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		<title>Messiah President Kim Phipps honored for civic leadership by the Salvation Army</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Salvation Army of the Harrisburg Capital City Region has named President Kim Phipps as its 2012 Salvation Army Civic Honoree. The Salvation Army will recognize President Phipps at a special dinner on Tuesday, May 15, where she will be honored by her colleagues and supporters from the regional business, nonprofit, civic and educational communities.  
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/05/15/phipps_sahonor/</link>
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		<title>World Vision awards Collaboratory project teams $733,000 to improve access to water and sanitation in Ghana, Niger and Mali</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World Vision has awarded the Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research at Messiah College a contract for two projects that will be funded at $733,000 over three years with money from the Conrad Hilton Foundation. 
The Collaboratory is a center for multidisciplinary service and scholarship at Messiah College that enables participants to apply academic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/05/14/collab_grant/</link>
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		<title>Messiah College class of 2011 employed at a rate significantly higher than national average</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Accountants, artists, engineers and English majors alike aren’t having trouble finding employment, according to a post-graduation survey administered by the Messiah College Career Center.
Ninety-five percent of survey respondents from the Class of 2011 indicated that they were employed or in a graduate/professional program within six to nine months after graduation.  That rate is significantly higher than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/05/07/graduates_employed/</link>
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		<title>Messiah College earns place on 2012 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Messiah has been recognized for its commitment to service on campus and in the community with a place on the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
This year’s recognition was noted by PennSERVE: The Governor’s Office of Citizen Service.
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		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/05/01/honor_roll-2/</link>
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		<title>Chemistry professor Rick Schaeffer and students granted National Science Foundation monies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Schaeffer, associate professor of chemistry, was recently awarded a National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation Project Seed Grant for his project, “The Use of Phosphate (Apatites) as Heavy Alkaline Earth Metal Remediation Agents,” an investigation using materials based on readily available minerals to render some heavy-metal pollutants less dangerous in the environment.  Specifically, Schaeffer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/04/23/schaeffer_nsf/</link>
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		<title>Messiah College earns Tree Campus USA designation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Messiah College is one of 148 colleges and universities nationwide to receive Tree Campus USA designation from the Arbor Day Foundation. Tree Campus USA recognizes sustainably managed college campuses and their commitments to effective community forestry management.
Tree Campus USA was launched in 2008 by the Arbor Day Foundation as a way to honor colleges, universities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/04/17/tree_campus/</link>
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		<title>Student Katie Todd honored as 2012 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Katie Todd `13 is one of 162 students selected as a 2012 Newman Civic Fellow, an award recognizing inspiring college student leaders who have worked to find solutions for challenges facing their communities.
Todd is passionate about environmental justice. She volunteers weekly at an urban farm in Harrisburg. She also works with the Agape Center for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/04/16/katie_todd/</link>
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		<title>Messiah College Christmas event wins premier award from event directors association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the 32nd annual  conference of The Association of Collegiate Conference and Events Directors-International  (ACCED-I) in Denver, Colorado,  Messiah College was awarded the Outstanding Institutional Achievement Award 2012 for the “Messiah College Christmas,” in the category of one-time events. 
Messiah College Christmas is a collaborative effort between many on-campus offices, including the president’s office, development, marketing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/04/10/mc_christmas_award/</link>
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		<title>Philosophy professor Robin Collins to explore neuroscience and the soul with Biola University fellowship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robin Collins, professor of philosophy at Messiah College, received a $48,000 Senior Fellowship from the Center for Christian thought at Biola University for the spring semester of 2013.
Collins’ proposal is to further elaborate a potentially revolutionary view of the human soul which he published recently in a highly acclaimed article. His fellowship is part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/04/04/collins_biola/</link>
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		<title>Messiah College uses DEP grant to protect water quality of campus stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Foster, Messiah College professor of biology and environmental science, is managing a $35,800 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to plant a riparian buffer along 500 feet of a stream, located at the base of Cemetery Hill, which feeds the Yellow Breeches. The buffer will resemble a meadow; sycamore and other native [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.messiah.edu/news/2012/03/29/dep_grant-2/</link>
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