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Westminster College is among the nation's best in enhancing the educational achievement of its students, according to a national study released today.

Dr. Robert Travis, the originator of the weather station at the Field Station, working in a lab in 1992. Dr. Travis was also the first director of the Field Station.

Classic instruments used until 2001 to record air temperature, barometric pressure and humidity at the Field Station.

Scott Gebhart, now an alumnus, checking weather instruments on a snowy day in December, 1982. Weather data are always checked on Mondays.

A computer screen with real time data displayed as has been available since January, 2001.

As I write, on a Monday near the end of winter, we have snow on the ground and new flakes are falling. We sometimes attach value-words to weather - good weather, bad weather - as if our feelings or preferences should affect nature! Weather is to climate as one day on the job is to a career. Weather data, when accumulated, give us a picture of climate. We generally describe climate in terms of averages or means of temperature fluctuations, precipitation (including snow) and wind. We describe weather by the immediate, or daily, conditions that prevail.

Kristin Nelson, a Westminster College senior sociology-criminal justice and English major, presented her capstone research Oct. 27 at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society.

Westminster College will welcome the class of 2012 with the traditional Opening Convocation Friday, Aug. 22, at 1:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.

Language in Motion students

Fifteen Westminster College students in the Language in Motion program will make presentations at area schools this spring.

Dr. Jim WIthers

Westminster College will host Dr. Jim Withers as part of National Homeless Awareness Initiatives Thursday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m. in the Witherspoon Maple Room of the McKelvey Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. David Offner

Dr. David Offner, Wesmtinster College assistant professor of mathematics, will speak at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.

Westminster College students selected for inclusion in the 2010-2011 edition of Who's Who among Students in American Colleges and Universities were honored at an April 13 reception in the McKelvey Campus Center.

Festival Information

Coco avant Chanel (Coco before Chanel), the second film in Westminster College's Tournées Film Festival, will be shown Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.  The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Veronica Porterfield, visiting assistant professor of biology

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Veronica Porterfield, Westminster College visiting assistant professor of biology, co-authored an article for the August issue of Brain Behavior and Immunity.