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More than 300 students earned diplomas during the 156th annual ¾¨Ó㴫ý commencement ceremonies Saturday.
When rains came that melted snow the last week of February, the floods of our area were bound to happen. Rain at the Field Station Saturday and Sunday amounted to only 1.27 inches but its rate of accumulation, snow melt and heavier rains in the upper watershed contributed to the flood on Monday.Â
Dr. Patricia Clark, ¾¨Ó㴫ý associate professor of history, will present "Reading is a Recreation: South Africa's Cape Libraries Extension Association" at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, Nov. 16, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Sarah Kennedy, ¾¨Ó㴫ý assistant professor of chemistry, co-authored an article in the Water Conditioning and Purification Magazine.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa ? ¾¨Ó㴫ý's Department of Communication Studies, Theatre and Art will host an art exhibition featuring woven tapestries by artist Alison Gates from April 8 through May 3 at the Foster Art Gallery in Patterson Hall. The exhibition is free to the public.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Celebrity Series will present Broadway by Jeri at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26 in Orr Auditorium.
Felicie Reid, a junior environmental science major at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, recently presented her research, "Effects of Chlorine on Population Growth of Selanastrum Capicornutum," at the Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition Student Symposium.
"I tested local wastewater treatment plant effluents being released into the Little Neshannock Creek behind ¾¨Ó㴫ý's campus for free and total chlorine concentrations," Reid said. "From this data, I conducted toxicology tests of chlorine's effect on Selenastrum population growth. Selenastrum is a unicellular algae commonly found in freshwater and moist soils.
"I found that increasing chlorine concentration caused a decrease in Selenastrum growth. I also concluded that chlorine does indeed have a significantly detrimental effect on algal populations at the concentration being released into the Little Neshannock."
Dr. Ann Throckmorton, chair of the biology department, served as Reid's faculty advisor on the project.
Reid is a daughter of Keith and Catherine Reid, North Lima, Ohio, and a graduate of South Range High School.
For more information, contact Reid at (724) 946-7416 or e-mail reidfj@westminster.edu.
Rick Ufford-Chase, moderator of the 216th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), will speak at ¾¨Ó㴫ý Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
In addition to his duties as moderator, he is a mission worker for the Presbyterian Church, and in that capacity, he works in three related areas. He is the founder and International Director of BorderLinks, a bi-nation educational and community service organization with a staff of 25 from Mexico and the United States. He supports the work of the Evangelical Center for Pastoral Studies in Central America in Guatemala. He is a reservist with Christian Peacemaker Teams, doing nonviolent, direct intervention work in situations of extreme conflict. Ufford-Chase is also a co-founder of the "No More Deaths" movement inviting people of faith and conscience from all over the United States to come to the border and work on behalf of migrants who are at risk crossing the desert.
As Moderator, his primary concerns are to reach out to the next generation of leaders of the Presbyterian Church and to invite them into a lifetime of service. He is an enthusiastic supporter of anything that moves Presbyterians out of the pews and into the world.
The event, which is sponsored by the ¾¨Ó㴫ý Chapel Office, is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Rev. James Mohr, chaplain of ¾¨Ó㴫ý, at (724) 946-7116 or e-mail mohrjr@westminster.edu.
Dr. Kang-Yup Na, assistant professor of religion at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, was recently elected to serve on the Lilly Fellows Program National Network Board for a four-year term.
"I'll be attending two meetings each year, much of which will be devoted to programming and planning for the program's future," Na said. "In particular, we will be considering, deliberating and voting on proposals for grants."
For more information about this board at the visit, .
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 nak@westminster.edu for more information.
The ¾¨Ó㴫ý Department of Continuing Education has added sign language to the spring class offerings.
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