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The Residence Life Office is pleased to announce election results, which wereshared atWednesday's Residence Hall Association meeting. The President's Cabinet for next year is: Collin Zimmerman, president; David Bateman, vice president; Jeff Pacheco, National Conference Coordinator; Bill Hofmann, secretary; and Jackie Daniels, treasurer.

Through community partnerships, Pennsylvania College of Technology students are offering their skills at health fairs throughout Lycoming County, including ongoing events at county granges and an event at a local pharmacy.

Student nurses from Pennsylvania College of Technology are spending time during the spring semester working with local senior citizens who reside in apartment complexes managed by the Warrior Run Development Corp.

The Student Government Association is proud to announce the results from last week's seven-day online election for its 2007-08 Executive Board. "Although we did not have a turnout that I would have liked to see, almost 3 percent of the student body voted this year beating the 2-percent national average for student government voting turnouts.

Three Penn College students will share $175 in prize money for their winning entries in the Madigan Library's "To Kill a Mockingbird" essay contest.

Wildlife Management students conducted their yearly controlled burn on state game lands near Penn College's Earth Science Center on Tuesday, killing invasive plants in designated areas and thanks to the day's breezy conditions gaining hands-on experience in the spread and subsequent control of wildfires.

A dozen students from Pennsylvania College of Technology's School of Natural Resources Management recently participated in 16 horticulture-related events at the Professional Landscape Network's Student Career Days competition at Michigan State University. Two of the students finished near the top of their respective categories during the March 29-to-April 1 event: Anthony S.

Five Pennsylvania College of Technology students earned gold medals at the recent Pennsylvania SkillsUSA Conference, qualifying them for national competition from June 26-29 in Kansas City, Mo. They were among the 12 Penn College competitors who returned with medals from the statewide competition, which was held March 28-30 at the Lehigh Career and Technical Institute in Allentown.

Students enrolled in "Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy"stand in front of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, where they ventured Saturday to view the current exhibit titled "Home & Beast." The museum, in operation since 1995, features the works of self-taught artists, many of whom struggled with psychological maladies at some time in their lives.

Pennsylvania College of Technology students used Lycoming County Big Read's featured novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, as their muse for book jacket designs that both fill course requirements and adorn area Big Read venues. The students were rewarded for the efforts on March 26 at Borders bookstore in the Lycoming Mall.