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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.

A multi-part nature documentary on Animal Planet, “Life in Cold Blood,” includes a segment featuring faculty member Erik Lindquist and his research of Panamanian Golden Frogs. Lindquist’s portion of the program is “Invaders of the Land.”

Twenty-four Messiah students and two educators are safe after the plane they were traveling on was forced to make an emergency landing in West Palm Beach Florida. The group was returning from a J-Term cross-cultural trip to the French West Indies.

Students who seek off-campus professional experiences in line with their major show responsibility for their career choice, according to Michael True, director of Messiah’s Internship Center, in a January 6 “New York Times” article that features experts from higher education institutions around the country.

Genograms are an effective method of tracking family relationships and patterns of physical and mental health, according to Raeann Hamon, professor of family science and gerontology, who is quoted in the Dec. 3 “Newsweek” article, “Know What’s in Your Genes.”

Messiah employees established a new campus giving record by donating more than $28,000 to the United Way as part of the College’s annual pledge drive.

For more than 10 years, the College community has 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 students through placements by the Agape Center for Service and Learning.

An annual list by Publisher’s Weekly includes books by faculty member David Weaver-Zercher and alumnus Jonathan Bean `01 as among the best of 2007. The list of only 150 books includes Weaver-Zercher’s “Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy” and Bean’s children’s book, “At Night.”