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¾¨Ó㴫ý seniors Caroline Lawhead, Katelyn McGinty, and Brittany Reynolds received undergraduate research grants from ¾¨Ó㴫ý's Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Department of Mathematics and Computer Science hosted a Scratch computer programming workshop April 14 for Mercer Area Girl Scouts.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Celebrity Series will present A Chorus Line Tuesday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Two teams of ¾¨Ó㴫ý students participated in the 2013 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) East Central North America Programming Contest in the fall at Youngstown State University.
Grammy award-winning family entertainer Tom Chapin will entertain people of all ages at ¾¨Ó㴫ý Sunday, April 25, at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
Chapin has received numerous awards for his work with children, including a
Grammy Award, Entertainer of the Year and Best Male Musical Artist from American Academy of Children's Entertainment, and the Parents Prize from Parent's Magazine.
Chapin's songs deliver messages that children can understand and enjoy. For example in his ode to "la difference," "Two Kinds of Seagulls," he sings about "she gulls" and "he gulls."  "Good Garbage" is a hilarious homage to biodegradability, where Chapin explains why it's good that garbage smells bad.Â
The pied piper of children's music and his friends, Jon Cobert and Michael Mark, make their music about the joy of clutter, a princess with the hiccups, and the "accident" that turns into "acci-dump" and "acci-dope," with the message that it's okay to goof, especially when you can laugh at your mistakes.
"Music for the whole family," writes the Long Island Parenting News. "The toddlers will listen, the older kids will learn, and you will laugh. What more could you ask for?"
A limited number of tickets are available.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Celebrity Series Office sponsors this special show, which is not part of the regular season subscription. Call Connie McGinnis, assistant director of the Celebrity Series at (724) 946-7354 or e-mail mcginncl@westminster.edu for more information.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will host "Science Literacy Workshop: Preparing for Science Assessments" Thursday, Jan. 20, from 8:30 a.m.-noon in the Lakeview Room of the McKelvey Campus Center.
 This session will provide an introduction to the science curriculum framework, an overview of its components, and a guided tour through the framework. The workshop is led by Kevin Kelly, Gabriel Rose, and Nancy Bunt, a math-science collaborative team from Allegheny Intermediate Unit.
The Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning was developed to advance world-class teaching at ¾¨Ó㴫ý and enrich K-12 education through outreach programs for area educators.
 The event is sponsored by the Tri-State Area School Study Council Department of Administrative Policy Studies at the School of Education of the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at ¾¨Ó㴫ý.
Several other programs are scheduled in the coming months. They include: School Law Update lunch, March 17; and Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum dinner, April 7.
 All clinics offer Act 48 hours and are open all interested parties. For registration, contact Carol Fiumara at the Tri-State Area School Study Council at (412) 648-7185 or e-mail fuimara@pitt.edu. Applications can also be mailed to: 4H01 Posvar Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, or faxed to (412) 648-8185).Â
For more information, contact Dr. Chet Kent at (412) 648-7169 or e-mail ckent@pitt.edu.
Dr. Kang-Yup Na, assistant professor of religion at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, will present "In a Mirror, Dimly: The Historicality and Metaphoricality of Paul" at the Henderson Lecture Wednesday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Witherspoon Maple Room located in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"Biblical scholars have already written on Paul's use of metaphors in his letters," writes Na. "What has not yet been suggested, is to think of the Pauline corpus itself metaphorically, i.e., to view the entirety of Pauline texts as a creative vehicle of meaning&the hope is that our attempts to understand Paul would help us understand ourselves as we reflect on our own world."
The Henderson Lecture was founded by Dr. Joseph R. Henderson and his wife, Elizabeth, to encourage and recognize original and continuing research and scholarship among ¾¨Ó㴫ý faculty, and to afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning with the academic community. Dr. Henderson is a professor emeritus of education at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, and served as chair of the Department of Education and director of the Graduate Program. Each year ¾¨Ó㴫ý faculty members may nominate themselves or others to receive the lectureship, which includes a stipend to support a specific research project. A special faculty committee chooses from the nominees.
Na, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1998, earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, his master's from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Emory University.
Contact Na at (724) 946-7155 or e-mail at nak@westminster.edu for more information.
Dr. Bryan Rennie, associate professor of religion and Vira L. Heinz Chair in Religion, has been invited by the organizers to present his research at two major conferences in Germany and Chicago
Rennie will present his paper, "The Influence of Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology on Mircea Eliade's Understanding of Religion," at the conference of "Paradigms and Politics: Mircea Eliade and Joachim Wach," which will be held at the Martin Marty Center at The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. Rennie was invited to this conference by Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade professor of religion at the University of Chicago.
"Shaul Shaked and Amnon Netzer of the Ben Zwi Institute for the Study of Judaism in the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ludwig Paul, who represents the Asian African Institute of the University of Hamburg, have invited me to present to the 6th International Conference on Irano-Judaica, which will be held at the Asian-Africa Institute of Hamburg University in Germany," Rennie said. "I will present 'Iranian Eschatology and Middle Eastern Religion: How Should We Explain the Relative Absence of the Zoroastrian Tradition from Mainstream Biblical and Religious Studies?'"
Rennie has also been notified that his work, "Mircea Eliade: Apologia pro Opere suo," has been published as a chapter in Thinking About Religion: A Reader published by Blackwell.
"This volume, has been edited by Ivan Strenski of the University of California, Riverside," Rennie said. "What is notable about this publication is that all of the contributors to the volume are major figures in the study and the history of religion, and commentaries upon them by very significant scholars in the field. It's a great honor to be included among such notable figures."
"I am very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be part of these significant events," Rennie said. "I believe that they reflect positively on the standard of academic achievement of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý faculty and should encourage both our faculty and our student body to ever greater academic honors."
Rennie, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1994, earned his undergraduate degree, master's and Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Contact Rennie at (724) 946-7151 or e-mail brennie@westminster.edu for more information.
R. Tad Greig, director of bands and instructor of music at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, will present "An Informance" during Faculty Forum Wednesday, Oct. 31, at 11:45 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
Dr. G. Samuel Lightner IV, professor and chair of physics at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, presented a paper at the summer national meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers at the University of Guelph in Ontario.
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