Wilson’s 13th annual Student Research Day is Friday, April 29. Experience some of the fantastic research and creative projects Wilson students have done this year with the guidance of their faculty mentors. From treating white nose syndrome in bats and cancer in humans to making campuses safer for all, these students have contributed significantly to our understanding of science, medicine, art, and civilization. The student researchers will present their research live or display it on posters in the library’s Lenfest Learning Commons and the Brooks Science Center. More than 70 students representing multiple disciplines will present their work.
The live presentations will shine spotlights on the mental health of single mothers, giraffe behavior in the wild, the presence of bacteria in cat foods, the likelihood of Lyme disease becoming a chronic infection, plastic pollution of the Conococheague Creek, and much much more. Presentations at the library’s Lenfest Learning Center will kick off at 8.50 a.m. with a welcome address by President Wesley R. Fugate. Presentations in the Brooks Science Center auditorium will kick off at 9.20 a.m. with an address by Dean of Faculty Elissa Heil. After a break for lunch around noon, oral presentations will resume in the Brooks sudatorium at 1.30 p.m. They will conclude with this year’s Disert Scholar Delaney Banzhof presenting on the efficacy of telehealth therapy.
You can view the poster projects displayed in the front lobbies of both the Library and Brooks Science Center. They will cover subjects as wide-ranging as potential treatments for brain cancer, suicide prevention, the effects of incarceration, and chronic conditions. The student researchers will be available to discuss their projects and answer your questions between noon and 1.30 p.m. at both locations.
The live presentations and poster sessions are free and open to the public. The complete schedule is available here, and zoom links for the oral presentations will be available on my.wilson portal.
Michael Cerveris, the Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning actor and musician, will address the graduating class of 2022 at our 152nd annual commencement ceremony Sunday, May 15.
“We are delighted that Michael Cerveris could step away from his filming schedule to be with our new graduates on this pivotal day in their lives,” said Wilson president Wesley R. Fugate. “His success on stage and screen will inspire them to persevere and make their dreams come true.”
Cerveris has acted in numerous plays, television series, and films. He received Tony Awards for starring roles in the Broadway productions of “Fun Home” and “Assassins” and won a Grammy Award for the cast recording of “The Who’s Tommy.” He has also starred in “Sweeney Todd” and “Titanic,” among many stage appearances, earning an additional four Tony Award nominations in the process. His films include “Ant Man and The Wasp,” “Cirque Du Freak,” and “The Mexican.” His television appearances include Showtime’s “Billions,” David Fincher’s “Mindhunter,” Stephen Soderberg’s “Mosaic,” and “The Knick,” in addition to one of his most popular roles as The Observer on the hit series “Fringe.” He can now be seen as Watson in HBO’s new series “The Gilded Age.”
As if acting in a breathtaking number of plays, series, and films wasn’t enough, he has recorded three solo albums, toured with punk icon Bob Mould of Hüsker Dü, and has been a guest soloist with the New York Philharmonic and The National Symphony of Washington, D.C. These days, he primarily performs with his singing and writing partner Kimberly Kaye and their Americana band Loose Cattle.
When not acting or playing in the band, Cerveris raises money and brings attention to the many social and charitable causes close to his heart. For each of the last 13 years, he has participated in the M.S. Society’s Walk, raising over $160 thousand. He is an active and longtime supporter of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, G.M.H.C., and the Actors Fund. He often performs in support of humanitarian causes, including “From Broadway With Love: A Benefit for Sandy Hook” and the “What The World Needs Now” recording and concert for the Pulse Nightclub shooting victims.
The United States Conference of Mayors and the Board of Directors of Americans For The Arts honored Cerveris in 2017 with The Citizen-Artist Award, which “recognizes artists who have made the highest contributions both in their professional artistic endeavors to advance the arts as well as in their personal charitable pursuits to improve the world.”
Raised in Huntington, W.V., Cerveris attended public schools for most of his education before spending two years at the Phillips Exeter Academy and graduating cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in the humanities.
Orchesis, Wilson’s dance company, will host an outdoor community dance concert Friday, April 22, at 6 p.m., featuring amateur and professional dancers from the College and the region. The show is free and open to the public and will take place on the Mistick Quad (rain date Sat., April 23, at 6 p.m.). According to dance professor Megan Mizanty, M.F.A., this is “a celebration of dance throughout the region and the resilience of these dance studios over the past two years.”
Dancers from Hagerstown, Md., Shippensburg, Pa., and Chambersburg, Pa., will join Wilson students to perform “Still, I Rise,” a series of 11 autonomous dances. The dances, some short, others a little longer, connect around the themes of rising and renewal — rising after the difficulties of the pandemic, the phoenix rising, the return of spring, and the ability to overcome challenges. It’s also a celebration of the joy of movement and the power of art to lift us all.
The performance will introduce the audience to various new and traditional dance forms, including contemporary, jazz, modern, lyrical, ballet, and Bollywoood (a fusion of traditional Indian with hip hop and other pop forms). And it will feature dancers from Chambersburg Ballet, Shippensburg’s Dance Academy XIV, Hagerstown’s KMR Dance Collective, and the College’s Orchesis dance company. The concert will last a little over an hour. For more information, go to https://www.wilson.edu/dance2022.
The College welcomed Tanya I. Garcia, Ph.D., the deputy secretary of the Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education at the Pennsylvania Department of Education, to campus Friday, April 1. Garcia was accompanied by her colleague Kimberly McCurdy, Ph.D., the Bureau of Postsecondary and Adult Education director.
“We are proud of the supports we deliver to our students, making higher education attainable and affordable for all,” Wesley R. Fugate, Wilson’s president, said. “Dr. Garcia’s visit highlights our work to prepare a better-educated citizenry for the jobs of the future.”
The visitors took a tour of the student development offices in Lenfest Commons, where they spoke with staff from the Wellspan Clinic, Counselling Center, and Phoenix Against Violence about the services they offer students and staff. Next, they met with Rev. Derek Wadlington and learned about Sarah’s Cupboard and how the food bank helps feed students in need.
After that, they walked to Prentis Hall and toured the Single Parent Scholar housing. Katie Kough, the assistant dean of students, told them about the initiatives, programs, services, and staff that support single parents and help them succeed in college.
“Wilson College has been pioneering services to students with basic needs long before it became a trend,” Garcia said after the visit. “It was an honor to meet all of the dedicated staff who are increasing students’ sense of belonging on campus.”
Fifteen Wilson students attended the 97th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science. Through oral and poster presentations they shared their scientific research and engaged in dialogue with scientists at all academic levels.
The students presented research with faculty advisors in biology, biochemistry, and chemistry. The research covers a wide variety of topics from antifungal chemical compounds to Lyme disease syndrome to comparing raw based diets to a kibble diets for dogs.
Brandi Cook - An evaluation of Salmonella spp. and Escherichia coli in feline commercial raw meat-based diet and kibble
Calista Wolfe - The comparative effects of a raw based diet versus a kibble diet on the reduction of dental calculus in dogs
Shaylene Vargas -The combinatorial effects of lumefantrine and tetrandrine on the radiation sensitivity of U-87 glioblastoma cells
Presenting at PAS is an excellent opportunity for students to share their discoveries while developing their presentation skills and learning from others in their field.
Elijah Klopp - Use of camera collars to monitor reintroduction risks to Oryx dammah, scimitar- horned oryx
Shealyn J. Holzinger - The effectiveness of sulfuretin as an antifungal chemical compound compared to clotrimazole on Trichophyton rubrum
Jacob Slifka - Quantifying the contact-independent inhibitory effect of cinnamon bark oil on the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans
Joshua Howells - Effects of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome and potential causes
Jacob Whittington - Analysis on the outcomes of physical therapy on patients with shoulder injuries in different age group
Congratulations to Blanca Villeda on winning first place in the scientific poster competition with her presentation on a comparative study of primary land use and microplastic concentrations of sediment in the Conococheague Creek.
Wilson will hold a reception at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23, to mark the opening of the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition, presented by the Department of Fine Arts and Dance, will continue through April 20 in the Bogigian Gallery on the second floor of Lortz Hall.
The show is an opportunity for students to share their work with the community. The exhibition will feature drawings, paintings, prints, graphic design, ceramics, photographs, and mixed-media artwork with a wide array of subject matter and content.
This year’s juror is Lisa Harman, a local artist and full-time faculty member at Biglerville High School. Harman holds a B.S. in Art Education from Temple University, an M.Ed. from Shippensburg University, and an M.F.A. from Wilson.
The exhibition is modeled after the famous salons of 19th century Paris when the French government organized official exhibitions juried by respected artists and academics. After some 3,000 artists were rejected from the salon in 1863, protests erupted, which forced Napoleon III to order an exhibition of the refused works.
In the spirit of including the nonconforming artists who had been “refused” by the French, state-sponsored event in 1863, Wilson’s student art exhibition will also include a “Salon des Refusés (Salon of Refusals)” in the Lortz Hall studios.
The Bogigian Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For additional information or an appointment, contact Professor of Fine Arts Philip Lindsey at 717-264-2783 or philip.lindsey@wilson.edu.
The Foundry, at 100 South Main Street in downtown Chambersburg, will host an exhibition of artwork by Wilson studio art and graphic design students. The show will open on Feb. 25 and continue through March 20, 2022. The event is free and open to the public.
The exhibition will be the sixth exhibit in a partnership between The Foundry and Wilson. The College’s history as a community partner dates to the institution’s founding; its commitment to rich and meaningful partnerships continues as the community grows and evolves. The Foundry, a grass-roots, artist-led organization, and the College’s Division of Arts & Letters share similar visions for local art and artists. Both promote creative thinking through artistic exploration and expression, host artworks that educate and inspire, and provide a framework for local and regional artists to collaborate and share work with a broader audience.
The partnership provides opportunities for exhibition exchanges. Foundry artists exhibit their artwork at Wilson College each fall, and Wilson students have the opportunity to exhibit at The Foundry each spring.
For additional information, contact Professor Philip Lindsey at 717-264-4141, Ext. 3305, or philip.lindsey@wilson.edu or Anne Finucane at The Foundry at 717-261-0706.
MEDIA CONTACT: Philip Lindsey, Professor of Fine Arts Phone: 717-264-2783 Email: philip.lindsey@wilson.edu
The College will host a lecture series exploring Wilson women and their contributions to our community. All lectures are free and open to the public. The first two can be attended in person or via Zoom. The third will be available via Zoom only. You can register to receive the Zoom links at https://www.wilson.edu/WHM
Tuesday, March 1, noon at the John Stewart Memorial Library or via Zoom The Experience of a Lifetime: Captain Joan Hankey in Her Own Words Amy Ensley, director of the Hankey Center for the History of Women’s Education, will tell the story of the Navy Captain from her college years at Wilson and her fascinating career in the Navy through Hankey’s letters home to her family as well as conversations between Ensley and Hankey over the years.
Wednesday, March 9, noon at the John Stewart Memorial Library or via Zoom Navigating the COVID Crisis: Balancing Physical and Mental Health Julie Beck, professor of nursing, leads a panel of four nursing and two health science students to discuss working through the COVID crisis, coping with stress, and balancing work and life.
Tuesday, March 15, noon via Zoom only The Good Life: A Conversation Between a Painter and a Writer Painter Melissa Widerkehr ’72 and writer Charlotte Weaver-Gelzer ’72 will have a conversation about their work, perseverance, choices, bumps along the way, and reasons for steadily writing, painting, and sculpting over the last 50 years.
Wilson College Office of the Registrar Fall 2021 Dean’s List
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The Bogigian Gallery will host an exhibition of artwork by students from Hagerstown Community College (HCC) from Feb. 2 through Feb. 28.
The show features drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs by current visual arts students from HCC’s Department of Visual Arts. HCC and Wilson are partnering to provide opportunities for students seeking growth in their disciplines and an exhibition venue outside Hagerstown. The exhibition also provides a professional-like gallery experience for those students wishing to transfer to Wilson or other four-year institutions. Both colleges offer degrees in visual art, graphic design, and web design and collaborate to benefit students thinking about furthering their education and working toward a bachelor’s degree.
HCC and Wilson work with students to develop broad disciplinary skill sets, content knowledge, and critical and creative thinking skills to prepare tomorrow’s leaders for the challenges of a complex world. The exhibition celebrates institutional collaboration, student scholarship, and artistic voice.
The Bogigian Gallery, on the second floor of Lortz Hall, is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free. For additional information or an appointment, contact Professor of Fine Arts Philip Lindsey at 717-264-2783 or philip.lindsey@wilson.edu.
