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Westminster College Earns Presidential Honor Roll Recognition for Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) honored Westminster College with a place on the 2010 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for its support of volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement.
Broadcast Communications Major Received Drinko Research Grant
Westminster College junior broadcast communications major Adam Carswell received an undergraduate research grant from Westminster's Drinko Center for Experiential Learning.
Westminster College Associate Professor to Teach Course Based on Israel Excavation
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Dr. Beverly Cushman, associate professor of religion and Christian education, spent a month in Nazareth, Israel, serving as Registrar of Artifacts for the new excavation of Shikhin.
Westminster College Education Students Attend National Autism Conference
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. - Five senior Westminster College early childhood/special education majors and their instructors attended the National Autism Conference July 29-Aug. 1 at the Pennsylvania State University Conference Center.
Westminster Opera Students to Present "The Legend of Carmen"
Westminster College Opera Workshop students faculty will present "The Legend of Carmen," Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.
The story centers around two men, Don Jose and Escamillo, who are both in love with a gypsy named Carmen. Through imprisonment, carousing in taverns, bullfights, and smuggling adventures, the audience will follow the escapades of these characters, until a murder brings the story to a tragic and dramatic end.
The opera is directed by Dr. Anne Bentz, assistant professor of music, and the Westminster College Orchestra is directed by Mihai Valcu, adjunct music faculty member. William Turney is Technical director. The chorus consists of Westminster faculty and students, as well as students of the New Wilmington Middle School.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Bentz, at (724) 946-6045 or e-mail bentzah@westminster.edu.
Westminster History Professor Joins Team of Translators for Russian Heiress
Dr. Russell Martin, associate professor of history at Westminster College, recently joined a team of translators who are creating an English-language version of the Web page for Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Maria Vladmirova, the current legal heiress to the vacant throne of Russia.
"The website, www.imperialhouse.ru, contains separate pages outlining the claims of the Grand Duchess to the throne; the laws of succession, and other documents such as press releases and official statements by the Heiress. It also highlights the news items on the activities and travels of the members of the Imperial Family," Martin said. "It's a very smart-looking Web page, but it is all in Russian. I have already translated a large batch of legal texts on the laws of succession, and am moving on to other sections of the webpage."
This is not the first work Martin has done for the Royal Family of Russia.
"My service to them began more than a decade ago, when I gave expert testimony in a deposition in a legal case brought in Canada against someone who had published unhistorical and scurrilous charges against the rights of Grand Duchess Maria's now deceased father, Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich," Martin said. "I have also published articles in encyclopedias on the Royal Family, where I outline the complexities in the Russian succession and make the case for Grand Duchess Maria's rights. I have also been granted access to archival materials of the Russian Orthodox Church that shines a new light on the questions of the Russian monarchy. I hope to convert this work into a book that I'll start to write next year.
"My work on the Web page was in many ways aided by Kristin Kronstain, a history student who is studying the Russian language with me as an independent study," Martin said. "She studied Russian in Moscow last summer, and over the course of this year, her skills with Russian have improved to the point where I felt confident that I could ask her to tackle some of the translation work. Her help was important to the project and useful, I think, to her since she got a chance to pull her head out of a textbook and actually apply the skills she is working on."
Martin appeared on 'A&E Biography' in a broadcast on Ivan the Terrible as an expert on the controversial ruler. 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.
Kronstain, a junior history major, is a daughter of William and Lorraine Kronstain, Wexford, and a graduate of North Allegheny High School.
Contact at Martin at (724) 946-6254 or e-mail martinre@westminster.edu for more information.
Classics Professor Presents Research
Dr. Dwight Castro, professor of classics and chair of the Westminster College Religion, History, Philosophy, and Classics Department, recently presented his research, "Ad libitum Latin Composition: A Holistic Approach" at the American Philological Association (APA) in Montreal.
"This presentation was based on my experience with a Latin class I taught in spring of 2004 and will influence my next offering of this class," Castro said. "I was one of five presenters at the workshop 'Active Latin in the Classroom.'
"This was the first time in history of the APA that a session on this topic has ever been accepted by the Program Committee," Castro said. "This presentation was based on my own experience with a Latin class I taught in Spring of 2004 and will influence my next offering of this class. In 2004 I changed my approach to teaching Latin composition to focus more on allowing students to compose, in Latin, short, connected paragraphs on topics of their own choosing, rather than on simply having them translate into Latin the prescribed English passages found in the traditional Latin composition texts. My presentation focused on this new approach and included not only what I perceive as its strengths, but also certain weaknesses that I plan to address in future offerings of this class."
Castro, who has been with Westminster College since 1970, earned his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and a master's and Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Contact Castro at (724) 946-7150 or e-mail castroad@westminster.edu for more information.
Westminster College Receives $67,000 NSF Grant
estminster College has recently received a $67,000 grant from the National Science Foundation under the "Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement" program.
International Opera Star to Perform at Westminster College
David Malis, an international opera star, will perform at Westminster College, Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Memorial Chapel.
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