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The United States Collegiate Athletic Association has named Penn College senior Skylar Gingrich, of Lititz, as its baseball Player of the Week for the period ending April 22. Gingrich went 13 for 21 (.619) on the week, racking up 18 RBI and totaling five extra-base hits: two doubles, a triple and two home runs.

Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour gamely kept her end of a charitable bargain Tuesday afternoon, kissing a cow in the parking lot of the Student and Administrative Services Center. The president was the voters' favorite during the $350 fundraiser for the Alternative Spring Break community-service initiative, which this year took students to Heifer International in Arkansas.

In an Earth Day tradition (and on a typically unpredictable April day that saw traces of all four seasons), about 90 fifth-graders visited Penn College's Schneebeli Earth Science Center to celebrate the great outdoors. Moving among hands-on information stations staffed by forest technology students organized by professor Dennis F.

Several members of the Penn College Martial Arts Club completed a successful season Saturday by being promoted in rank.

The Pennsylvania College of Technology Athletics Department honored the graduating members of the baseball team Saturday, as well as the 2011-12 Penn State UniversityAthletic Conference Championship Wrestling Squad. The following day, as a regional tournament drew to a close, "Senior Day" was also held for members of the Wildcat archery team.

Penn College's School of Health Sciences hosted its fourth 5K Walk/Run on Saturday to support a scholarship for students in the college's health sciences majors. Net proceeds from the race support the School of Health Sciences Endowed Scholarship Fund, with the goal of building the fund to an endowment of at least $25,000, after which it will become a permanent source of scholarship awards.

Students in MTH 156 (Mathematics in Non-European Cultures) presented their study abroad projects in the Bush Campus Center TV Lounge this past week. The group traveled to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and studied the Mayan civilization. The Penn College community is welcome to sign up for next year's overland adventure through the rain forests and lowlands of the Mayan world.

Team SchuPa will run the Rivertown Half Marathon in Danville on May 5 to support the Chester D. Schuman Scholarship, memorializing Penn College's longtime admissions director and golf coach. Some of the team members are pictured with members of the Schuman family, sporting the team T-shirt designed by the Schumans' daughter, Lauren, a 2005 Penn College graduate.

Archery and baseball were in the spotlight for Penn College athletics over the past week. Saturday and Sunday, Wildcat archers stood out as they hosted the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships by recording three individual firsts, two team firsts and had 14 named to the All-East team.

Twenty senior students in the graphic design major at Pennsylvania College of Technology will display the best of their collegiate portfolio, as judged by graphic design faculty, during the "Design: 2012" exhibit at The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of the Madigan Library.