News Archive
Student Receives Grant for Undergraduate Biology Research
The Westminster College Drinko Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning awarded an undergraduate research grant to Michelle Johnston, a Westminster College senior biology major.
Music Students Selected for Master Class
Two Westminster College music performance majors will perform for a master class Sunday, March 29, at Youngstown State University.
College Awarded Master's Degrees in December
Six Westminster College students were awarded master of education degrees in December.
Auditing Class Visits Local Accounting Firm
Westminster College students in the auditing class taught by Jesse Ligo, Westminster associate professor of accounting and 1982 Westminster graduate, visited the New Castle office of Carbis Walker Sept. 17.
Seniors Presented Capstone Research Results at Undergraduate Conference
Westminster College seniors Neil Pilarski and Aaron Zavora presented the results of their capstone research at the 2011 Penn State Behrend Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference April 16.
College to Host Children's Book Author Feb. 7
Westminster College will host children's book author Karen Lynn Williams for a presentation and book signing Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel. The program is free and open to the public.
Westminster College Professor Publishes Paper
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. David Cushman, Westminster College Captain William McKee professor of economics and business, published an article in the September issue of the online journal Econ Journal Watch.
Area Students Added to Westminster College's List of Accomplishments
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Eleven students have been added to the Spring semester's lists of accomplishments at Westminster College.
Field Station to Dedicate Memorial Garden Oct. 4
The Westminster College Field Station will dedicate the Margaret "Meg" Rankin Memorial Garden and Nursery Saturday, Oct. 4, at 3 p.m. The event, at 937 Fayette-New Wilmington Road, is open to the public.
Westminster's Faculty Forum Investigates the Legitimacy of Russian Romanov Rule
Dr. Russell Martin, associate professor of history at Westminster College, will present "Power, Legitimacy and Remembering the Royal Dead in Muscovy" Wednesday, Sept. 29, at 11:45 a.m. in the Sebastian Mueller Theater in the McKelvey Campus Center.
"My research explores the way official commemorations of royalty were manipulated by the new regime to suggest that the new dynasty, the Romanovs, were the legitimate heirs of the old dynasty," Martin said. "I found new sources that demonstrate rather starkly how tenuous and uncertain Romanov rule was in its first decades, despite the later histories that would have us believe, falsely, it seems, that the Romanovs came to power by 'divine right.'"
Faculty forum, established in 1990, serves as a venue for the exchange of ideas and information among Westminster College faculty. Speakers present their research, teaching ideas, lectures, performances, special programs, and uses of technology to keep faculty informed about the work of colleagues from many disciplines.
Martin appeared on A&E Biography in a broadcast on Ivan the Terrible as an expert on the controversial ruler, and has been an expert witness in a Canadian civil trial about the Russian royal family. He is the co-founder of the Muscovite Biographical Database, a Russian-American computerized register based in Moscow of early modern Russian notables. The Neville Island, Pa. native is not only fluent in Russian, but also reads Old Church Slavonic/Russian, French, German, Latin, and Polish.
Martin, who has been with Westminster College since 1996, earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and his master's and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
For more information, contact Martin at (724) 946-6254 or e-mail martinre@westminster.edu.
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