Events Articles

The 2020 edition of the Student Engagement Office's Murder Mystery Dinner is scheduled for Leap Day – Saturday, Feb. 29 – in the Mountain Laurel Room of Penn College's Thompson Professional Development Center. Tickets for students ($16.95; flex or declining balance) and for faculty and staff ($19.95) are available online.

An expanded and enhanced welding lab – at 55,000-plus square feet, believed to be the largest such facility in higher education nationwide – was dedicated on Feb. 6 at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Welding Expansion Project, funded in part by a $2 million grant from the U.S.

The winter version of Student Affairs' popular “Hot Dog, You’re Back!” mixer, recently held in the Field House, provided an opportunity for Penn College students to get reacclimated in the company of friendly pets and the faculty/staff bipeds who cherish them. The now-biannual event has proved to be among the campus's most popular since it debuted in 2010.

The Horticulture Club will hold a Valentine's Day sale from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 13-14 in front of CC Commons (Bush Campus Center, first floor). Members will be selling succulents and various interior plants, roses, and roses in bud vases. Vases can be pre-ordered, with pickup and payment during the sale. Everything else is "cash and carry" on sale days.

Dixon (at front) delivers insights on sensory processing. Scanlon (at computer, at right) and other members of the association’s central region listen in Penn College’s early childhood education lab. The Pennsylvania Association for Infant Mental Health’s Central Region members held a networking breakfast on Friday in Penn College's early childhood education lab.

A "Help Wanted Fair & Student Org Expo" was held Tuesday afternoon in the Field House, where attendees talked to Williamsport area businesses about part-time employment and internships, as well as gathering information on leadership opportunities with a variety of campus organizations. – Photos by Tim Wegman, student photographer

On the back of successful tours in 2015, 2016 and 2018, "Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story," the show that inspired a generation of phenomenally popular jukebox musicals that includes "Jersey Boys" and Mamma Mia," is coming to the Community Arts Center at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23.

He’s loud, feisty and angry. But Lewis Black is also inclusive. He wants northcentral Pennsylvania residents to contribute to the rants and laughs that will reverberate throughout Williamsport’s Community Arts Center. The acclaimed comedian brings his “It Gets Better Every Day” tour to the performing arts venue on Saturday, Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m.

Penn College students, faculty and staff were among nearly 430 volunteers at a "Pack and Share" event in the Lycoming College Recreation Center during the Jan. 20 kickoff of "Dream Week," using their Martin Luther King Jr. holiday from offices and classrooms to better their community.

A large gallery crowd gathers to listen to the artist’s talk. Backdropped by one of her hand-cut creations, Nguyen shares her process. Peeking from behind the main work, the shadow of a mythological, horned jackrabbit delights on teal-colored paper. Hand-cut “ginkgo leaves” spill out from the base of one of the artist’s lace-like works.