ST. PAUL, MN — Macalester
College celebrated the inauguration of Brian C. Rosenberg
as its 16th president on March 6 with a dinner for trustees and
donors and a party for students, faculty, staff and alumni. Rosenberg
is a former dean of faculty at Lawrence University in Appleton,
WI.
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SITKA, AK — The Rev. Jerry L. Van Marter, coordinator
of the Presbyterian News Service, has been elected to the
board of trustees of Sheldon
Jackson College. Van Marter, a native of Tacoma, WA, also
is on the boards of directors of the Associated Church Press and
the Presbyterian Writers Guild.
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GROVE CITY, PA — Beginning this fall, Grove
City College will offer a new major in computer science. The
curriculum was developed after a survey of the best computer-science
programs at 20 U.S. schools, including Carnegie Mellon University,
Stanford University and MIT.
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DANVILLE, KY — A research paper by Centre
College senior Sarah Hermann has been published in The
Pierian Spring, an undergraduate humanities journal. Hermann,
of Louisville, KY, wrote the piece — “Art and Activism:
Heaney’s Response to Conflict in Northern Ireland”
— for an Irish literature course. It examines poet Seamus
Heaney’s treatment of Catholic-Protestant conflict.
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