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 the national employment rate of 56%, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
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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 Service and Learning as the Sustainable Agriculture Coordinator, connecting volunteers with opportunities to serve in local organizations related to food distribution, gardening, and advocacy.
As a Newman Civic Fellow, Todd will join a network of Fellows around the country. Together — sharing ideas and tools through online networking — the Fellows will leverage an even greater capacity for service and change, and will continue to set examples for their classmates and others.
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Kristy Pavlis `13, a music education major studying trumpet, was a semi-finalist in the National Trumpet Competition recently held at George Mason University.
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Xu Ren `12 is one of eight junior research fellows selected by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for their prestigious fellowship program. During his fellowship, Xu Ren will work in Carnegie’s Asia Studies program.
The Carnegie Junior Fellow program is highly competitive. More than 400 schools nominate candidates. Between 25 and 30 are brought in for interviews for less than 10 positions. Candidates are assessed based on an essay, academic study, work experiences, grades, recommendations and a personal interview.
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In early November, a team of three Messiah College students–Michael Adams `13, Anthony Spargo `13, and Zachary Felix `15–came in third out of 159 college/university teams participating in the Middle Atlantic United States Regional Programming Contest of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). The contest pits teams of three students against a dozen complex computer programming problems with a grueling five-hour deadline.
Because of their strong performance, Messiah’s team is one of 100 invited to the international World Competition in Warsaw, Poland next May.
The students were advised by computer science professor Scott Weaver, ITS programmer Jason Long, and alum Jonathan Corbin `03.
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Everybody wants to know, what’s the secret to the success of Messiah’s men’s and women’s soccer programs? It’s really no secret at all, as players and coaches explain in this NCAA On Campus video.
“In a field loaded with NCAA Division I talent, how does a kid from a small Division III school hang with the big boys,” asked the Harrisburg Patriot-News in a July 27 article about Messiah golfer Matt Burkhart and his impressive second place finish at the PA Amateur Championship. Read the rest of this entry »
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Once again Messiah’s accounting students have been very successful in being selected for Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) scholarships. This spring the PICPA awarded 40 scholarships to Pennsylvania accounting students, and three Messiah College students were selected: Alanna Sweester, Brent Sensinig, and Isaac Won. Only Villanova students received more (four). One other school received three – Penn State University.
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Members of the Class of 2011 set a goal of raising $7,002 (which is the reverse of the year they started at Messiah College: 2007) to fund a restoration project on the Yellow Breeches Creek. More than 68% of seniors gave a total of $7,065.18 to the cause. This makes them the most generous class in College history in both categories of dollar amount and participation!
The senior gift will be used to build a deflector downstream of Messiah’s beloved covered bridge. The deflector will function as a deterrent for erosion but also as a put-in and take-out spot for water recreation. These efforts are a part of a larger Yellow Breeches Restoration Project directed by David Foster, associate professor of biology and environmental science, and will begin this summer.
Though erosion of the Breeches’ banks has been an issue for years, this gift couldn’t come at a more convenient time. A record setting rainfall this spring has caused the Breeches to flood more than usual. The overall restoration efforts intend to counteract flooding and other causes of erosion to preserve the Breeches for years to come.
This is the third year that Messiah’s senior class has raised funds to further a sustainability project either locally or abroad.
You can read more about Foster’s overall plans for the restoration project as described in a recent Swinging Bridge article.
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Jennifer Esbenshade, a double major in chemistry and math, has been granted a prestigious and highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Esbenshade will attend the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, one of the nation’s top ten 10 chemistry graduate schools, for doctorate work in materials chemistry. During her time at Messiah College, Esbenshade was a member of the Honors program and active in the Collaboratory. She also landed an internship at the prominent Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Esbenshade is not the first Messiah student to receive a fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Steve Frank `05, a student at Colorado School of Mine, Emily Howell `10, a student at Cornell University, and Mike Foster `02, a faculty member at George Fox University, all also received NSF Fellowships while students at Messiah.
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