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PCToday continues its regular feature: welcoming new full-time and regular part-time Pennsylvania College of Technology employees, as reported by the Human Resources Office. Stephen Reed, Food Service Worker, Susquehanna Room, (Regular Part-Time), starting Feb. 16 Cynthia Ennis, Library Circulation Supervisor, Evenings, Madigan Library, beginning Feb.

Electronics Students Ben D. Wenger (right) and F. David Nevill show their automated inspection vision system. Pennsylvania College of Technology was among 25 invited exhibitors at the Career and Technical Education celebration Feb. 10-11 in the East Wing Rotunda of the Capitol Building in Harrisburg.

Pennsylvania College of Technology coach Chad Karstetter is pleased with what his archers have shown so far this young season, and with good reason. First, at the PA State Indoor Championships in Taylor on Jan. 31, two Wildcats recorded first-place finishes one of them setting a new state record in the process. Then, at the World Archery Festival Feb.

Retirees volunteered to help choose photos from the Penn College Archives for an upcoming exhibit in The Gallery at Penn College. The exhibit, which will be displayed on the third floor of the Madigan Library during Homecoming (Oct. 9-11), will feature a retrospective of images from the college and forerunners Williamsport Technical Institute and Williamsport Area Community College.

State Sen. Gene Yaw has been appointed to serve on the Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors. Yaw, who was elected in November to represent the 23rd Senatorial District, succeeds former state Sen. Roger A. Madigan on the Penn College Board. Madigan retired as the 23rd District's senator in 2008; he had served on the college's board since 1991.

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

Several orchids are in bloom at the Schneebeli Earth Science Center greenhouse, part of a collection from donations to the School of Natural Resources Management over the years. Lana G. Baker, greenhouse attendant, said students have used the flowers and plants in floral-design work, and have been exposed to the different soils and growing conditions that the orchid varieties require.

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.