hour and a half, the group had filled up several garbage bags with discarded cans and newspaper and then headed to a local restaurant for pizza.
Master Baker Didier Rosada is on campus this week to work with students and to offer presentations as part of the William C. Butler Lecture Series.
Two workshops recognizing Disability Awareness Month "Assistive Technology: Facilitating Access Inside and Outside of the Classroom" and "Facilitating Communication With Students Who Are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing"were held this week on campus. In photo, School of Hospitality student Alyssa J. Giedroc explains an FM listening system to Peggy A. Barbour, Advisement Center specialist.
On Thursday, Penn College hosted a talk for area health-care providers by State Secretary of Health Dr. Calvin B. Johnson, who addressed issues of health literacy. The event was sponsored by the Lycoming County Health Improvement Coalition health literacy task force to stress the importance of health literacy in health care.
Nursing students Samantha M. Carey, of Montoursville (center), and Angela M. Kubarek, of Benton, staffed an informational display in the Bush Campus Center on Wednesday during an ongoing observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Among those stopping by their table was Andrew S. Wisner, president of the Student Government Association and a welding technology major from York.
The American Red Cross and Student Health Services are "very thankful for the giving attitude of the Penn College community" for the continued success at Wednesday's Bloodmobile in the Bush Campus Center, where 170 pints were collected exactly fulfilling theday's goal. There were 63 first-time donors, and every pint goes toward saving another life.
Steven R. Parker, an instructor of environmental technology at Penn College, presented a program in the Madigan Library on Tuesday describing his experiences helping American Indian tribes nationwide fight "agroterrorism" the intentional attempt to compromise the country's food supply. Parker, an agroterrorism "master trainer," was contracted by the U.S.
Two Penn College librarians gave a presentation during the Pennsylvania Library Association's annual conference, held Oct. 14-17 at The Penn Stater Conference Center. Georgia R. Laudenslager (at left in photo) and Tracey Amey delivered a "poster session" about an audio tour of the new Madigan Library that is available via podcast.
Cross-country runners Greg Kammerle of Willow Grove , a graduate of Upper Moreland High School , and Tamara Pavlov of Lewisburg, a graduate of Lewisburg Area High School , have been named Pennsylvania College of Technology "Co-Student-Athletes of the Week" for Oct. 15-21.
The noncredit course "Introduction to American Sign Language" will be offered at Pennsylvania College of Technology from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays from Oct. 30 through Nov. 20. The class will meet in the college's Center for Business & Workforce Development, 1127 W. Fourth St., Williamsport.