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Lady Pesed, Westminster College's 2,300-year-old mummy, will move Tuesday at 9 a.m. from her home in the Mack Science Library (Hoyt Science Resources Center) to the Lawrence County Historical Society. Distinguished pall bearers will move Lady Pesed into a hearse for her 12-mile trip. Lady Pesed will be part of a month-long "Ancient Journeys: A Study of Egyptian Burial Practices" exhibit.
Dr. Robert Bullard, a leading expert on environmental justice, will present "Race, Place and Environmental Justice" Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. in the Witherspoon Rooms of the McKelvey Campus Center.
Ten Westminster College students attended a workshop on international security Dec. 4, hosted by the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jennifer Louth, a Westminster College junior business administration major, won the 2011 David W. Edward Entrepreneurship Scholarship competition. The award includes a $2,500 academic scholarship.
Four Westminster College senior biology majors presented their capstone research at the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) Jan. 3-7 in Charleston, S.C.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Gregory Clark and Sarah Carlson were crowned Westminster College Homecoming king and queen during the halftime festivities Sept. 29.
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Four Westminster College students were awarded master of education degrees at Commencement exercises May 19.
Twelve Westminster College faculty recently received promotions.
The Right Rev. Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, the 106th Bishop of Rochester, will deliver the 18th annual Wayne H. Christy Memorial Lecture Sunday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
Westminster College will present Nazir-Ali with the honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Cause (L.H.D.).
Nazir-Ali, who was born and raised in Pakistan and currently holds citizenship in his native country and the United Kingdom, will speak on "The Role of Religion in the Current International Situation." He was the youngest Anglican bishop in the world, and the first Asian religious leader to sit in the House of Lords.
He is the author of a number of books on Christian mission and on inter-faith issues, particularly on Islam. He was the chair of the group which wrote The Search for Faith published in 1996, which examined some of the barriers to people believing in Christ today. He is a regular contributor to national, international and local newspapers, the Church Press, radio and television.
Nazir-Ali's first ecclesiastical appointment was as an assistant at the Christ Church in Cambridge at the age of 21. Other posts include Provost of Lahore Cathedral and Bishop of Raiwind, both in Pakistan. He was appointed a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's staff in 1986, and assisted with the planning preparation of the 1988 Lambeth Conference, where he prepared the Report of Pastoral Letters. Nazir-Ali was appointed Bishop of Rochester in 1994, where he heads 264 Anglican churches with more than a million members.
The Wayne H. Christy Lecture Series annually honors Dr. Wayne H. Christy, who was a long-time faculty member and chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Westminster College. The program seeks out men and women who distinguish themselves by relating religion to issues of contemporary life.
For more information, contact the Westminster College Chapel Office at (724) 946-7115. For more information about Bishop Nazir-Ali, e-mail Chris Stone at chris.stone@rochester.anglican.org
Aaron Bruck, a junior chemistry major at Westminster College, recently learned that his summer research project has been published in the March 7 issue of the "Journal of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry."
Bruck, was listed as one of the authors of "Triflic acid-catalyzed adamantylation of aromatics in [BMIM][OTf] ionic liquid; synthetic scope and mechanistic insight" along with Kenneth K. Laali (Kent State), Viorel D. Sarca (Tulane), Takao Okazaki (Kyoto University, Japan), and Paul Der (Kent State). Bruck was a partner in this research conducted during his summer internship at Kent State University.
Bruck is a son of David and Eva Bruck, Grove City, and a graduate of Grove City Area High School.
For more information contact Dr. Martha Joseph, associate professor and chair of chemistry, at (724) 946-7295 or e-mail josephm@westminster.edu.
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