41 Westminster College Students Accepted to Present their Research at NCUR, 2012

The National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) organized by the Council on Undergraduate Research, is an annual event which will take place in Utah this year. In order to present at NCUR students must submit an abstract in the fall; only the best abstracts are selected for presentation by a reviewing panel and successful applicants are informed in the spring. ResPAC would like to congratulate all 41 students on their success

 Forbes.com Ranks Westminster College as Best College

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Westminster College Invited to Apply for a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Grant for Undergraduate Research.

Faculty and staff in Westminster's science departments and in the Development Office have been working relentlessly over the summer to complete a proposal for the funding of an undergraduate summer research program, from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. If they are successful in obtaining this highly competetive and prestigious award, they will receive up to $1.6m to fund a four-year summer research initiative with new, state-of-the-art equipment, stipends for faculty mentors and students, leadership workshops and more. The team writing the grant (Helen Boylan, Pete Smith and Katherine Robertson), led by Drs. Sandra Webster (Psychology) and Tom Tailor (Development Office), will find out if their proposal was approved in May.

The GRE General Test is Changing

The GRE General Test (a standardized aptitude test, required for entry into graduate school) is changing in summer 2011. The test has new questions and a new format.Students who take the test in August 2011 will recieve a 50% discount (the test usually costs $160) from ETS. It is highly recommended that students who are planning to take the test try the free test preparation software (PowerPrepII) from ETS before they register for the test, to familiarize themselves with the new questions and interface. Information about the GRE test and a downloadable PowerPrepII application are available from the ETS website; click here