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Twenty-eight Westminster College students met the requirements for graduation in December.
The Westminster College chapter of Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity will host a Haunted Bio Trail Saturday, Oct. 29, from 8 p.m.-midnight. The Halloween-themed event is open to the public.
Dr. Edward Cohen, Westminster College associate professor of political science, presented a paper and chaired a panel at the meeting of the International Studies Association April 1-4 in San Diego.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College's Department of Economics and Business hosted the inaugural Winter Analyst Program Jan. 26.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College senior biology major Michael Brooks Jr. and associate professors Dr. Marosh Furimsky and Dr. John Robertson presented their research at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference in Austin, Texas, in January.
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. Bailey is "Unlocking the Da Vinci Code" Wednesday, April 21, from 7-9 p.m. at the Wallace Memorial Chapel.
The Da Vinci Code, a recently published murder mystery that has sold more than 4, 000,000 copies, is a fictitious story placed in a supposed back drop of historical truth about the origins of the Bible and the Christian faith.
Bailey spent 40 years teaching New Testament in the Middle East in various seminaries and institutes. He has written seven books and more than 150 articles.
"To sort out historical reality from murder mystery mythology requires a careful analysis of early Christian history of the first three centuries along with an informed study of Gnosticism, the Apocryphal Gospels, the selection of the canon, the age of Constantine, and many other things," Bailey said. "In this lecture, the historical realities of the origins of the Christian movement will be presented, out of which the assumptions of this murder mystery can be appropriately understood."
Bailey, who is a son of missionary parents stationed in Egypt, has spent most of his life in the Middle East. He served 20 years as professor of the New Testament studies in the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, and founded the Institute for Middle Eastern New Testament Studies at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies in Jerusalem.
The event, which is sponsored by the Westminster College Church Relations Department and the Shenango Presbytery, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Linda Wilson at (724) 946-7362 or e-mail lwilson@westminster.edu.
Westminster College recently received a $10,000 grant toward the $3 million renovation of Old Main from the Samuel P. Black Family Fund of the Erie Community Foundation.
"We are deeply grateful to the Samuel P. Black Family Fund of the Erie Community Foundation for its support of the Project for Old Main," said Westminster College President R. Thomas Williamson. "Old Main is our signature academic and administrative facility, and has had only minor renovations since it was built in 1929. Project infrastructure improvements include upgrading the building's electrical and heating systems and installing a sprinkler system, elevator, additional restrooms, and air conditioning. We are also enhancing classrooms and academic program areas, refurbishing the Chapel, and restoring the bell tower masonry. Together, these improvements will result in an up-to-date, comfortable, and fully accessible building that will meet the present and future needs of our student - many of whom are from Erie and Northwest Pennsylvania - while retaining its distinctive historic character."
Old Main renovation work began last summer, and the entire project will be completed by early September.
The Project for Old Main is the sixth of seven construction and renovation projects included in Westminster College's $30 million Shared Vision, Uncommon Results fundraising initiative. The five projects completed since 1998 total nearly $23 million and include the Western Pennsylvania Cultural Arts Center ($1.7 million), Marjorie A. Walker Recreation Center ($285,000), Andrew J. McKelvey Campus Center ($14.4 million), Thompson-Clark Hall ($3 million), and the Memorial Field House ($3.4 million).
Dr. Edward Cohen, associate professor of political science at Westminster College, will discuss his research on globalization at Faculty Forum Wednesday, Nov. 2, at ll:45 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"I will discuss the research, 'Travels with Watto: Searching for the Sources of Globalization,' I have conducted with the support of the Watto award I received last year," Cohen said. "Much of this research involved traveling to, and observing, meetings in which representatives of government and private industry worked on setting the roles for global commerce. The forum will highlight some of the lessons I have learned regarding globalization and the best ways to research this phenomenon."
Cohen's presentation is part of the weekly Faculty Forum. Established in 1990, Faculty Forum serves as a venue for the exchange of ideas and information among Westminster College faculty. Speakers present their research, teaching ideas, lectures, performances, special programs, and uses of technology to keep faculty informed about the work of colleagues from many disciplines.
Cohen, who has been with Westminster College since 1996, earned his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College and his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Contact Cohen at (724) 946-7304 or e-mail cohenes@westminster.edu for more information.
Brent Rodgers, a junior elementary education major with a minor in theatre at Westminster College, recently directed "The Music Man" at Riverside High School in Ellwood City.
Desiree Henry, a senior broadcast communications major at Westminster College, recently won "Overall Commercial Model" at the 34th annual Millie Lewis American Modeling and Talent Convention in Florida.
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