Events Articles

A student-sponsored gospel concert, free and open to the public, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, in the Klump Academic Center on Pennsylvania College of Technology's main campus in Williamsport. The event, which features a variety of performances, is sponsored by the college's Multicultural Society.

Twelve Penn College early childhood education students volunteered at Saturday's grand opening of the James V. Brown Library's Kathryn Siegel-Welch Children's Wing. They assisted children with crafts and making snacks, and also guided Dugout, the Little League mascot, as he visited with attendees.

The International Programs Office, along with the School of Integrated Studies, welcomed guest speaker Edwin Barnhart to Penn College's Klump Academic Center Auditorium on Monday. More than 350 people attended, the majority of them students, to hear his lecture on the Maya calendar and its supposed prediction of the end of time in 2012.

"Beauty, Vulnerability and Inevitability," a collection of paintings by Ed Wong-Ligda, officially opened Tuesday evening in The Gallery at Penn College, where the exhibit will remain through March 6. An opening reception took place on the third floor of The Madigan Library, preceded by an artist's lecture in the Student and Administrative Services Center and followed by a talk in the gallery.

Tuesday night's Create-a-Gift program, held in the Bush Campus Center lobby and sponsored by the Wildcat Events Board, provided students with the opportunity to stuff plush bears as Valentine's Day gifts. Photos by Jessica L. Tobias, student photographer

This year's Walk-It-Out slogan says it all: "On our way to $10K." The planning committee is setting its goal high and needs your help. Registration is open for Walk-It-Out 2009, Penn College's walk-a-thon for the American Cancer Society, to be held from noon-6 p.m. Saturday, April 25, on the Madigan Library lawn.

"Introduction to Steel-Joist Products," a free presentation by a civil engineer, will be held from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Klump Academic Center Auditorium. The presenter will be Kevin W. Smith, engineering manager of CMC Joist and Deck, New Columbia, a division of Commercial Metals Co.

The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, will host "Beauty, Vulnerability and Inevitability," a collection of paintings by Ed Wong-Ligda, from Feb. 10 to March 6. This exhibit comprises three separate but related bodies of work that examine beauty, vulnerability and the inevitability of change.

A concert scheduled for Feb. 15 in The Gallery at Penn College, on the third floor of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Madigan Library, has been postponed. Because of a hand injury suffered by classical guitarist and Penn College alumnus Alphonse Ciaccio, the concert he was to perform will be postponed until fall.

Pennsylvania College of Technology will host a renowned Washington, D.C., chef and restaurateur in February as part of its Visiting Chef Series. The series invites accomplished chefs to the college's campus to mentor and work alongside students in the college's School of Hospitality over several days, culminating in the elaborate Visiting Chef dinner to benefit scholarship funds.