News Archive

Monday, June 7, 2021

The Center for the Environment (CFE) at Westminster College kicks off its summer educational programming series with “Forest Therapy: Science Fact or Fiction?” at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 12, at the college’s outdoor Field Station located at 937 Fayette-New Wilmington Road in New Wilmington.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Three Westminster College students placed among the top 10 finishers of the Zingale Big Idea Competition.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Westminster College’s McGill Library will host a children’s summer storytime series each Tuesday this summer.

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Jim Curtis '83, Community Services Manager for the City of Indio in Indio, Ca., shares his passion for planning high-end events, including his involvement with the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival each year. He touches on how the tragic accident that took the life of his best friend from Westminster College led him to following his passions without "could've, would've" in his vocabulary.

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

The Westminster College Center for the Environment will offer six virtual college prep workshops this summer, giving high schoolers an opportunity to learn about the environment and build their college readiness skills.

Friday, May 28, 2021

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Westminster College senior thrower Dalton Anderson (Butler, PA / Moniteau) earned All-American honors at the 2021 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Friday.
 
Anderson, earning the first All-American citation of his career (National Qualifier in 2019), finished third in the javelin with a personal-best toss of 62.22 meters (204'2") on his final throw, the best finish at Nationals in the javelin in program history. Anderson joins Ryan Bell '12 as the only Titan throwers to earn All-American status at Nationals and ties for the second-best Titan finisher at National's overall.
 
Anderson also joins sophomore pole vaulter Emma Rudolph (Santa Clarita, CA / Golden Valley) as the second Titan to earn All-American honors this week. Senior thrower Megan Parker (Mercer, PA / Mercer Area) will round out the Titan representatives at National's tomorrow in the shot put at 10:30 a.m.
 
The NCAA Championships are being held Thursday, May 27 through Saturday, May 29 at the Irwin Belk Track Complex in Greensboro, N.C.

Thursday, May 27, 2021

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Westminster College sophomore pole vaulter Emma Rudolph (Santa Clarita, CA / Golden Valley) earned an All-America citation at the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday.
 
Rudolph, earning the first All-American honor of her career, tied in 8th place with a vault of 12'1.5" (3.70m).
 
The Titans now have 15 All-American women's pole vault honorees in school history.
 
Also representing Westminster at the 2021 Nationals are senior Dalton Anderson (Butler, PA/Moniteau) and senior Megan Parker (Mercer, PA/Mercer Area). Anderson qualified in the javelin which will take place on Friday, May 28 starting at 4:45 p.m., while Parker qualified in shot put which will start on Saturday, May 29 at 10:30 a.m.
 
The NCAA Championships are being held Thursday, May 27 through Saturday, May 29 at the Irwin Belk Track Complex in Greensboro, N.C.

Friday, May 21, 2021

Westminster College’s Center for the Environment will be offering a middle school STEM day camp this summer for students entering seventh through ninth grades.

Saturday, May 15, 2021

WHEELING, W.Va. - The Westminster men's golf team finished in ninth place out of 37 teams at the four-day NCAA Division III Championship Tournament on Friday.
 
Westminster fired a team score of 288 (+4) in the final round today on the par-71, 6,857-yard Speidel Jones Course at Oglebay Resort and were one shot of tying the school-record it set just two days prior. The Titans finished the week with a four-day score of 1,196 strokes (+64). Westminster's ninth-place finish is the best finish ever by a PAC team at Division III's premier event and the Titans were the only unranked team (according to Golfstat.com) in the field to make the cut.
 
Westminster was led in the final round by sophomore Calen Cummins (Allison Park, PA / Hampton) who fired a career-low, two-under par round of 69, tying the lowest round of the day in the field. Cummins' record day was highlighted by three birdies and just one bogey, including a birdie on the par-3 fourth hole. Cummins dominated the par 3's all week, finishing three under total on them, the best mark in the entire field by four shots. Overall, Cummins finished in 26th place in the 191-player field at 15-over par over four days, the best individual finisher at the NCAA Tournament in program history.
 
Following Cummins on day four were graduate transfer Brendan Shaughnessy (Canonsburg, PA / Bishop Canevin), senior Jonny Stuckert (Pittsburgh, PA / North Hills) and sophomore Sam Napper (Mt Pleasant, PA / Mt Pleasant) who each carded a 73 (+2). Both Shaughnessy and Stuckert recorded one birdie on the day, as Shaughnessy birdied the par-5 14th hole while Stuckert recorded a red number on the par-4 second. Shaughnessy finished at +18 for the week, tying for 34th place, while Stuckert's four-day total of +19 tied for 40th place. Napper had his best day of the week, as his career-low round was highlighted by a team-high four birdies, including three on his first nine (Westminster started on hole 10). Napper finished in 89th place with a four-day score of +31. Junior Michael Bell (Canonsburg, PA / Peters Township) rounded out the day for Westminster, coming into the clubhouse with a 77 (+6). Bell was the second-best Titan finisher on the week, tying for 29th place with a four-day mark of +16.
 
Westminster, led by eighth-year Head Coach Matt Torrence, won every tournament in the regular season, including the program's first PAC Title in 16 years. Westminster appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the second time in school history, making the cut and finishing inside the top-10 at National's for the first time ever.

Saturday, May 8, 2021

Westminster College celebrated its 167th annual commencement on Saturday, May 8, conferring degrees on nearly 300 students at two socially-distanced outdoor ceremonies on Weisel Senior Terrace on the College’s campus.