University Times

Pitt-Bradford’s petroleum technology program has received $13,500 from an annual oil and gas industry charity auction for equipment and scholarships.

Each full-time student in the program will receive $250 and each part-time student $125.

Assad Panah, director of the petroleum technology program and professor of geology, said two desktop computers and a Trimble handheld computer designed for field data collection were purchased with the donation. The program also was able to purchase a ProScope HR, the world’s first handheld digital microscope, which can let students see samples in the field at magnifications of 30-100 times.

The donation also funded the purchase of 12 pocket stereoscopes for interpreting enhanced aerial photos that appear three dimensional, and high-powered hand magnifying lenses and surveying tools to collect geologic field data and measure rock layers.