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Dr. Russell Martin, Westminster College professor of history, is the author of A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia that was published recently by Northern Illinois University Press.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Theatre Westminster presented The Book of Days in February. The cast and crew were made up of nearly 30 students.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College will celebrate Black History Month with a series of programs that are free to the public.
-- Dr. John Bonomo, assistant professor of computer science, and Dr. Carolyn Cuff, professor of mathematics at Westminster College, will bring science and mathematics into everyday items at Faculty Forum Wednesday, April 21, at 11:30 a.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center Theater.
"Mathematics has obvious applications in engineering and scientific problems, but it is just as useful in analyzing ordinary, everyday items," Bonomo said. "In this talk, we take a mathematical look at common children's toys, focusing on those consisting of movable disks on pegs. After reviewing some well-known results, we conclude with some novel analysis we have done on the stacking ring toy."
Bonomo, who has been with Westminster College since 1998, earned his undergraduate degree and master's from Catholic University in Washington and a master's and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
Cuff has been with Westminster College since1989, and is chair of the Environmental Science Committee. She earned her undergraduate degree from Westminster College, and her master's and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
Faculty forum, established in 1990, 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.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Bonomo at (724) 946-7287 or e-mail bonomopj@westminster.edu or Cuff at (724) 946-7291 or e-mail ccuff@westminster.edu.
Dr. Terry Collins, director of the Institute for Green Oxidation Chemistry, will speak at Westminster College Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.
"Dr. Collins is a leader in the field of Green Chemistry," said Dr. Peter Smith, assistant professor of chemistry at Westminster College. "Green Chemistry develops chemical products and processes that minimize, and potentially eliminate, the use of generations of hazardous substances. Dr. Collins' work focuses on new technologies for more environmentally friendly oxidations. Traditionally, bleaching processes use large amounts of chlorine, which can be hazardous for humans and the environment."
"This new process uses oxygen and iron contained in a nontoxic compound," Smith said. "His processes are also very effective in disinfecting water supplies, destroying toxic pollutants and pesticides, and removing sulfur from fuel sources. Dr. Collins is investigating the use of his processes in homeland defense against harmful chemicals and microbes."
Collins is the Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University, and an honorary professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He earned his undergraduate degree, master's and Ph.D. from the University of Auckland. He was been awarded a number of research awards, including the 1998 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.
The event which is sponsored by the Westminster Chemistry Club and the Penn Ohio Border Section of the American Chemical Society, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Smith at (724) 946-7299 or e-mail smithpm@westminster.edu.
Soprano Dr. Anne Hagan Bentz, assistant professor of music at Westminster College, tenor Dr. David Smith, associate professor of music at Geneva College, and pianist Marie Libal-Smith, will give a recital featuring songs of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel Monday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
Bentz, who has been with Westminster College since 2001, earned her undergraduate degrees from the University of Delaware and the Hoschule fur Misik und Theater in West Germany, and her D.M.A. from the University of Maryland. She spent more than 14 years engaged as a soloist at The Badisches Staatstheater, The Stadtisches Landestheater Flensburg, and the Eduard von Winterstein Theater. Her many roles, which span the opera and operetta repertoire, include Gilda Rosina, Pamina, Adina Susanna from the "Marriage of Figaro, and Susanna from "The Secret of Susanna."
Smith, a dedicated recitalist, includes in his repertoire art songs of Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Strauss, Wolf, and Spohr. He produced a recital which presented the complete Lieder of Clara Schumann during the centenary commemoration of her death. He has been enthusiastically reviewed as Don Ottavio from "Don Giovanni," Don Ramiro in "Cenerentola," Don Curzio in "Marriage of Figaro," Remendado in "Carmen,"," and Pedrillo in "Abduction from the Seraglio."
Libal-Smith earned her undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace and master's degree from Indiana University. She has performed extensively as vocal accompanist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Canada. Her recital collaborators include flutists Carol Wincenc, Amy Porter, and Sean Gabriel, principal flutist of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and Cleveland Opera; and violinists Marissa Regni, principal second violinist of the National Symphony Orchestra and Christopher Wu, first violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Libel-Smith has recorded a CD with violinist Sharon Stanis of the Lafayette String Quartet, which includes music of Suk, Prokoviev, and Szymanowski. In addition to coaching and rehearsing for the opera programs at Westminster College, she is staff accompanist at Carnegie Mellon University
The event is free and open to the public. Contact Bentz at (724) 946-6045 or e-mail bentzah@westminster.edu for more information.
The Westminster College Wind Ensemble will perform a concert Friday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
Kourtney Kissel, a junior sociology/criminal justice major at Westminster College, interned at SecuraComm Consulting, Inc., a national engineering consulting firm providing independent appraisals and development of integrated protection programs.
The Westminster College Department of Graduate Education and the Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers a series of education workshops for area principals and superintendents.
Dr. Russell E. Martin, associate professor of history at Westminster College, delivered two lectures at the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary Feb. 21&one in English and one in Russian.
"The first lecture was on the cultural and political ties between Byzantium and Musocovy, and was delivered in English," said Martin. "The second lecture, delivered in Russian, was on monastic commemoration of the dead, and the belief in 17th-century Russia, as in modern Russia, that prayer for the dead benefits the living and the dead."
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