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¾¨Ó㴫ý's chapter of the Lambda Sigma Honor Society was recently awarded "Honor Chapter" status by the National Board.
 "This is the highest recognition that our organization gives," said Jane Price Harmon, national president.
 Lambda Sigma is an honor society with the purpose of fostering leadership, scholarship, fellowship, and the spirit of service among the men and women of the sophomore class, and to serve and promote the interest of the College in every way possible.
 "The critical component is that the chapter must be exceptional in their efforts to serve the College and outside community," said Dr. Neal Edman, dean of student affairs and co-adviser for the group. "The National Board does not always recognize the mere continuation of the same programs and projects, despite their efficacy and effort required. Chapters must show that they're reaching out in different ways in their service efforts and creativity. The members of Lambda Sigma worked tirelessly and selflessly this past year to achieve this recognition."
 "Dr. [Kang-Yup] Na [assistant professor of religion] and I know that the men and women of this chapter were most deserving of this status," said Edman. "We thoroughly enjoy serving as their advisers. They are a terrific group of students."
 For more information, contact Edman at (724) 946-7113 or e-mail nedman@westminster.edu or Na at (724) 946-7155 or e-mail nak@westminster.edu.
Dr. Young-gun Ko, clinical psychologist and author, will speak at ¾¨Ó㴫ý on "Emotion of Genius, Genius of Emotion" Tuesday, April 19, at 5 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall located in the Hoyt Science Resources Center.
"I'll compare two world-famous physicists, Robert Oppenheimer and Niels Bohr, in view of emotional intelligence, the life-span development, and ego defense mechanisms," Ko said.
"Ko was my graduate assistant while I was a Fulbright Lecturer at Korean University in 2000-2001," said Dr. Sandra Webster, professor of psychology and faculty development officer at ¾¨Ó㴫ý. "Since then, he and his wife, Jin-Young Kim, have completed their Ph.D.s in Peter Salovey's lab, who is now the dean of Yale's Graduate School and former editor of the journal, Emotion.' Ko has continued to be my research collaborator on the cross-cultural project on gender and generational effects of emotional reactions to stress, which he and his wife work on a book called The Genius of Emotion."
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Webster at (724) 946-7359 or e-mail websters@westminster.edu.
Two ¾¨Ó㴫ý professors, Dr. Helen Boylan, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and public relations, had a joint article, "Detective Fiction and Forensics in Collaboration," published in the 2005 Winter issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly.
"This paper is about the interdisciplinary collaboration at ¾¨Ó㴫ý through cluster courses, which typifies the best of what learning communities offer to both faculty and students," Boylan said. "The focus is on the link between detective fiction, a literature course, and forensics, a lab science course, and how combining the two courses into a cluster course allow students to evaluate the same general topic from two disciplinary perspectives."
All ¾¨Ó㴫ý students are required to take at least one cluster course, usually during their sophomore or junior years. A cluster consists of two linked courses taught by at least two faculty from different disciplines to the same group of students. Cluster courses offer opportunities for students to integrate knowledge and to develop into a community of learners.
Boylan, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 2001, earned her undergraduate degree from ¾¨Ó㴫ý and her Ph.D. from Duquesne University. She can be contacted at (724) 946-6293 or e-mail boylanhm@westminster.edu for more information.
Mitchell, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1992, earned her undergraduate degree and master's from Youngstown State University and her Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.
¾¨Ó㴫ý recently celebrated "Geek Week," which was a week-long competition between the various science majors.
Joseph Bruchac, one of the nation's top Native American authors, will speak at ¾¨Ó㴫ý, Thursday, March 29, at 6:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
¾¨Ó㴫ý and News Channel 33, the Youngstown, Ohio-based ABC affiliate, are teaming up to honor outstanding area educators.
Dr. James Perkins, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of English, co-authored David Madden: A Writer for All Genres.
"My book is a collection of critical essays by various writers on different aspects of the work of David Madden," Perkins said. "Randy Hendricks of West Georgia University and I solicited the essays and edited them for this volume. I wrote an essay on Madden's short fiction, and Randy wrote an essay on his criticism. Each of us conducted an interview and edited them into a single interview for this volume."
Dr. Vicki Helgeson, professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, will speak about "Surviving Breast Cancer" Tuesday, March 27, at 12:40 p.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center Mueller Theater.
Seraphim, a community chorus, will present their first concert, "A Festival of Lessons and Carols - Through the Eyes of Simeon," Friday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. at Mary, Mother of Hope Parish in New Castle, and Sunday, Dec. 2, at 3 p.m. at Boardman (Ohio) Methodist Church.
Erin Thompson, a ¾¨Ó㴫ý junior music education major, was named to the State Executive Board of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Music Educators Association for the 2008-2009 academic year.
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