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Steven Pander and Ralph Mulneix, both of Portersville, were among ten Butler County Community College students who received $7,500 this fall in programs that emphasize cybersecurity education and that have collectively grown in enrollment by 32 percent since January. The distribution of financial awards through the use of a U.S. Department of Defense grant brings to at least $32,287 the amount BC3 has provided in 2023 to students in four associate degree career programs and in one associate degree transfer program within its business and information technology division. BC3 has applied $18,500 toward tuition and expenses for 19 students, $12,037 to…

She’ll slide the round, dark-wood table from the living room, where she and her intellectually disabled 24-year-old son will have watched the morning parades on television, into the dining room. Fifty-eight-year-old widow Marci Lockhart will then smooth the wrinkles on an “autumn-colored” cloth. Light a “pumpkin spice-scented” candle. And return to the kitchen. That’s where the 15-pound turkey she will have begun to roast for her and Ralph the night before “will smell delicious.” Just after noon Thursday, she will sit next to Ralph, the second-youngest of the five children she raised after her husband, Richard, passed away in 2007,…

(New Castle, PA) After graduating from Neshannock Senior High School in 2020, Terence Rice attended a Pennsylvania public four-year institution, realized he “didn’t like it” and later transferred to BC3 @ Lawrence Crossing in New Castle. “I wish I would have chosen BC3 from the beginning,” he said. “The quality of my education here at BC3 has just been phenomenal.” Rice, who expects to graduate in May from BC3 @ Lawrence Crossing with an associate degree in accounting, is among students praising BC3’s selection as the No. 1 community college in Pennsylvania for a ninth time since 2015. BestColleges.com analyzed…

Butler, PA – Jason Adamson and Luke Veon measured each other’s leg lengths and arm heights  near parallel bars, treatment tables and a hospital bed rigged with a patient lift. Outside that laboratory, Victoria Clawson, Allison Coleman and Molly Grossman learned to navigate wheelchairs through a long hallway. Across the hallway, Jaydn Best, Megan Brink and Lilli Schoettker sat aside a series of massage therapy tables and heard about the differences between neoplasia and hyperplasia, congenital disorders and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Down the hallway – past skills laboratory after skills laboratory after skills laboratory housing hospital beds occupied by manikins…