(Caption and Credit for Photo: Professor Francis Maxin has taught microbiology at Community College of Allegheny County for 60 years, since the school opened in 1966. (Shane Dunlap\/ Trib Live))<\/p>\n
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News<\/p>\n
(Allegheny County, PA) A biology professor at the Community College of Allegheny County has now achieved the Guinness World Record for the\u00a0longest-career\u00a0for a male science instructor.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Francis Maxin was recently surprised by college faculty and administrators with the news of this designation during CCAC\u2019s \u201cAll College Day\u201d\u00a0fall semester launch program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maxin\u00a0had served\u00a059 years and\u00a0245 days\u00a0at CCAC\u2019s Main\u00a0Campus in\u00a0the\u00a0Steel City at the time of the official Guinness World Records designation in May.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has been employed as a biology instructor at the college since September of 1966, which is when it opened, and\u00a0he\u00a0is still a full-time faculty member who is entering his 233rd semester of teaching this fall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Maxin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology\u00a0from Gannon University in 1964 and later earned a Master of Science in Biology from Duquesne University and a Master of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Caption and Credit for Photo: Professor Francis Maxin has taught microbiology at Community College of Allegheny County for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-273093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}