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¾¨Ó㴫ý's Celebrity Series will close its 2009-2010 season with ABBAMania & Stayin' Alive Saturday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
Dr. Russell Martin, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of history, will speak at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.
¾¨Ó㴫ý recently added nine new full-time faculty members.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Symphony Orchestra will present its spring concert Tuesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Fourteen ¾¨Ó㴫ý students were given the opportunity to cover the Cleveland Cavaliers versus Milwaukee Bucks NBA game as members of the media Dec. 14 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The ¾¨Ó㴫ý student chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS) was recently awarded an Inter-Chapter Relations Grant for the 2013-2014 academic year.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. -- The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Bleasby Colloquium continues with alumna author Diana Joseph Wednesday, March 31, at 7 p.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center Berlin Student Lounge.
Joseph will read selections from her book, "Happy or Otherwise," which is a collection of short fictional stories published by the Carnegie Mellon University Press.Â
She is a native of New Castle, and received her undergraduate degree from ¾¨Ó㴫ý in 1992. Currently, Joseph teaches creative writing at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo.
"Diana Joseph's debut collection is a mix of captivating voices. These are characters readers will love, hate, admire, and despise," writes Gordon Weaver, author of "Long Odds."
This colloquium is the second in a series of five scheduled for the George Bleasby Colloquia, a series of literary events in honor of Dr. Bleasby, who chaired the Department of English at ¾¨Ó㴫ý from 1954-75.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. David Swerdlow, professor of English at ¾¨Ó㴫ý and coordinator of the event, at (724) 946-7345 or e-mail dswerdlw@westmisnter.edu.
Dr. John Bonomo, associate professor of computer science, and Dr. Carolyn Cuff, professor of mathematics, had their collaborative research, "How Do You Stack Up?," published in the November issue of the College and Mathematics Journal.
 "Basically the paper is a mathematical investigation of a simple children's toy known as a stacking ring," Bonomo said. "My three kids all played with this toy, and their random placement of rings on the tower was the genesis of the article. Things like this always happen when you mix mathematicians and toys."
 "Needless to say, unless one's child is a budding genius, the average toddler will place the rings on randomly, leaving several to stick out over the top of the rod, depending on the ordering of the rings and the dexterity of the child. This led to an initial question which spurred our interest into the mathematical properties of the stacking ring tower: what is the average number of rings that stick over the rod given all possible orderings of ring placements," wrote the professors.
 "One nice surprise is that one of our illustrations made the cover of the journal, which made both Carolyn and I very happy," Bonomo said.
 Bonomo, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1998, earned his undergraduate and master's degrees from Catholic University, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University. He has served as judge and problem contributor for the International Collegiate Programming Contest several times.
 Cuff, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since1989, earned her undergraduate degree from ¾¨Ó㴫ý, and her master's and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
 For more information, contact Bonomo at (724) 946-7287 or e-mail bonomojp@westminster.edu.
¾¨Ó㴫ý and Dominion Peoples have reached a settlement in regards to a billing disagreement. Details of the agreement will remain confidential as agreed to by both parties.
Dr. Jamie McMinn, assistant professor of psychology at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, recently co-authored "The Many Faces of Childhood: Costume as Ritualized Behavior," a chapter on childhood behavior which appears in Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives.
"Alan Pickell and I examined costuming rituals and the psychological functions they serve for children," McMinn said. "We then examined how these rituals are described in such popular children's series as the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and the Oz books. Our goal was to offer a way to understand the importance of children's costuming through the neoFredian theory of Carl Jung, as well as social psychological theories that explain why people, including children, misbehave when their identity is concealed by costumes."
Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives is edited by Kathy Merlock and published by Popular Press.
McMinn, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 2003, earned his under graduate degree from Emory & Henry College, and master's and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Contact McMinn at (724) 946-7121 or e-mail mcminnjg@westminster.edu for more information.
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