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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – Westminster College will host an old-fashioned Independence Day celebration with a free concert and fireworks beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, at Brittain Lake on Westminster's campus.

Friday, June 7, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – Westminster College President Dr. Kathy Brittain Richardson has announced the appointment of two new members to the Westminster College Board of Trustees.

Thursday, June 6, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. – Westminster College conferred Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Science degrees to the following students during its 165^th annual spring commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11, on the Weisel Senior Terrace on the College’s campus.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.— Dr. Amy Camardese, professor of education and chair of Westminster’s School of Education, was presented with the College’s 2019 Distinguished Faculty Award in May.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.— Dr. Peter Smith, professor of chemistry and chair of the chemistry and biochemistry department at Westminster College, was recently presented with the Louis J. Sacco Award for Distinguished Service to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Professional Relations.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.—Westminster College is partnering with Jennings Environmental Education Center and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy on a STEM summer camp for high school students. The summer program, EYE Con: Experiencing Your Environment through CONservation, targets students entering 9th through 12th grades and focuses on hands-on science that has real-world implications for conservation.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.—Westminster College will mock politics this fall with the help of a former presidential candidate’s visit to campus.  Our Mother Fair podcast for May reveals the identity of that visitor.  Reporter Ian Ross also previews the 2019 Mock Convention with what’s happening behind the scenes.

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Sarah Harris, a senior biochemistry major, recently received two awards in local and national poster contests for research related to her recently completely honor’s thesis, “Investigation of binding patters and function of a uridylated histone mRNA degradation intermediate”

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Members of the Westminster community and the Borough of New Wilmington joined together to participate in the statewide “Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Great American Cleanup of PA" project this spring.

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Westminster College has announced a new major in environmental studies, an interdisciplinary combined major program that will prepare students for jobs outside of science-related careers such as environmental policy, environmental law and corporate sustainability.