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Westminster College business majors Joshua Bradley, Jennifer Louth, and Meghan Zaczkiewicz ranked 36th out of 2,927 teams worldwide by achieving a 43.9% return on equity in The Business Strategy Game for the week ending April 29.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Three Westminster College students participated in the 74th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Dec. 7.
Several Westminster College students will observe the Shenango Presbytery Christian College Awareness Month by leading Sunday morning worship services in local Presbyterian Churches.
On Sunday, March 28, Elizabeth Wallace, a senior Christian education major from Ellwood City, will preach the sermon at the West Middlesex Presbyterian Church, where the Rev. Jim Lenenberger serves as pastor. Kristen Forsberg, a senior elementary education major from New Wilmington, will lead the Children's Time; and Megan Hoagland, a sophomore elementary education major from Grove City, will read the scriptures. The theme for this service will come from the parable of the sower from Matthew 13:1-23.
On Sunday, April 4, several Westminster College students will lead the worship service at the Enon Presbyterian Church with the theme of dealing with fears. Participants include: Diane Ferry, a senior business administration major from Matawan, N.J.; Elizabeth Farry, a freshman broadcast communications major from Matawan, N.J.; Tiffany Gardiner, a senior German major from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; Megan Heilmann, a senior history major from Pittsburgh; Robert Miller, a junior religion major from Buffalo, N.Y.; Rachel Smith, a a senior psychology major from Middletown; Bill Stone, a senior religion major from New Wilmington; Ben Mentzer, a sophomore elementary education major from Edinburg; and Tara Neely, a senior Christian education major from Mercer.
For more information contact the Rev. James Mohr, chaplain of Westminster College, at (724) 946-7116 or e-mail mohrjr@westminster.edu.
WWNW Digital 88.9 FM, Westminster's College's radio station, will soon expand its coverage area.
"Until this summer, the station was very low power - 100 watts at a low location on campus," said Dr. David Barner, chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Theatre, and Art. "This summer the antenna was moved to the borough tower on the hill across from the President's house, and power was increased to 200 watts."
"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just granted the College's request for a 4000-watt station," Barner said. "This would greatly extend the coverage area. Broadcast students will have the ability to develop programming to serve a broader off-campus community, since the signal will now be strong enough to do so. The coverage area will cover all of Lawrence County and expand into Eastern Ohio and north to the Shenango Valley."
"Titan radio's goal will be to serve our community with quality programming, including Titan sports broadcasts, while giving Westminster students the opportunity to gain experience in the real world," Barner said. "The radio staff is excited that more alumni and local residents will benefit from our increased signal."
"What we need to do now is to secure the funding for this $30,000 project, which includes a new antenna and increased transmitting power," Barner said. "We hope to complete the project by the summer of 2006."
WWNW-88.9 FM is the only FM station with studios and transmitter in Lawrence County, and Barner has promised to broadcast continuous Christmas music mid-December until Jan. 1.
For more information, contact Barner at (724) 946-7239 or e-mail barnerdl@westminster.edu.
Dr. Sherri Pataki, visiting assistant professor of psychology at Westminster College, recently presented her research, "Communal Strength and Judgments of Altruism, Selfishness, and Guilt," at the American Psychological Association Convention in Washington, D.C.
"This research addresses the issue of human motivation and suggests that our actions are evaluated differently depending on our relationship to those we choose to help," Pataki said. "We found that people are perceived more positively when they help people outside of their immediate circle of friends and family than when they help their own families or close friends. We also found that failure to provide help outside the context of one's own close relationships has fewer negative repercussions, whereas failure to provide help within one's own family and among close friends is viewed more negatively."
Pataki, who has been with Westminster since 2004, earned her undergraduate degree from Allegheny College, and her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Contact Pataki at (724) 946-7361 or e-mail patakisp@westminster.edu for more information.
Westminster College Celebrity Series will host the United States Air Force Concert Band of Flight Saturday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
This 45-member group performs a diverse repertoire which includes original band compositions and orchestral transcriptions, popular Broadway and show tunes, marches, and patriotic selections. The band travels nearly 70,000 miles each year from their home at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to present almost 500 performances before both military and civilian audiences. Since its founding in 1942, the band has performed for presidents and vice presidents, visiting heads of state, cabinet officers, members of congress, U.S. and foreign military leaders, and millions of American and foreign citizens.
This concert is free and open to the public. Call the Westminster College Celebrity Series Office at (724) 946-7354 for ticket information.
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Lynn Foltz has been promoted to full-time Financial Aid Statistician at Westminster College. She has worked part-time at Westminster since 1991.
Westminster College plans a host of events to highlight Fall Family Day, Saturday, Sept. 16.
Dr. Alan Gittis, professor of psychology at Westminster College, will give the final Faculty Forum of the academic year Wednesday, April 30, at 11:30 a.m. in Patterson Hall room 131.
"The Science of the Art of Memento" deals with what is neurocognitively sound about the memory pathology that is central to the story.
Seven Westminster students met with representatives from the Lawrence County Community Action Partnership (LCCAP) in a round table discussion designed to find how the students could help redesign the LCCAP Website.
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