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  • Criminology Program

    Criminology Program

    Posted: Thursday Dec 1, 2011
    Saint Vincent College Criminology, Law and Society Program presented a program about the Innocence Project entitled, Reconciling Truth and Freedom: The Criminal Justice System and the Phenomenon of Wrongful Convictions, to nearly 200 persons at the Fred M. Rogers Center on November 29.
  • SVC Student to Compete in Miss Pennsylvania Pageant

    SVC Student to Compete in Miss Pennsylvania Pageant

    Posted: Wednesday Nov 30, 2011
    Saint Vincent College junior political science and business management major Taylor Berinti will be among the 54 young women competing from across the state for the title of Miss Pennsylvania USA this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Pittsburgh, the official preliminary to the Miss USA Pageant.

  • Thomas Octave Directs Clarion County Musicians

    Posted: Tuesday Nov 29, 2011
    Thomas Octave, assistant professor of music and chair of the music department at Saint Vincent College, directed more than 140 high school students in a day-long musical workshop and then a cumulative evening concert on Tuesday, November 22 sponsored by the Clarion County Music Educators Association.
  • Dr. Bradley Watson Presented Thoburn Excellence in Teaching Award at SVC

    Dr. Bradley Watson Presented Thoburn Excellence in Teaching Award at SVC

    Posted: Tuesday Nov 29, 2011
    Dr. Bradley Watson, chairperson and professor of politics and the Philip M. McKenna Chair of American and Western Political Thought at Saint Vincent College, was presented with the Thoburn Excellence in Teaching Award at the annual Founders’ Day Honors Convocation in the Basilica on November 17 in recognition of his excellence in teaching, dedicated service to students and his commitment to the Benedictine values of Saint Vincent College.

  • Fr. Rene Kollar's Book Published in England

    Posted: Tuesday Nov 29, 2011
    A book by Fr. Rene Kollar, O.S.B., professor of history and dean of the Saint Vincent College School of Humanities and Fine Arts, A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England, which was published in the United States in spring 2011, was recently published in England by James Clarke and Co. Ltd. of Cambridge.
  • Kennametal Chair to Speak at SVC December Commencement

    Kennametal Chairman to Speak at SVC December Commencement

    Posted: Monday Nov 28, 2011
    One hundred and twenty-eight students – 41 undergraduates and 87 graduate students – who completed requirements in August or December will receive their degrees at the seventh annual December commencement ceremony of Saint Vincent College at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 17 in the gymnasium of the Robert S. Carey Student Center. Principal speaker will be Carlos M. Cardoso, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Kennametal Inc., who will also be honored with the conferral of an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.

  • WPNR Announces Christmas Open House December 3

    Posted: Monday Nov 28, 2011
    Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve at Saint Vincent College is hosting a Christmas open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, December 3. 

  • Ben Schachter's Light Bulb Chess Set Appears in New York Times Video

    Posted: Tuesday Nov 22, 2011
    A chess set made out of light bulbs by Ben Schachter, associate professor of fine arts at Saint Vincent College, recently appeared in a video on the New York Times website.

  • Dr. George Leiner to Assist Stanford Press Editors

    Posted: Tuesday Nov 22, 2011
    The editors of the Stanford University Press Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche have asked Dr. George H. Leiner, associate professor of philosophy and liberal arts in the department of philosophy of the Saint Vincent College School of Humanities and Fine Arts, to aid them in the completion of this project.
  • Br. Nathan Cochran First to Receive New SVC Award Recognizing Initiative that Made a Difference

    Br. Nathan Cochran First to Receive New SVC Award Recognizing Initiative that Made a Difference

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    Br. Nathan M. Cochran, O.S.B., instructor in fine arts, director of The Saint Vincent Gallery and artistic director of the Saint Vincent College Concert Series, was named the first winner of Saint Vincent College’s new Projektenmacher Award in recognition of his creative initiative that, in the spirit of Saint Vincent Founder Boniface Wimmer, has made a valuable difference to the campus community through creativity, imagination and vision. The award was presented by Saint Vincent College President Br. Norman Hipps, O.S.B. during the Founders’ Day Honors Convocation on November 17 in the Saint Vincent Basilica.

  • SVC Awarded $50,000 Snee-Reinhardt Grant for Two New CIS Computing Labs

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation has awarded a grant of $50,000 to Saint Vincent College to support the acquisition of hardware and software for two new computing labs for the Computing and Information Science (CIS) Department in the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing, according to an announcement by Br. Norman W. Hipps, O.S.B., president.
  • Dr. Anthony Serapiglia Brings Teaching, Corporate Experience, Baseball, Jazz to Computing Classroom

    Dr. Anthony Serapiglia Brings Teaching, Corporate Experience, Baseball, Jazz to Computing Classroom

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    Inspired by the New York Herald Tribune’s Roger Kahn who wrote a popular memoir, The Boys of Summer, about his relationship with his father and their love for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Dr. Anthony Serapiglia was sure he wanted a career in sports writing.
  • SVC Grad Students Attend State Conference

    SVC Grad Students Attend State Conference

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    Five Saint Vincent College graduate students in the Master of Science in Special Education degree program attended the Pennsylvania Council for Exceptional Children annual conference in Harrisburg on November 3.
  • Two Boyer School CIS Students First to Complete NSF Research Experiences

    Two Boyer School CIS Students First to Complete NSF Research Experiences

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    Two students at the Herbert W. Boyer School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computing are the first Computing and Information Science majors to complete National Science Foundation-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) last summer.
  • SVC Service Corps Sponsors Hat, Mitten Drive

    SVC Service Corps Sponsors Hat, Mitten Drive

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    The Saint Vincent College Service Corps for Exceptional Children (SCEC) is sponsoring a hat and mitten drive to benefit the Welcome Home Shelter, a safe lodging for homeless women and families in Greensburg.

  • Westmoreland County High School Mock Trial Students to Participate in Closing Arguments Competition at SVC

    Posted: Monday Nov 21, 2011
    Saint Vincent College Department of Criminology, Law, and Society will host a Mock Trial Closing Arguments Competition for students from eight Westmoreland County high schools from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, December 7 at the Fred M. Rogers Center. They will present closing arguments to a panel of judges for a fictitious legal case that will be decided by a volunteer jury.

  • SBDC Hosts 'Your Budget - A Profit Plan for Your Business'

    Posted: Friday Nov 18, 2011
    Saint Vincent College Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is offering the seminar, Your Budget – A Profit Plan for Your Business, on Thursday, December 8, at Saint Vincent College, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Registration is required. Cost is $40 or $35 each if two or more attend together. Each attendee will receive program materials, a $10 gift certificate toward the cost of another Saint Vincent College SBDC seminar, and an optional free one-year subscription to Inc. Magazine. 
  • SVC Grad Climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro, Raises $85,000 for Children with AIDS

    SVC Grad Climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro, Raises $85,000 for Children with AIDS

    Posted: Monday Nov 14, 2011
    An avid skier who calls herself “outdoorsy,” Saint Vincent College graduate Stephanie Hewitson recently completed a challenging climb to the top of Africa’s snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world, to raise nearly $100,000 for the American Foundation for Children with AIDS.
  • SVC VP Dennis Thimons Winner in CFO of the Year Competition

    SVC VP Dennis Thimons Winner in CFO of the Year Competition

    Posted: Friday Nov 11, 2011
    Saint Vincent College Vice President of Finance and Administration and Treasurer Dennis P. Thimons has been named the winner in the non-profit category of the Pittsburgh Business Times Chief Financial Officer of the Year Competition for 2011.
  • Chinese University Delegation Visits SVC

    Chinese University Delegation Visits SVC

    Posted: Thursday Nov 10, 2011
    A delegation of six administrators from Qingdao Agricultural University (QAU), a provincial university of Shandong Province of China with campuses in Qingdao and Laiyang, met with Saint Vincent College administrators and faculty on November 9 to discuss the implementation of the cooperative agreement signed with Saint Vincent College for study abroad by QAU students at SVC, faculty exchanges across all disciplines, and other academic initiatives.