Elizabeth Petersen '10, a senior art and art history major, worked with Visual Arts Prof. Yan Sun, Director of Special Collections and College Archivist Karen Drickamer, and Director of the Schmucker Art Gallery Shannon Egan to choose the work, theme, and art, and handle publicity, marketing, and design to gain hands-on experience creating an exhibition for a gallery or museum.

The exhibit, "Ancient Ritual Objects of China," will open Nov. 20 with a reception from 6 to 7 p.m. and will run through Dec. 5 at the College's Schmucker Art Gallery. The gallery and reception are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The College's Special Collections contains an extensive compilation of Asian Art spanning several millennia. The works in the exhibition display the expansive use of decorative objects in Ancient Chinese ritual practices, as well as the two major media employed by Chinese artists of the time. Burial practices and the concept of the afterlife were enormously important ideas to Ancient Chinese peoples. This exhibition elucidates the practice of sacrificial offerings and preparation for the afterlife through an explanation of the works and their functions during ritual practice.

For more information, call 717-337-6125 or visit www.gettysburg.edu/gallery.

The 1,600 sq. ft. Schmucker Art Gallery displays exhibitions throughout the year, including shows by local, national and international contemporary artists, a faculty exhibition, a student exhibition, the annual senior art major show and traveling exhibits. The gallery is on the main floor of Schmucker Hall at North Washington and Water streets and is fully accessible. The main entrance is through the quadrangle side of the building. Free parking is available in one of the visitor spots on campus or free, two-hour parking can be found on the streets adjacent to Schmucker Hall.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with approximately 2,600 students. It is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.

Senior Associate Director of Admissions Darryl Jones was a featured panelist at the World Diversity Leadership Summit at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.

Jones, the College's coordinator for multicultural admissions, was invited to speak on "The Competitive Advantage of a Successful Diversity Educational Model." The panel focused on attracting new talent to educational institutions, innovative curriculua, and new partnerships between educational institutions and employers to solve the global talent challenge.

Some 500 senior executives from more than 150 major corporations as well as leaders in government and non-governmental organizations were expected to attend the summit, conducted Sept. 16 and 17. An annual event since 2004, its mission is to be "the leading gathering of global diversity policy makers, experts and practitioners."

Jones, who also serves as intercollegiate athletics liaison, has been with the College since 1985. Throughout his career, he has volunteered as an assistant track and field coach. He holds a bachelor's degree in biology and psychology from Penn State.

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With some 2,500 students, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

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GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Former Pennsylvania Governor and Secretary of the United States Department. of Homeland Security Tom Ridge will deliver the Henry M. Scharf Memorial Lecture Nov. 18 at Gettysburg College.

The 7:30 p.m. lecture will take place in the College Union Building Ballroom.

Ridge will speak about his recent book, "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...And How We Can Be Safe Again." The lecture is free and open to the public.

Live streaming coverage will be available.

Ridge was sworn in as the first director of the Office of Homeland Security in October 2001 and was charged with developing and coordinating a comprehensive national strategy to strengthen protections against terrorist threats or attacks in the United States. Ridge served as Pennsylvania's 43rd governor from 1995 to 2001.

Born in Pittsburgh's Steel Valley, Ridge was raised in a working class family in veterans' public housing in Erie. He earned a scholarship to Harvard, graduating with honors in 1967. After his first year at Dickinson School of Law, he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an infantry staff sergeant in Vietnam, earning the Bronze Star for Valor. After returning to Pennsylvania, he earned his law degree and was in private practice before becoming assistant district attorney in Erie County. He was elected to Congress in 1982. He was the first enlisted Vietnam combat veteran elected to the U.S. House, and was reelected six times.

The Henry M. Scharf Memorial Lecture on Current Affairs is an annual lecture established by Dr. F. William Sunderman in 1977 to honor his long-time friend Henry Scharf, a member of Gettysburg College's class of 1925 and original builder of the Majestic Theater in downtown Gettysburg.

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With a student body of approximately 2,600, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

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A National Science Foundation grant will further Gettysburg College's tradition of student-faculty collaboration on research.

The nearly $120,000 grant will permit two students to work with Gettysburg College physics Prof. Sharon Stephenson on developing new instrumentation to study the structure of exotic atomic nuclei.

Students will work with Stephenson on the assembly, testing, integration, and final testing of a large-area multi-institutional scintillator array at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. One student each will be involved in the summers of 2010 and 2011.

The project, "MRI-Consortium: Development of a Neutron Detector Array by Undergraduate Research Students for Studies of Exotic Nuclei," is a collaboration with other primarily undergraduate institutions: Hope, Concordia, Westmont, Rhodes, and Wabash colleges, the University of Indiana, and Ohio Wesleyan and Central Michigan universities.

This semester, Stephenson and fellow physics Prof. Brett Crawford are leading a seminar for Gettysburg College students in England. "The London Laboratory: Locating Ourselves in Space, Time, and Culture" develops skills like navigation and naked-eye astronomy and explores the history of the London Underground, timekeeping, and other topics. It examines questions such as the meaning of "place" in our definitions of ourselves.

Stephenson's research in nuclei and the weak force takes her to the Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab at Duke University amd the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She teaches courses and labs in introductory and modern physics and classical mechanics and a first year seminar on gender in science and technology. She also coordinates Gettysburg College's Dual-Degree Engineering Program.

She earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Millsaps College and doctorate in nuclear physics at North Carolina State University.

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With some 2,500 students, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.

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Posted Nov. 11, 2009

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Award-winning author and feminist Rebecca Walker will speak Nov. 12 at Gettysburg College's 26th annual Fall Convocation.

The talk will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the college's Christ Chapel at North Washington and Stevens streets. Walker will focus on third wave feminism and identity while weaving her personal experiences into the larger discussion of racism, classism, homophobia and social change. The talk is open to the public at no charge. A book signing will follow the event.

Walker is known for presenting ideas about race, class, culture, gender and the evolution of the human family that challenge ideological rigidity. Named one of the most influential future leaders by Time magazine, Walker is the author of "One Big Happy Family," a collection of essays on polyamory, open adoption, mixed marriage, househusbandry, single motherhood and other realities of modern love. Her essay on President Barack Obama, "The Making of a Man," recently appeared in Newsweek. Her first memoir, "Black, White and Jewish," is about her parent's divorce and her search for identity as a biracial girl. Her follow-up, "Baby Love," is about choosing motherhood after a lifetime of ambivalence.

Walker co-founded the non-profit Third Wave Foundation and has consulted on diversity and gender in the workplace for Microsoft, JP Morgan Chase and others. She is a columnist for the Huffington Post and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Salon and Vibe. A guest on Oprah and Charlie Rose, Walker has spoken at more than 500 colleges, universities and high schools. She is the recipient of the Women Who Could Be President Award from the League of Women Voters.

Walker's talk will be the keynote of Gettysburg College's Fall Convocation, continuing a tradition initiated by students in the 1980s to focus attention on current social issues. Past speakers include Benjamin Spock, Mary F. Berry, Maya Angelou, Alex Kotlowitz, Jocelyn Elders, Kweisi Mfume, Jim Hightower, Jonathan Kozol and Robert Egger.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With approximately 2,600 students, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - The 48th Annual Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture and a premiere composition by John "Buzz" Jones in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial will take place at the Majestic Theater Nov. 19, coinciding with the 146th anniversary of Lincoln's delivery of the "Gettysburg Address."

The 7:30 p.m. event will begin with the premiere of "For the People," an oratorio commissioned by the Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and composed and conducted by Sunderman Conservatory of Music Prof. John "Buzz" Jones. It will feature a brass band and woodwind octet, dance ensembles, soloists, and narration by actor Stephen Lang. A sneak preview will occur Nov. 17 at noon at the college's Musselman Library. Jones was interviewed on WITF radio regarding the composition.

Following the performance on Nov. 19, Michael Burlingame, the Chancellor Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield, will speak on " Abraham Lincoln: New Information, Fresh Perspectives." The $5,000 Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction will also be awarded by Jeff Shaara to Nick Taylor for his book "The Disagreement." Taylor is an assistant professor of English at San Jose State University. A reception and book signing will follow and the event is open to the public at no charge.

The Fortenbaugh Lecture is presented each Nov. 19 and coincides with events scheduled to remember President Abraham Lincoln and his "Gettysburg Address," which he delivered on that date in 1863. Other events scheduled are:

9:30 a.m., Wreath Laying Ceremony, The Soldiers' National Cemetery

10 a.m., Dedication Day Ceremony, The Soldiers' National Cemetery
Lincoln portrayer Jim Getty recites the Gettysburg Address, performances by "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, speaker: Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss
(A live-streaming video link for this event is available at www.palincoln.org.)

11:15 a.m., U.S. Colored Troops Graveside Salute, Soldiers' National Cemetery
Speaker: James Getty, portraying Abraham Lincoln

More information is available at 717.337.6590 or civilwar@gettysburg.edu.


About Burlingame

Born in Washington, D.C., he attended Phillips Academy, Andover. As a freshman at Princeton University, he enrolled in the Civil War course taught by the eminent Lincolnian David Herbert Donald, who took him under his wing and made him a research assistant. When Donald moved to Johns Hopkins University, Burlingame followed him upon his graduation from Princeton. He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Johns Hopkins and joined the history department at Connecticut College in New London, where he taught until retiring in 2001 as the Sadowski Professor of History Emeritus. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Springfield in 2009. Burlingame is the author of "Abraham Lincoln: A Life." He is the author or editor of volumes of Lincoln primary source materials. Burlingame has received the Abraham Lincoln Association Book Prize (1996), Lincoln Diploma of Honor from Lincoln Memorial University (1998) and Honorable Mention for the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College (2001). He was inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois in 2009.

About The Shaara Prize

Established in 1997 by "Gods and Generals" author Jeff Shaara, the $5,000 Michael Shaara Prize is named in honor of his father, author of the novel, "The Killer Angels." The prize, administered by Gettysburg College, honors a novel about the Civil War and encourages fresh approaches to Civil War fiction.

About the Fortenbaugh Lecture

The lecture was sustained during its first two decades by an endowment contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde B. Gerberich of Mt. Joy, Pa., in honor of Fortenbaugh, who taught history at Gettysburg College from 1923 until his death in 1959. The endowment has been substantially supplemented by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harry D. Halloway Fund and Helwett Foundation. Bruce Catton delivered the first Fortenbaugh Lecture in 1962. He was followed by, among others, David Herbert Donald, John Hope Franklin, David Brion Davis, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., C. Vann Woodward, Eric Foner, John Keegan, Drew Faust, Jean H. Baker and Ira Berlin.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With approximately 2,600 students, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.

Gettysburg College will provide land for a community bicycle trail that will pass along the campus's northern edge.

The "Gettysburg Inner Loop" will link various areas of the historic town and connect to surrounding municipalities.

"Gettysburg College is an active supporter of the bicycle loop, which will traverse part of our campus," said President Janet Morgan Riggs. "It both promotes physical fitness and reduces carbon emissions from our roadways, and we are delighted to support this community project."

The trail project is sponsored by the Borough of Gettysburg and Healthy Adams Bicycle/Pedestrian Action Coalition Inc. (HABPI) with support from a broad range of area organizations. Including the National Park Service and the Adams County Office of Planning and Development.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With a student body of approximately 2,500, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The College was founded in 1832.

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College and local officials gathered beside Quarry Lake on the northwest edge of campus, near where the trail will run. From left are Associate Vice President of Communications and Public Relations Patricia Lawson, Alumni Relations Director Joe Lynch, Borough Council members Susan Naugle, Michael Birkner, and Claire Lewis, Director of Facilities Planning Jim Biesecker, College President Janet Riggs, and Tom Jolin of HABPI. Birkner is also a history professor.

Twelve students make up this year's group of undergraduate fellows at the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College. As fellows, the students develop leadership skills and grow their knowledge and understanding of public policy. Each fellow selects an individual public policy issue to focus on during the year. They also serve on the Eisenhower Institute's College Advisory Council and participate in events in Gettysburg and Washington, D.C. Some of the students reside in the home where Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower lived in 1918, which also houses the EI's Gettysburg offices.

Dr. Eileen Stillwaggon, professor of economics and director of the international affairs program at Gettysburg College, serves as the EI's Harold G. Evans Professor. Stillwaggon works closely with the fellows on their projects, which range from researching disease, poverty, and healthcare in Africa to organizing conferences, panel discussions, and lecturers on economic and diversity policies in the United States.

"The undergraduate fellows represent the best of Gettysburg College," EI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Blavatt said. "Their service to the Eisenhower Institute is concurrent with our mission to ‘prepare successor generations' who will be the leaders of tomorrow. They are an integral part of the work of this Institute."

Here's a closer look at this year's fellows:

Hadiatou Barry '10 is majoring in economics and globalization studies with a focus on economic development and governance in Africa. Born in Guinea, West Africa, she split her youth between Guinea and the United States, and is interested in the relationship between the two. She interned at the Corporate Council on Africa in Washington, D.C., which allowed her to learn about economic and political issues between the U.S., Africa, and private sectors. She is involved in Youth Action for Rural Africa, International Club, and Black Student Union.

Lawrese Brown '10 is from East Orange, N.J. She is double majoring in individualized studies and Africana studies. Her individual major, Writing for Public Policy, centers on using the shared goals of public relations and public policy ¬to act as mediator between policy and people. This past summer, she interned with the Yankee Entertainment and Sports (YES) Network, and she currently works in the Office of Communications and Public Relations at Gettysburg College. Lawrese also participates in the EI's "Inside Politics" program, is a member of the senior class gift committee, and volunteers with the Center for Public Service.

Robyn Byrne '10 is pursuing a double major in economics and international affairs. She is from Mendham, N.J. Robyn serves as the secretary for the Class of 2010 and works at the Center for Career Development. She studied abroad last spring in Muscat, Oman and would like to return to the Middle East to live and work. She hopes to pursue a J.D. program in international law in the future.

Munyaradzi Choga '12 is a native Zimbabwean who is majoring in economics and computer science. He enjoys researching trends of global stock markets and African economic development, participating in online share market and investment simulations, learning to build professional websites, and reading.

Jen Davis '10 is majoring in health sciences with a minor in Spanish and is from Fairfax, Va. She studied abroad in Peru last spring, learning about the indigenous culture and improving her Spanish. She has worked for three years with the Center for Public Service as a program coordinator for El Centro, an after school program for Hispanic youth in Gettysburg. Jen plans to continue her education to become a pediatric physical therapist in the field of early intervention. As an EI fellow, she will be studying the unmet needs of long term therapy in the U.S. and in southern Africa.

Sebastian DiNatale ‘10 is majoring in political science with a double minor in Italian and film studies. He is from Voorhees, N.J. His passion for news media led him to start an on-campus television station, Gburg TV, and serve as news director for the college's radio station WZBT and editor-in-chief of The Forum, an online student news source. Other campus activities include serving as president of Il Circolo Italiano, vice-president of the student improv group, Shots in the Dark, and participating in EI's "Inside Politics" program. Sebastian interned as a production assistant for MTV News in New York and as an all-platform journalist for CNN News in Los Angeles.

Calynn Dowler ‘10 is majoring in political science and German. She is from Latrobe, Pa. She has received a presidential scholarship from Admissions, a 2008 Mellon grant for research, a 2008-09 DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship, and a DAAD Alumni Association Award of Academic Excellence. Calynn also received the Eisenhower Institute's 2008 Hilton Award for Study Abroad and spent the past academic year studying at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. She has worked as a community volunteer, German Peer Teaching Assistant, research assistant, and collaborative literary translator. She also participates in EI's "Inside Politics" program.

Sandra Gillot ‘10 is a Haitian American student, who has born in Brooklyn, N.Y., but lives in Philadelphia. A political science major, Sandra hopes to pursue a career as a corporate lawyer and specialize in immigration law. She plans to contribute and give back to areas that aid students in becoming bound for higher education.

Patrick Hughes '10 is double majoring in economics and political science. He is from Lagos State in Nigeria. Patrick lived in Italy for three years prior to coming to Gettysburg. He has volunteered as an assistant program co-coordinator at the Coalition for Community Care, a non-profit organization that helps students improve their grades in school. Patrick is also president of the college's International Affairs Association.

Lucy Marinova '10 is majoring in economics with a minor in Chinese. A native Bulgarian, Lucy is involved in the college's experiential education program, GRAB, and is a member of the International Club.

Atlang Mompe '10 is majoring in political science with a minor in French. She received a 2007 Mellon Grant to research the role in high HIV prevalence in Botswana and implications for the effectiveness of first line anti-retroviral therapy. Last summer, she took part in a public policy and international affairs program at Princeton University. This fall, she attended the AIDSImpact Conference in Botswana and presented a poster on the Implications of Endemic Cofactors and HIV/AIDS. After Gettysburg, she plans to return to her native Botswana to work on the problem of HIV/AIDS.

Svetoslav Semov '11 is majoring in economics with a minor in math. A native Bulgarian, he has participated in more than 120 mathematical competitions. He is also very interested in the social sciences, serving as a Peer Learning Associate in the economics department and as a tutor in Calc Aid.

The Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College is a non-partisan, non-profit, presidential legacy organization that develops and sponsors civic discourse on significant issues of domestic and international public policy. In 1918, Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower came to Gettysburg, where he commanded America's first tank training camp. The Eisenhowers bought a farm near the battlefield, which he used as a retreat during his presidency and where he recovered from a heart attack. He became a trustee of Gettysburg College and wrote his memoirs in what is now the college's admissions office, known as the Eisenhower House.

While interning at NBC News in New York, Andrew Arenge, Class of 2010, was "in the control room during any breaking news," including "when we announced that Michael Jackson had passed away."

Arenge also worked on NBC's exclusive "Inside the Obama White House" special. He interned previously with the Yankee Entertainment Sports (YES) Network, working with Gettysburg College alumni Ray Hopkins '87 and Eric Handler '86.

Arenge was far from the only Gettysburg College student to complete an impressive media internship this past summer.

"The opportunity to go to Washington, D.C., to go to CBS, and to see how they make the news every night, is an experience that I'll never forget," said Josh Scheinblum, Class of 2011.

Scheinblum worked directly with Gettysburg College alumna Laura Strickler '95, a producer in CBS's Investigative Unit. His internship included being CBS's representative at the "Blue Dog Democrat" press conference, where he got to ask a question.

Olivia Branco, Class of 2010, also took advantage of extensive internship opportunities offered by Gettysburg College's Center for Career Deveopment.