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Eric Stuart, who has voiced characters for such hit shows as “Pokémon” and “Yu-Gi-Oh!” and toured with rock legends including Peter Frampton and Ringo Starr, will be among the industry luminaries at Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Sept. 27 Wildcat Comic Con.

The Gallery at Penn College has announced its ninth season of engaging art exhibits for the 2014-15 academic year at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Special exhibitions honoring the 75th  anniversary of Little League Baseball and the 100th anniversary of the college are among the offerings, as well as displays of denim, oil, embroidery, photography and bronze creations.

The "mock" trade show that ended this week's four-and-a-half-day SMART Girls session proved to be the real deal, indeed, offering display after display by young women who showed as much heart as they did skill.

Ned Martin Fiona Powell's recent radio interview with Ned Martin, whose "Before and After" exhibit runs through Sunday, has been posted to WVIA FM’s “ArtScene” web page. Summer hours for the gallery, on the third floor of Madigan Library, are 1-4 p.m. Sunday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.

Campers design logos in the Mac lab. Participants get game-creation guidance from Spyke M. Krepshaw, instructor of computer information technology, and Anita R. Wood, assistant professor of computer information technology ... ... and Adobe Illustrator pointers from Nicholas L. Stephenson, graphic design instructor.

Eric K. Albert, associate professor of machine tool technology/automated manufacturing, leads participants (who come from a wide variety of Pennsylvania counties) through an "Innovation Station: Product Design" session. Intently tending to the project at hand SMART Girls wave from the Hiawatha riverboat. Pizza in the park!

A textbook swing in a storybook setting Among those gathered around the visiting pro as he scopes out the landscape are Marc E. Bridgens, the college's dean of construction and design technologies (left); Wildcatgolf coach Matt Haile (in blue shirt and sunglasses, behind Bohn); and Barry R. Stiger, vice president for institutional advancement (in yellow hat, at right).

A volunteer "accident victim" is immobilized for transport in the paramedic lab. Campers "crunch" their way through exercises in the physical fitness lab. Jeanne M. Kerschner, clinical director of occupational therapy assistant, helps students appreciate difficulties performing everyday tasks ... ... challenging them to put on socks with the help of adaptive equipment.

The power and potential of art to heal and inspire will be demonstrated in the exhibit “Before and After,” opening Thursday, May 29, at The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Madigan Library.

Baking and pastry arts students at Pennsylvania College of Technology recently furnished a lavish “Grand Pastry Buffet” for the college’s scholarship donors and recipients, showcasing two years of education.