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Ed Groves, ¾¨Ó㴫ý adjunct music faculty, was one of seven inaugural inductees to the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association's (PMEA) Hall of Fame. The induction was held April 24 during the PMEA annual conference in Valley Forge.
Kathy Koop, ¾¨Ó㴫ý professor of art, will speak at Faires Faculty Forum Wednesday, March 24, at 11:40 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.
Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, ¾¨Ó㴫ý associate professor of music, was guest soloist with the Youngstown (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra Oct. 24 at Powers Auditorium.
¾¨Ó㴫ý first-year student John Jones recently received a scholarship through The Community Foundation of Westmoreland County (CFWC). The funds will be applied to his tuition for the 2011-2012 academic year.
¾¨Ó㴫ý's Drinko Center for Experiential Learning and the Lawrence County Community Action Partnership (LCCAP) sponsored the sixth annual poverty simulation March 22 in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Two teams of ¾¨Ó㴫ý students participated in the 2012 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) East Central North America Programming Contest Nov. 2-3 at Youngstown State University.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Daniel Perttu, ¾¨Ó㴫ý assistant professor of music theory and composition, recently had his composition, "Toccata for Piano Duo," published by Editions Musica Ferrum, who are based in Athens, Greece.
¾¨Ó㴫ý graduate, Cassandra L. Treshok '11, will return to her alma mater to present "Working on Environmental Sustainability in a Corporate Setting" Thurs., March 5 at 12:45 p.m. in Phillips Lecture Hall, located in the Hoyt Science Resource Center. The event is free and open to the public.
¾¨Ó㴫ý professors Dr. Craig Caylor, an assistant professor of physics, and Dr. Samuel Lightner, professor of physics, recently presented papers at the Western Pennsylvania section of the American Association of Physics Teachers Conference held at Edinboro.
 Lightner's presentation,"New Materials from the Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP)," featured the new teaching chart, "The History and Fate of the Universe," and provided the participants with information about a workshop for high school teachers for using this chart in the classroom. He also talked about the CPEP's chart, "Fusion: Physics of a Fundamental Energy Source, The Standard Model of Fundamental Particles and Interactions, and Nuclear Science."Â
 Caylor's presentation, "The Multiplicity of a Three-State System," compared the results obtained in a limited number of systems, such as the two-state systems, with a method that students can directly calculate the multiplicity of a three-state system.
 Lightner, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 1970, earned his undergraduate degree from Randolph-Macon College, and his master's and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
 Caylor, who has been with ¾¨Ó㴫ý since 2001, earned his undergraduate degree from Kansas State University, and his master's and Ph.D. from Indiana University.
 For more information, contact Lightner at (724) 946-7204 or e-mail lightner@westminster.edu or Caylor at (724) 946-7202 or e-mail caylorcl@westminster.edu.
¾¨Ó㴫ý will welcome 390 new students Friday for the start of its 153rd academic year.
Dr. David Barner, associate professor of broadcast communications and department chair, will be the featured speaker at Opening Convocation at 1:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
The Fresh Start team, comprised of 80 returning ¾¨Ó㴫ý student volunteers, will greet the 368 freshmen and 22 transfer students and help move them into residence halls. The volunteers will also assist with the four-day freshman orientation. Classes begin Tuesday, Aug. 30.
¾¨Ó㴫ý limited its incoming freshmen class to approximately 365 students this year from nearly 17,000 inquiries and 1,400 applications.
"Since we stress quality over quantity, it forces us to make some tough admissions decisions," said ¾¨Ó㴫ý Dean of Admissions Doug Swartz. "We have implemented an early action program to help high achieving students secure a spot in future classes. We also have two special merit scholarships to allow Presbyterian pastors and ¾¨Ó㴫ý alumni employed in the education field to nominate deserving students during the early action phase."
"We already have over 11,000 high school juniors inquiring about admission for fall 2006," Swartz added. "We are at capacity in our residence halls and will be building student townhouse apartments this year. We expect admission into ¾¨Ó㴫ý to be even more competitive next year."
The class of 2009 comes to ¾¨Ó㴫ý with a solid academic background, and an average high school grade point average of 3.41 in core classes. The ¾¨Ó㴫ý freshmen have an average SAT score of 1,074 nearly 70 points higher than the average score in Pennsylvania and 60 points higher than the national average.
"We strive to keep class sizes level each year, and becoming an impersonal mega-university is not part of the ¾¨Ó㴫ý plan," according to President R. Thomas Williamson.
"We have a strategic plan that emphasizes controlled growth. We strive to become a better college, not a bigger college," Williamson said. "¾¨Ó㴫ý prides itself on recruiting bright, well-rounded students, and then exceeding their expectations while they are here. The unusual level of attention students receive at ¾¨Ó㴫ý has led to our rankings as a national leader in graduation rate performance, while remaining one of the most affordable national liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania. We are pleased to see that prospective students and their parents value the distinctive attributes ¾¨Ó㴫ý has to offer."
Total enrollment, including Graduate school and the Lifelong Learning Program, will likely surpass 1,600 in the fall. An additional 300 to 400 area residents will take non-credit courses at ¾¨Ó㴫ý throughout the year.
Contact Doug Swartz at (724) 946-7107 or swartzdl@westminster.edu for more information.
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