News Archive

Singer and songwriter Don McLean will perform his Christmas show Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8 p.m. in Westminster College's Orr Auditorium.

The Westminster College Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band will present a concert Friday, May 4, at the Orr Auditorium, and the Westminster College Jazz Ensemble will give a concert Saturday, May 5, at the outdoor Anderson Amphitheater. Both concerts are under the direction of R. Tad Greig, and are scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m.

CEO of the Population Institute Werner Fornos, an internationally-recognized authority on issues of world population growth, will speak at Westminster College Tuesday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m. in Hoyt Science Resources Center Phillips Lecture Hall.

Christina Contes, a senior elementary education and Spanish major at Westminster College, was recently awarded the Academic Year Ambassadorial Scholarship by the Pittsburgh Rotary.

"I will be studying Spanish at la Universidad de Sevilla," said Contes.  "This scholarship provides an equivalent of $25,000 for round-trip transportation, tuition, fees, room and board, and some educational supplies.  I was nominated by my sponsor, William Hall of Lower Burrell, and was one of only eight winners."

Dr. Edward S. Cohen, Westminster College associate professor of political science, recently presented a paper at the "Globalization Comes Home: How Globalization is Transforming the West" conference held at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mortar Board and Kappa Delta Pi, Westminster College honor societies, are collaborating to collect new and gently used books during November.

The Westminster College Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society for juniors and seniors, recognized 10 "Most Outstanding First-Year Students" at a reception April 29.

Dr. Russell Martin, Westminster College associate professor of history, will share "Exiled from the Classroom" at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater in the McKelvey Campus Center.

Rhapsody, a composition for clarinet, violin, and piano written by Dr. Daniel Perttu, Westminster College assistant professor of music theory and composition, was performed Nov. 8 at the Bakersfield Symphony New Directions concert in Bakersfield, Calif.

Dr. Helen Boylan, Wesmtinster College associate professor of chemistry, and Mallory Strickland, a 2008 Westminster graduate, have been published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.