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The Central PA Blood Bank recognized Messiah for donating more blood than any other local college this spring semester. The campus community donated 182 pints this spring and 412 pints, or 51.5 gallons, this academic year.

Barnabas Servant Leadership Awards recognize James Krimmel for providing fraud prevention and detection workshops internationally, and Jessanna Hall `09 for coordinating youth mentoring and prison ministries.

Krimmel is a professor of accounting at Messiah. He has worked extensively with Hope International and World Vision. Hall is a student leader at the Agape Center for Service and Learning. In addition to her role as Youth Mentoring and Prison Ministries coordinator, Hall co-founded “Project B,” a ministry to the homeless.

Messiah employees generously donated $31,000 to the United Way as part of the College’s annual pledge drive.

This year’s donation total reflects a nearly 7% increase in giving.

For more than 10 years, College employees have been encouraged to donate to the United Way during an annual pledge drive. The United Way of the Capital Region touches many central Pennsylvanians in need by funding important programs administered by local non-profit organizations. Many of the organizations supported by the United Way are also served by Messiah students through placements by the Agape Center for Service and Learning.

The College was recognized for annually hosting Area M’s Special Olympics and for volunteering more than 58,000 community service yearly.

Messiah’s nomination highlighted that “Messiah College promotes community awareness by teaching their students to build community and to champion the rights of others less fortunate. Last year students volunteered more than 58,000 community service hours.”

Furthermore, “the College has totally opened their arms to Area M and has become an integral part of our world. The entire campus participates in the games from the college president to the maintenance staff to the students. We would not be able to help as many athletes as we do, if it was not for the fantastic dedication and support we get from the college. They are our HEROES!”

“Harrisburg” magazine’s list of “savvy, active, and enlightened older adults” includes Robert Ives, a retired educator who taught at Messiah for 33 years.

According to the magazine, the S.A.G.E. Awards program “was designed to acknowledge our region’s older adults for their spirit and service and affirm the positive legacy they leave for future generations.

A state grant funds further development of WERCware, a device that allows individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger’s to have a virtual coach in their places of employment.

Read more about this Collaboratory project.

The event highlights how the local church, technology, and entrepreneurship create opportunities for genuine social change.

The symposium is hosted at Baylor University.

These sounds, along with interviews, will be broadcast on public radio Friday and Saturday.

Faculty members Randy Zwally, director of the guitar studies program, and Kim Yunez, professor of Spanish, took students on a cross-cultural trip to Spain to experience and explore the country’s history, architecture, and culture while recording sounds in a variety of locations, including the shop of renowned guitar artisan Antonio Marin.

Local National Public Radio station, WITF 89.5, will broadcast reports about the trip as well as the recorded sounds on Sept. 5 and Sept. 6.

The “Artbeat” feature will air on Sept. 5 at 5:35 a.m., 7:35 a.m., and between 2:30 and 3 p.m. The Sept. 6 broadcast will be twice during “Weekend America:” either at 1:29 and 3:29 p.m. or 2:29 and 4:29 p.m.

Three seniors and professor David Pettegrew continued excavation work at the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project on the southern coast of Cyprus earlier this summer. International teams of students and professors uncovered small trenches and a fortification wall that point to a settlement from around 600-100 B.C.

Faculty and students recorded their findings and experiences in a series of blog postings.

The results of the season will be posted on the PKAP website.

Don Pratt, professor of engineering, has been selected, via a national search, as the engineering content director for the third season of the PBS television series, “Design Squad.” This Peabody Award-winning program seeks to get kids excited about technical careers by showing how two teams of students solve engineering challenges to earn points.