Faculty Research
Recently, we asked our faculty to update us on their research projects. We received a diverse and interesting list of ongoing projects. We also received the following comments from one of most venerable faculty members. We enjoyed the quote so much and the list of research projects that we thought we would share both with you.
"Westminster College is a teaching institution. An institution at which the faculty are largely PhD or equivalent holders who pride themselves on having an intense desire to help their students come to some reasonable understanding of a particular subject matter and who spend long hours toward effecting that goal." “Westminster is a liberal arts college… it means to me that: 1) I need to be ‘current’, to the extent that I am able to be, about the whole of my discipline; 2) I need to be somewhat current on what is going on in academe and other related disciplines; 3) I need to teach cross-disciplinary courses which means doing a lot of research just to be effective; and, 4) I need to help my students make sense of the research that is ‘out there’.” Douglas Fickess, Professor of Biology
A Sampling of Current Research Projects