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Westminster College will host more than 900 students from 50 area schools to participate in the northwestern regional Science Olympiad competition on Friday, March 28.

The competition runs from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., and features middle school and high school students' science projects and experiments.  "Bottle Rocket," "Crime Buster,"  "Disease Detective," and "Robot Ramble," are just four of 35 highly-visual experiments that will be educational as well as fun for spectators.

Sherri Slafka, senior public relations and Spanish major at Westminster College, was recently awarded the 2007 Bob O'Gara Scholarship Award, previously called the Outstanding Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Student in Public Relations Renaissance Award, from the Pittsburgh chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).

Dr. Edward Cohen, Westminster College associate professor of political science and chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology, was an invited presenter at the sixth Pan-European International Relations Conference in Turin, Italy, Sept. 12-15.

Dr. Pamela Richardson, Westminster College assistant professor of mathematics, will present "Nonassociative Algebra (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Parentheses)" at the final spring semester Faires Faculty Forum on Wednesday, April 30, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater in the McKelvey Campus Center.

Dr. Richard Sprow, Westminster College professor of English, will present "John Irving: The Artist as Portrait" as the third in the 2008-2009 Bleasby Colloquium Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Bethany Hicok, Westminster College associate professor of English, will present "'Revolutionary Intersections': Freud, Modernism, and Belief in Wallace Stevens" at the Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.

An article authored by Dr. Russell Martin, Westminster College associate professor of history, was published in the summer 2010 issue of Slavic Review, the official publication of the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies (ASEES).

Dr. James Rhoads, Westminster College professor of political science, presented papers at the annual meetings of two organizations.

Dr. Jeffrey Boerner, Westminster College assistant professor of mathematics, will present "The Mathematical Study of Shape: An Introduction to Topology" at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Three Westminster College junior mathematics majors and their adviser attended the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) MathFest celebration  Aug. 2-4 in Madison, Wis.