Media Mentions

On September 17, the Harrisburg Patriot-News featured the Serving and Living Together (SALT) program that allows students to live in downtown Harrisburg at the Harrisburg Institute while still taking their courses in Harrisburg. Student Karisa Martin said about her urban experience, “It’s one thing to sit in a classroom and learn about struggles and injustices. But here you can go out into the community and see them first hand or hear about them first hand. This program is Messiah’s footprint in the city. Hopefully we can bridge that gap.”

“Building a bridge: Messiah program brings people to Harrisburg” is not available online.

The Catholic Witness, a newspaper of the Diocese of Harrisburg, features the efforts of Ray Norman, dean of the School of Mathematics, Engineering, and Business, and several students as they design, build, and implement water pump structures and latrine systems to assist disabled people in Mali, western Africa. The College’s chief contacts in Mali are four Sisters of the Annunciation who train village women in a variety of skills.

Read “Messiah College collaborates with sisters to assist disabled in Africa” on page 16 of the May 22 Catholic Witness.

Recent graduate Corrie Jones cites the excellent physical therapy that she received after tearing her ACL in high school as the motivation for her desire to study physical therapy at Messiah and now at the University of Maryland as a graduate student. Jones, who talked about her experience leading a spring break mission trip to the Dominican Republic to work in one of CURE International’s hospitals, was featured in an August 31 edition of her hometown newspaper, the Herald-Mail.

Read “Hagerstown woman’s injury led to study of physical therapy.”