A cultural interchange between Pennsylvania College of Technology and visitors from North West Regional College in Northern Ireland – a two-week whirlwind that was five years in the making – came to a close with memories indelibly shared and lives irrevocably altered. Ten students and ...
ENOLA, Pa. — Anna L. Gawel, Assistant Principal of Hershey Elementary School, 4th and 5th grades, in the Derry Township School District, has been named Pennsylvania’s 2023 Outstanding Assistant Principal of the Year by the Pennsylvania Principals Association. As a state winner in the ...
“A Week With Waffles,” an interactive chronicle of a guinea pig’s delightful day-to-day adventures, received two honors in the Reader Views 2022-23 Literary Awards competition. The book, authored by Pennsylvania College of Technology writer/video producer Tom Speicher and illustrated by Argentinian artist Marina Saumell, is a Gold Medal winner in the preschool/toddler category and was selected for the Best Children’s Picture Book Award. “I am humbled by the reaction to the book. Waffles was a wonderful pet, and I’m glad that many readers, especially children, have found ...
In her memoir “Art: Why I Stuck with a Junkie Jazzman,” Laurie Pepper describes a particularly challenging recording session for her late husband, alto-sax legend Art Pepper: “He dragged himself out of the quicksand of that chart, ignoring it, at last, relying just on what he heard inside. It sounded as if he was ripping his own guts out in the studio. He was magnificent, and when he heard the take he knew it.” The Summer 2023 issue of Brilliant Corners features an interview with Laurie Pepper, focusing largely on that memoir as well as Straight Life: The Story of Art Pepper, ...
Eight Pennsylvania College of Technology students were among 529 entrants from across the country who took part in the National Collegiate Landscape Competition, held recently at Mississippi State University. Sophia G. Wiest, a landscape/plant production technology student from Butler, ...
Phoebe Wagner, Ph.D., Lycoming College assistant professor of English, is releasing her debut novella. Titled “When We Hold Each Other Up: A Solarpunk Novella,” the book mixes the sci-fi, fantasy and solarpunk genres. It is being published by Android Press, and comes out on Tuesday, April ...
