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Wilson College recently announced the winners of its 9th annual juried high school student art exhibition, which runs through Dec. 6 in the Bogigian Gallery in Wilson's Lortz Hall.

The Wilson College Choir will hold its fall concert, which is free and open to the public, at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 24, in the Thomson Hall chapel.

Students in Wilson College Prof. Thomas Armstrong's "Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management" class, as well as students from Penn State Mont Alto Adjunct Prof. Alan Rock's "Small Business Management" course, will pitch their ideas for business startups to a roomful of observers─including a panel of business experts─on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

A one-night exhibition of original works of art by seven Wilson College students will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, at SpringHill Suites Mariott, 451 Gateway Ave., Chambersburg. The event is part of a quarterly series by SpringHill Suites called the Art of Local, and is free and open to the public.

Orchesis, the Wilson College dance company, will present its fall performance at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 14, 15 and 16, with a Saturday matinee at 2 p.m.. The show, which is open to the public, will be held in the Appenzellar-Buchanan Dance Studio in Davison Hall. 

More than 100 nursing students from four different area schools converged on the campus of Wilson College Saturday, Oct. 26, for “Community Simulation Day”─a mass casualty scenario where, with help from local community emergency response crews, students practiced assessing and treating “victims” of a mock shooting.

Wilson College today announced the appointment of Dr. Wesley R. Fugate as the 20th president in the 150-year history of the college.

Wilson College threw itself a birthday bash over the weekend that included a host of homecoming activities, a ribbon-cutting for a new veterinary education center, the naming of an outdoor space for a former president and the coup de grâce─a formal gala featuring a performance by a world-renowned children’s orchestra.

FREDERICK, Md.─Wilson College and Frederick Community College (FCC) have finalized an agreement that guarantees qualified FCC students admission to Wilson bachelor’s degree programs and allows them to transfer all credits earned with a grade of C or better.

The Wilson College Veterinary Medical Technology Club will hold its popular dog wash from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 26 and 27. The location this year has changed to the new college veterinary education center next to Lortz Hall and the Brooks Science Center. The dog washes are open to the public.