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“Fanfare” magazine prints rave review of new Messiah College Wind Ensemble CD

May 12th, 2014

The spring issue of “Fanfare,” the pinnacle of recording reviews for the music industry, offered a rave review of “Stained Glass Windows,” the most recent recording of the Messiah College Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brad Genevro, associate professor of music and director of bands.

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Four education department seniors present at the Council for Exceptional Education’s International Convention

May 6th, 2014

Seniors Domenic Adnolina ’14, Danielle Morabito ’14, Laura Parks ’14 and Vicki Hepp ’14 co-presented with Melinda Burchard, assistant professor of special education, at the leading conference in the field of special education, the Council for Exceptional Education’s International Convention in Philadelphia. The students addressed the topic of middle school math interventions.

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Student Ian Gallo ’14 wins Au Sable Calvin B. DeWitt Leadership Fellowship

April 28th, 2014

Messiah College student Ian Gallo ’14 is the recipient of this year’s Calvin B. DeWitt Leadership Fellowship, an Au Sable recognition of Gallo’s commitment to reforming agricultural systems. A sustainability studies major, Gallo has invested his efforts on campus to manage the community garden and lead the College’s composting efforts.

Read about Gallo’s Fellowship.

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Sophomore Jeffrey Stiles ’16 earns prestigious Boren Scholarship to study in China

April 21st, 2014

Politics major Jeffrey Stiles ’16 has won a Boren Scholarship to China. Courtesy of the U.S. government, Stiles will spend 2014-15 doing Chinese language study as well as taking courses in politics and economics at the Shanghai International Studies University. The Boren is administered by the Institute of International Education—the same agency that looks after the Fulbright—and is designed for undergraduates who wish to do a year of language training in countries that the U.S. State Department deems of national security interest. Stiles is Messiah’s second Boren scholar; Bianca Basch (2012) won for Thailand in 2010-11.

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Kaleb Loht wins national championship; wrestlers earn third in Division III

March 16th, 2014

Kaleb Loht earned the National Championship in the 141 lb. weight class to lead Messiah to third place in Division III. The Falcons finished third with 60 points–the highest team finish ever to Messiah.

Read the summary at http://gomessiah.com/news/2014/3/14/WREST_0314145607.aspx?path=wrestling.

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Messiah nursing students place third in NCLEX Challenge Bowl

February 5th, 2014

The Messiah College Student Nurses’ Association Chapter placed third in the SCORE! NCLEX Challenge Bowl statewide competition held at the PA State Student Nurses’ Association Convention in November. This was the first year a team from Messiah participated in the competition.

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Taylor Driggers `13 is first undergraduate published in the “Journal of Inklings Studies”

November 25th, 2013

Taylor Driggers’ `13 essay “Modern Medievalism and Myth: Tolkein, Tennyson, and the Quest for a Hero” was published in the Oct. 2013 “Journal of Inklings Studies,” making him the first undergraduate to ever be published in this literary journal. In this particular issue, Driggers’ essay appears with one by Crystal Downing, distinguished professor of English and film studies.

According to the abstract, “This essay considers Tennyson’s portrayal of an autonomous, evolved Arthur in Idylls of the King as a segue into the modernist context against which Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings. While Tennyson’s mythmaking has all the outward trappings of the medieval tradition, it uses this setting to put forth ideas reflective of the Victorian faith crisis and anticipatory of the modernist obsession with autonomy and progress. Tennyson’s Arthur functions as a modernist’s Messiah, standing in stark contrast to Tolkien’s Frodo, who more fully embodies a Christian ideal that the modernists would interpret as medieval or obsolete. The Lord of the Rings is, in this light, a deconstruction of Tennysonian heroism and a re-establishment of the Christian virtues of humility, self-denial and sacrifice as the pinnacle of true mythic heroism.”

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Seventy Messiah athletes honored on Middle Atlantic Conference spring academic honor roll

July 30th, 2013

A total of 790 student-athletes earned Spring Academic Honor Roll honors from the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC), including 70 Messiah College athletes who had a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or higher. In addition to the 790 student-athletes, six were distinguished for having a 4.0 grade point average, including Messiah student Peter Shuck `15, member of the men’s tennis team.

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Kaitlyn Kulp `14 awarded de Jager prize for her academic performance during Scholars’ Semester in Oxford

July 16th, 2013

de Jager prizes recognize students who demonstrate exceptional academic performance during their participation in the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford, England. Junior English major Kaitlyn Kulp received the award for her fall 2012 semester abroad.

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Kelly Warner `13 and Erik Hornberger `12 selected for U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarships

June 14th, 2013

Kelly Warner `13 and Erik Hornberger `12 are among approximately 610 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who received a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). CLS participants spend seven to 10 weeks in intensive language institutes in one of 13 countries.

Warner’s host country is Russia. She is an English major with teaching certification. Hornberger’s host country is Japan. He is currently enrolled in the Ph.D. engineering program at the University of Kansas.

The CLS program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages.

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