Events Articles

An Employee and Student Wellness Fair, sponsored by Penn College's Wellness Committee, was held this week in Penn's Inn and in the first-floor lobby of the Bush Campus Center. A variety of health and fitness vendors were on-site, offering free screenings, demonstrations, samples and door prizes at Tuesday's five-hour event. Photos by Michael S. Fischer, student photographer

A spring car show, sponsored by The Pennsylvania College of Technology Colony of Sigma Nu Fraternity, will be held Saturday, May 1, on the college's main campus in Williamsport. Students, faculty and staff, and the public are invited to show their vehicles at the second annual event, scheduled for the parking lot of the Carl Building Technologies Center.

Prints and Paintings," featuring work by Lauren Schiller and Tom Baker, will be on display at The Gallery at Penn College through May 2. An opening reception for the show was held Tuesday evening, preceded by a lecture in the first-floor Presentation Room of the Student and Administrative Services Center and an artists' talk in the gallery. Hours are 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 2-8 p.m.

The Northeastern Pennsylvania Interprofessional Education Coalition, founded by The Commonwealth Medical College, hosted four collaborative seminars April 13 to promote teamwork and gain an understanding of various health professionals' roles in improving quality and safety in patient care.

Mushrooms, whether harvested in the wild or plucked from the produce aisle, will be the subject of the Spring Madigan Library Forum at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Frank M. Suchwala, instructor of hospitality management/culinary arts in the college's School of Hospitality, will present "Mushrooms: Fun to Forage, Fun to Eat" in the library's second-floor reading loft from 4 to 5 p.m.

The School of Health Sciences offered an in-service for its clinical preceptors April 9. Darby Lewes, an English faculty member at Lycoming College, offered a workshop titled "Portrait of a Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Students." The school offers the in-service annually to its preceptors, who can earn continuing education units for their attendance.

Penn College's Student Government Association held a silent auction from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday in Penn's Inn. All of the proceeds from the event,collected from bids on the many items donated by members of the college community,will be added to the Student Leader Legacy Scholarship Fund .

The Sigma Nu fraternity raised $300 for Penn College's Walk-It-Out benefit, holding a Chili Cook-Off in the atrium of the Breuder Advanced Technology and Health Sciences Center from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday. For a donation to the American Cancer Society, participants such as Keith M. Saboski, student activities assistant (at rear left)could sample a variety of chili and vote for their favorite.

On Tuesday, April 27, the Cisco Networking Academy at Penn College will host the Cisco Systems Network on Wheels. The newly refreshed NOW van has received a complete technology facelift. The entire architecture has been rebuilt to showcase the latest and most comprehensive Cisco solutions.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will host an April 24 session to encourage a continuing interest in science and math by 10th- and 11th-grade girls. Penn College's Science and Math Applications in Real-World Technologies (SMART Girls) project was developed to counter girls' worrisome tendency to shun math and the sciences as they move through their crucial high school years.