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Mission Conference Day of Prayer Open to Public

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The public is invited to attend the New Wilmington Mission Conference (NWMC) Day of Prayer from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July 19, in the Witherspoon Room of the McKelvey Campus Center on the Westminster College campus.

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Westminster College to Host Children's Author for Math Workshop

Author Greg Tang

Westminster College will host children's author Greg Tang for a math workshop Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Maple Room of the McKelvey Campus Center.

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College to Host Environmental Research Symposium

Westminster College and the Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition (SRWC) will sponsor an environmental research symposium Thursday, Dec. 3, at 5:30 p.m. in rooms 150 and 166 of the Hoyt Science Resources Center. The event is free and open to the public.

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College Offers Fall Continuing Education Classes

Westminster College announces several personal enrichment and leisure courses for community residents, covering interests ranging from understanding football to glass painting and learning a new language.

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Chemistry Professor Participated in Undergraduate Faculty Workshop

Dr. Helen Boylan

Dr. Helen Boylan, Westminster College associate professor of chemistry, was a panelist at the "Postdoc to Professor" workshop April 6-8 at Hope College in Holland, Mich.

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College to Host French Film Festival

Westminster College's Departments of Modern Languages and English will host The Tournées Film Festival, a series of French films shown on consecutive Tuesdays, Jan. 31-Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater of the McKelvey Campus Center.  The events are free and open to the public.

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Westminster College Students to Use New Scanning Electron Microscope Through National Science Foundation Grant

Dr. Peter Smith, associate professor of chemistry

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Westminster College science students will have access to a variable pressure scanning electron microscope (SEM) that will be housed at Youngstown State University (YSU) as a result of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.

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Westminster College Chemistry Professor, Students, and Alumni Participated in Pittcon

(l-r) Haley Gabor, Olivia Miller, Gavin Steadman, Krista Ulisse, Nicole George, Scott Braden, Julie Rice, Danielle Murtagh, and Dr. Helen Boylan

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Eight Westminster students, Dr. Helen Boylan, Westminster College associate professor of chemistry, and Dr. Timothy Sherwood, associate professor of chemistry and department chair, participated in the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Pittcon) in March in Philadelphia.

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Gift Revenue Tops $5 Million for Fiscal Year

Westminster College's gift revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30 was $5,010,327, bringing total giving to date toward its $50 million comprehensive campaign to nearly $46 million.

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Westminster College to Dedicate Steinway Piano with Recital

Westminster College will dedicate a new Steinway piano with a recital by Dr. Nancy Zipay DeSalvo, chair of the music department, Sunday, Sept. 19, at 3 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.

 The model "D" concert grand Steinway, the largest piano that Steinway makes, was given by the extended Mansell family in memory of Margaret Louise Young Mansell.  Margaret and her husband, Thomas V. Mansell, are both 1929 Westminster College graduates and long-time New Wilmington residents.

 The concert will begin with the Haydn's "Sonata in G Major," followed by Beethoven's "Sonata #26, Opus 81a."  After a brief intermission, DeSalvo will continue with Rachmanioff's Etudes 2, 6 and 7 from "Etudes-Tableaus, Opus 33," followed by Chopin's "Barcorolle, Opus 60," and concluding with Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2." 

The piano will be permanently housed in Orr Auditorium, where it will be used by piano majors giving formal senior recitals and by Department of Music faculty and guest artists performing in solo and duo recitals.

For more information, contact DeSalvo at (724) 946-7023 or e-mail desalvnj@westminster.edu or Dr. Grover Pitman, coordinator of the event and professor of music, at (724) 946-7274 or e-mail pitmanga@westminster.edu.


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