Events Articles

The second annual Wildcat Walk, an initiative of Penn College's Wellness Committee, stepped off at noon Wednesday outside The Madigan Library.

Dean Edward A. Henninger tells guests about Penn College's Student Managed Investment Fund, which uses real money to heighten students' appreciation of the risks and responsibilities involved in portfolio management. Visiting high school students enjoy a "fireside chat" with Paul L. Starkey, vice president for academic affairs/provost.. Sun-Gazette editor David F.

Mark Strachan, of uVu Technologies, discusses the use of lightweight materials in plastic products. Fifty-two participants from across the nation listen to experts during the 2013 Plastics Symposium.

Video from Tuesday's campus visit by the Penn State "Coaches Caravan." a sold-out event that gave hundreds of people the opportunity to meet football coach Bill O'Brien and his counterparts in Nittany Lion field hockey and men's volleyball, has been added to the Penn College YouTube channel. "These kids are students first," O'Brien said of Penn State athletes.

Definitely not a candidate for the "Lowest to the Ground" award Attendees "park" themselves in an optimal spot for fun in the sun. Who WOULDN'T smile on such a beautiful day?

A sold-out lunch at the Penn College Field House kicked off the second week of the Penn State Coaches Caravan on Tuesday morning. Nittany Lion football coach Bill O'Brien, who is headlining the bus tour on all 12 of its stops, was joined in his local visit by Char Morett, field hockey coach, and Mark Pavlik, coach of the Penn State men's volleyball team.

Tim Russ, a member of the “Star Trek Voyager” cast whose television and film appearances are just part of a three-decade performing-arts career, will be the closing speaker for the second Wildcat Comic Con to be held Sept. 28 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Russ portrayed Lt. Cmdr. Tuvok, the U.S.S.

For the second year in a row, the Off-Campus Housing Organization, Wildcat Events Board and Penn College's Community Assistants combined two popular campus traditions – the former Vine Avenue block party and the WEBstock festival – to create one huge end-of-semester bash.

Students mired in the anxiety of Finals Prep had two opportunities for respite this past week, one of them a long-running campus tradition and the other a more recent addition to the Penn College stress-relief menu. Now in its 16th year,  Midnight Breakfast was held Thursday night in the Capitol Eatery.

A record crowd of 134 guests attended Sunday's Grand Pastry Buffet, a scrumptious culmination of course work for baking and pastry arts seniors and an acknowledgement by scholarship recipients of the donors who have smoothed their road to a Penn College diploma.