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A group of Pennsylvania College of Technology students will help to serve thousands of hungry horse-racing fans at the 2011 Kentucky Derby on May 7. The students were interviewed on the Penn College campus and selected by Levy Restaurants representatives. Levy is responsible for food operations at many sports arenas and entertainment venues across the United States.

Seven students from Gamma Epsilon Tau, the graphic arts and printing honors fraternity, and their adviser, Tom Tyberg, assistant professor of graphic communications, recently ventured to Washington, D.C., where they attended the On-Demand Expo, a print-related trade show that focuses on variable-data printing and short-run, quick-turnaround printing.

Human services students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will present an Assistive Technology Expo on April 29 in the college's Field House. The expo, scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature a broad range of services and equipment to assist individuals with disabilities. The displays will focus on mobility, communication and education.

"When you signed up for my class, I bet you never thought you'd be doing this," forestry instructor Jack E. Fisher told two Penn College students, while they gamely swept bat droppings into buckets Monday.

The Penn College Wildcat crisscrossed main campus Friday, giving "paws" to thank faculty/staff who donated to the Tracy A. Garis Memorial Scholarship in return for permission to "dress down." Accompanied by Gregory J.

Thirteen students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management recently attended the Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days competition in Joliet, Ill. Horticulture faculty members Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professor, and Carl J.

Students in Penn College's graphic communications management major experienced the papermaking process firsthand during a recent tour of the American Eagle Paper Mill in Tyrone. The plant has been in existence formore than 100 years, for much of that time making paper in the traditional way of using wood.

The Gardasil vaccine for human papillomavirus is available free to walk-ins at the Student Health Center (CC, Room 150) from 8-11 a.m. and 2-7 p.m. daily. Gardasil is a vaccine indicated for the prevention of cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancers; precancerous or dysplastic lesions; and genital warts caused by HPV Types 6, 11, 16 and 18.

Pennsylvania College of Technology's Residence Life Office salutes its most praiseworthy students and programs from the start of the spring semester. Chosen as the Resident Assistant of the Month for January/February was Dauphin Hall's Stephania Karoullas, a dental hygiene major from Landisville. "Stephanie can be relied on for tasks above and beyond her normal duties,"staff wrote.

A junior in Pennsylvania College of Technology's four-year aviation maintenance technology major has been awarded a $2,000 scholarship from the Aircraft Electronics Association. Terrence A. Heim, of Malvern, on track to graduate in May 2012 from the college's School of Transportation Technology, will receive the Garmin Scholarship during the 2011-12 academic year.