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Six ¾¨Ó㴫ý senior chemistry/biochemistry majors will present their research at Pittcon 2009 March 8-13 in Chicago.
Matthew Monahan and Katelynn Gray were crowned ¾¨Ó㴫ý Homecoming king and queen during the halftime festivities Oct. 10.
Eight ¾¨Ó㴫ý senior language majors recently presented their capstone projects.
Dr. Peter Smith, ¾¨Ó㴫ý associate professor of chemistry, will speak on "The Coming Rare Earth Crisis" at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, March 9, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.
¾¨Ó㴫ý senior religion and philosophy major John Allison presented at a meeting of the West Virginia Philosophical Society Oct. 22 at Wheeling Jesuit University.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - When Eight ¾¨Ó㴫ý students signed up for the "Broadcast Journalism II" course they were challenged to grow as broadcast journalists with intense hands-on projects and opportunities to network with area journalism professionals.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Department of Psychology will host Dr. Mary Torregrossa for a presentation on drug addiction Thursday, April 4, at 12:40 p.m. in the Phillips Lecture Hall in the Hoyt Science Resources Center. The event is free to the public.
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Torregrossa is an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Torregrossa's presentation, "Manipulating Memories to Prevent Relapse to Drug Addiction," will review research focused on identifying ways of weakening the strength of drug-associated cue memories to prevent relapse. She will discuss evidence for abnormal cue associated learning in drug addiction, describe possible methods for reducing the motivational power of drug-associated cues manipulations of extinction and/or reconsolidation, and discuss the clinical effectiveness of these treatments.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. John Bonomo, ¾¨Ó㴫ý associate professor of computer science, had his article, "Not All Numbers Can Be Created Equally," published in the January 2014 edition of The College Mathematics Journal.
Seven senior art majors, Craig Carlin, Richard DiGia, Tasha Dodd, Erin Gray, John Joseph, Kimberly Klappert and Austin Ray, are displaying art projects through May 22, at the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Art Gallery, which is open Monday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, noon-6 p.m.
"My show stands as a testimony of moments in my life when I take a step back, put aside all that can easily overwhelm life, and stand in awe of creation," Klappert said. "I have found the most stunning landscapes on the seacoast of New England. My works on display are inspired by God's landscapes."
"I scanned hand drawn and painted original pictures into the computer and recreated new art in Photoshop and Illustrator from the hand drawn art," DiGia said. "Then each new piece was printed on various substrates to show how art can be produced in many different forms and sizes."
"My work consists of paintings influenced by my ceramic forms," Joseph said. "Both are exhibited together to show the relationship between the two works.
"For my senior capstone project, I have produced numerous commercial design pieces for promoting 'Pittsburgh 250,' a fictional city-wide celebration of the city's 250th anniversary," Carlin said. "These pieces include full color signs to be displayed on city lampposts, a newspaper advertisement, a magazine advertisement, a brochure giving information on the weekend's events and a timeline of Pittsburgh's history, a billboard, bumper stickers, magnets, and stickers."
"The underlying theme for my show is 'emotion,' Ray said. "I chose this theme because emotions are always something within us. When creating art, I find it enjoyable to provide the viewer with something that they have not seen or felt before."
The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Peggy Cox, professor of art at ¾¨Ó㴫ý at (724) 946-7266 or e-mail pcox@westminster.edu.
More than 110 Christmas trees were recycled at the ¾¨Ó㴫ý chipping party held at the College's Field Station.
 ¾¨Ó㴫ý faculty and students joined members of the New Wilmington Kiwanis Club to feed the trees into an industrial chipper provided by JEEMCO.Â
 "¾¨Ó㴫ý has been composting a variety of materials for the past 21 years," said Dr. Clarence Harms, director of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Field Station and professor of biology emeritus. "Seven years ago the pondweed harvested from Brittain Lake was added, and this past fall several truckloads of leaves from the Borough of New Wilmington made their way to the compost windrows at the Field Station. The wood chips will be mixed with the other wastes, and in six to 12 months, the compost will be ready for use at the Field station for planting and mulching trees."
For the past eight years, Harms has collected Christmas trees from local residents, and recycled them to the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Biology Field Station, affectionately called the Outdoor Laboratory on campus.Â
Harms, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1969, earned his undergraduate degree from Tabor College, his master's from the University of Kansas, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
 For more information about ¾¨Ó㴫ý's Field Station, contact Harms at (724) 946-8520 or e-mail harmsc@westminster.edu.
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