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Chemistry Professor Participated in Undergraduate Faculty Workshop
Dr. Helen Boylan, Westminster College associate professor of chemistry, was a panelist at the "Postdoc to Professor" workshop April 6-8 at Hope College in Holland, Mich.
College to Host French Film Festival
Westminster College's Departments of Modern Languages and English will host The Tournées Film Festival, a series of French films shown on consecutive Tuesdays, Jan. 31-Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center. The events are free and open to the public.
Westminster College Students to Use New Scanning Electron Microscope Through National Science Foundation Grant
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College science students will have access to a variable pressure scanning electron microscope (SEM) that will be housed at Youngstown State University (YSU) as a result of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.
Westminster College Chemistry Professor, Students, and Alumni Participated in Pittcon
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Eight Westminster students, Dr. Helen Boylan, Westminster College associate professor of chemistry, and Dr. Timothy Sherwood, associate professor of chemistry and department chair, participated in the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) in March in Philadelphia.
Gift Revenue Tops $5 Million for Fiscal Year
Westminster College's gift revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 was $5,010,327, bringing total giving to date toward its $50 million comprehensive campaign to nearly $46 million.
Westminster College to Dedicate Steinway Piano with Recital
Westminster College will dedicate a new Steinway piano with a recital by Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, chair of the music department, Sunday, Sept. 19, at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
The model "D" concert grand Steinway, the largest piano that Steinway makes, was given by the extended Mansell family in memory of Margaret Louise Young Mansell. Margaret and her husband, Thomas V. Mansell, are both 1929 Westminster College graduates and long-time New Wilmington residents.
The concert will begin with the Haydn's "Sonata in G Major," followed by Beethoven's "Sonata #26, Opus 81a." After a brief intermission, DeSalvo will continue with Rachmanioff's Etudes 2, 6 and 7 from "Etudes-Tableaus, Opus 33," followed by Chopin's "Barcorolle, Opus 60," and concluding with Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2."
The piano will be permanently housed in Orr Auditorium, where it will be used by piano majors giving formal senior recitals and by Department of Music faculty and guest artists performing in solo and duo recitals.
For more information, contact DeSalvo at (724) 946-7023 or e-mail desalvnj@westminster.edu or Dr. Grover Pitman, coordinator of the event and professor of music, at (724) 946-7274 or e-mail pitmanga@westminster.edu.
Westminster Men's and Women's Choirs to Perform April 17
The Westminster College Men's and Women's Choirs will perform a joint spring choral concert Sunday, April 17, at 3 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
The Men's Chorus is under the direction of Dr. Robin Lind with the accompany piano music by Katherine Menhorn, and the Women's Chorus is under the direction of Kris Harper, accompanied by pianist Katie Schultz.
"The men will sing a wide variety of music from the beautiful Afro-American spiritual "Were You There?" to the delightful English Sea shanty "What Shall We do with the Drunken Sailor," which was arranged by Robert Shaw," Lind said. "The men will also perform the "Sanctus" from St. Cecilia Mass by Charles Gounod, featuring William McCullough as the soloist, and the rousing "Punschlied," the Drinking Song, by Beethoven. They will also be performing the famous American hymn, "How Can I Keep from Singing" and a beautiful cappella arrangement of the "Lord's Prayer" by Keith Christopher."
The women's portion of the program include the traditional Irish arrangement of "Danny Boy," words from Shakespeare in "Three Birthday Madrigals," a traditional spiritual "I've Been Buked Children," and Kodaly's "'Mid the Oak Trees." The Women's Chamber Ensemble will perform "Arise My Love," with text from the "Song of Solomon" and Choplin's "Heaven's Song."
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Lind at (724) 946-7278 or e-mail lindra@westminster.edu or Harper at (724) 946-7276 or e-mail harperk@westminster.edu.
Westminster to Host School Counseling Program
The Westminster College Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is hosting "Best Administrative Practice Series: Optimizing the Use of the School Counseling Program for Academic Success" Tuesday, Feb. 28, from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.
"This program is for principals and superintendents who wish to learn how an effective school counseling program can positively impact the academic achievement of students," said Dr. William Evans, associate professor of education at Westminster College. "They will present program opportunities to make school counselors a more significant part of the successful mission of schools. School counselors may attend free if accompanied by an administrator from their district."
This seminar features Dr. Judy Bowers, who supervises the 170 K-12 school counselors that serve 61,000 students in the Tucson (Ariz.) Unified School District. She is also the immediate past president of the American School Counselor Association. Christopher Laudo, a 12-year school counselor veteran for the Pequea Valley School District in Lancaster and current president of the Pennsylvania School Counselor Association, will also speak.
The Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning was developed to advance world-class teaching at Westminster and enrich K-12 education through outreach programs for area educators
Contact Dr. Sam Farmerie, professor of education emeritus at Westminster College, at (724) 946-7053 or e-mail farmersa@westminster.edu for reservations; contact Evans at (724) 946-7184 or evanswj@westminster.edu for more information.
Westminster College Senior Spends Summer as MTV Intern
Westminster College senior Isaac Ludwig spent the summer as an intern at MTV in New York City.
Westminster College Sorority to Hold Dance-a-Thon for Charity
Kappa Delta sorority will hold a benefit dance-a-thon Friday, Oct. 27, from 6 p.m.-midnight at the Walton-Mayne Union Lounge.
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