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Two Pennsylvania College of Technology seniors' recent performance makes them eligible for year-end participation in the Business Strategy Game, an online exercise in which teams run fictitious companies in head-to-head competition with their counterparts from around the world. The team of Tina L. Brownson, a business administration-management major from Howard, and Dustin S.

Dusty Brooks, a Resident Assistant in The Village at Penn College, recently received the distinction of being named Pennsylvania College of Technology's "RA of the Month" for the second time.

An article about Penn College's requirement that information technology majors purchase laptop computers is featured in the latest issue of Higher Learning, an electronic publication that focuses on technology-based teaching and learning at postsecondary institutions across the United States and Canada.

Asesh K. Das, professor of computer science at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently participated in the Ninth World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics in Orlando, Fla. His paper, "Unstructured Document Management With a Possibility Theory of Ontology Capture," was named the best in its category at the July 10-13 conference.

An associate professor of business administration at Pennsylvania College of Technology was a presenter at a recent Pennsylvania Economic Association conference, during which he also was elected to the organization's board of directors. Gerald D.

Karen J. Elias, a part-time instructor of English at Pennsylvania College of Technology, had an essay published recently in an anthology. The essay, "Mirror," appears in "Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America," a collection of works edited by Pooja Makhijani and published by Seal Press.

Pennsylvania College of Technology is introducing new educational options focused on travel and tourism and financial planning for Fall 1998. A travel and tourism emphasis is being added to the business management Associate of Applied Science degree.

Visions of chocolate houses are dancing in the heads of Pennsylvania College of Technology students ... and these visions will help dreams come true for needy families. In conjunction with the School of Hospitality's annual food show, the sixth annual "A House for a House" auction will be held Friday, Dec. 5, in Penn's Inn, located in the College's Bush Campus Center.

From France to Phoenix to ... Williamsport. That's the route being taken by one of America's best young chefs as he takes center stage at Pennsylvania College of Technology's next Visiting Chef Dinner, set for Friday, Sept. 12, in Le Jeune Chef Restaurant on the College campus. Chef Christopher J.

A panel discussion on "Career Opportunities for Women in the Hospitality Industry" will be held later this month at Pennsylvania College of Technology: Sponsored by Penn College's School of Hospitality and the Pennsylvania College of Technology Foundation Featured panelists: Chef Traci Des Jardins, Spring, 1997, Distinguished Visiting Chef Chef Susanna Foo, Chef/Owner and Cookbook author Also repr