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Westminster College's Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will host a Foundation Theatre Camp June 28-July 2 in Beeghly Theater.
Phi Alpha Theta, Westminster College's history honor society, will host alumnus Dr. John Donoghue, assistant professor of history at Loyola University, Thursday, March 24, at 5:30 p.m. in Thompson Clark Hall 210. The program is free and open to the public.
Westminster College's Jake Erhardt International Film Series will conclude the semester with the 1992 Italian film Ciao, Professore Tuesday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of McKelvey Campus Center.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. James Rhoads, Westminster College professor of political science, co-authored an article in Operant Subjectivity: The International Journal of Q Methodology.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Ann Marie Bayma, a Westminster College sophomore international business and accounting major, and Violet Shriver, a sophomore accounting major, were named winners of the 2013 David W. Edward Entrepreneurship Scholarship competition.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College Department of Economics and Business students participated in the Armstrong College Challenge April 3 in Butler.
More than 350 students are expected to earn diplomas Saturday, May 22, during the 150th annual Westminster College commencement ceremonies. The 2003-2004 academic year will conclude with a baccalaureate service at 10:30 a.m. in Orr Auditorium and commencement at 2:30 p.m. on the Senior Terrace of Old Main.
Speaking at Baccalaureate is the Rev. Dr. Carolyn J. Jones, a 1958 Westminster graduate and current Board of Trustees member. She has served on the Board's executive, church relations, educational policy and institutional advancement committees.
Jones taught high-school English at the American College for Girls in Cairo, Egypt, and at Bethel Park High School. She earned her masters of education degree from Syracuse University in 1963, where she served as an administrator. In 1977, she entered the ministry after earning a master and a doctorate from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Jones has served as an assistant and associate pastor at the Glenshaw Presbyterian Church, as an interim minister at a number of Pittsburgh area Presbyterian churches, as Executive Presbyter of the Washington Presbytery, and as interim associate synod executive.
Commencement will feature two speakers who will share "words of wisdom" with the graduates after receiving their honorary Doctor of Public Service (D.R.S.) degrees.
Andrew J. McKelvey, a 1957 Westminster graduate and chairman and CEO of Monster Worldwide, will speak first. McKelvey is the chief visionary and business strategist behind the parent company of Monster, the leading global online careers property. With annual revenues totaling more than $1 billion, Monster Worldwide also owns the largest Yellow Pages and recruitment advertising agency network, and is a provider of direct marketing services.
In addition to his role as chairman and CEO, McKelvey is an active philanthropist, who among his many charitable efforts, founded the McKelvey Foundation to provide college scholarships to the disadvantaged, yet highly motivated and entrepreneurial high school students in rural areas of Pennsylvania, New York, and West Virginia. He played a central role in helping to raise more than $100 million for Families of Freedom, a charity seeking to fund the college educations of children whose parents were victims of the September 11, 2001.
Dorothy J. Pollock, who earned her bachelor's degree at Westminster College in 1946, and a master's from the University of Cincinnati, will also receive an honorary degree. She was a senior research scientist at Mellon Institute of Industrial Research on the Candy Technology Fellowship for Fanny Farmer Company from 1947-1949, and on the United States Government Synthetic Rubber Fellowship from 1949-1956. In 1956, she joined the Research and Development Division of Koppers Co., a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Co., until her retirement in 1981. Following her retirement, she worked as a consultant in polymer research for Standard Oil of Ohio.
Pollock, a native of McKeesport who now resides in New Wilmington, has remained actively involved at Westminster College serving on the Alumni Council and the Westminster Fund Board and volunteering for many College departments, committees, and events. Pollock was elected a Board of Trustee member in 1982 and again in 1986. She received the Alumni Achievement award in 1977.
John L. Libert, a senior speech communications major from McDonald, was elected to confer senior class remarks.
In case of rain, ceremonies will be held at the Memorial Field House. For more information, contact the Academic Dean's Office at (724) 946-7122.
The Westminster College Dance Theatre will perform Thursday-Friday, March 10-11, at 8 p.m. and Saturday, March 12, at 2 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
"This year's theme is Every Dance Tells a Story,'" said Regina Sharbaugh, assistant director of admissions and Dance Theatre advisor. "The show, which includes co-masters of ceremonies, has five senior solos, one duet, a baton routine, and a diverse genre of dances including tap, hip hop, lyrical, jazz, and Irish dancing."
Tickets for the show are available at the door. For more information, contact Sharbaugh at (724) 946-7104 or e-mail sharbarm@westminster.edu.
"Personal Encyclopedias and the 'Baptism of Russia:' Experiments in Interactive Learning Software" will explore new possibilities in software Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 4 p.m. in the Hoyt Science Resources Center room 152.
"If you were to visit the Bose store in Grove City you might hear about some very cool software that actually listens to your music and 'learns' your preferences so that, over time, it can automatically select tracks based on what you like," said Tim Smith, a software/psychology expert who is pursuing a degree through Westminster College's Lifelong Learning Program. "Similarly, if you visit Amazon.com and buy a few books, you would notice that Amazon's software agent would automatically begin to recommend titles which match and even extend your topics of interest.
"Whether you find this trend scary or cool, it might lead you to think about ways to apply intelligent knowledge systems to the things you decided are useful," Smith said. "What if we could build software which applied similar techniques to things you wanted to learn or remember, in a way you wanted to learn them?"
Smith's presentation will explore questions like: What if this software could automatically find and explore knowledge that is important to you from the class notes that are entered or ideas in a journal? What if the software could quiz on the class notes entered or comments from a book or article read online? What if the software could help you find more information on the topics the user was interested in? What if it could integrate and cross reference new knowledge with the old and help create connections?
Since 1996 Smith has worked at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh in the fields of psychology, cognitive psychology, neuroscience and computer science. In industry he was a project manager for software development at Psychology Software Tools Inc., a Pittsburgh based research company.
Smith recently moved to New Wilmington with his wife Kathy Robertson, an assistant professor of biology at Westminster College. He continues to be the research development manager for Psychology Software Tools, while attending classes at Westminster College.
Contact Smith at (412) 215-2690 or e-mail smithtw@westminster.edu for more information.
Caillou, considered a best friend by millions of preschoolers nationwide, is appearing at the Westminster College Celebrity Series Sunday, Feb. 8 at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
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