7/13/2005		Business students travel to Beijing
7/6/2005		Grad named to alumni relations post
7/6/2005		E-town profs featured in Science & Theology News

Assistant Professor of Finance Liang Tang led a group of 10 E-town College business students on a two-week study tour of Beijing, China. The students heard lectures on a number of topics -- including China's economic and business system and international trade, foreign direct investments and the unique culture of Chinese companies -- given by Dean and Professor Zhongxiu Zhao of the University of International Business and Economics. They also learned some basic Chinese language. In addition, the group visited the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, The Forbidden City and Summer Palace, and watched a Peking Opera show and acrobatics show.  

Mark Clapper has been named associate director of alumni relations and director of the Parent Fund at Elizabethtown College. A 1996 graduate of the College, he previously worked in the admissions office for nine years, most recently as associate director of admissions.

During his tenure at Elizabethtown, Clapper was very active in the Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling and has held numerous leadership positions within the organization’s executive and sub-committee groups. Clapper also holds memberships within the National Association for College Admission Counseling, Hawaii Association for College Admission Counseling and Ohio Association for College Admission Counseling. Outside of his admission work, he has been a member of Elizabethtown College’s Web Oversight Committee, and at one time, served as assistant coach for the Blue Jay men’s and women’s tennis teams.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Michael Silberstein was interviewed for the website of Science and Technology News. Additional examples of "E-town College in the News" are available at the media relations newsroom.

Michael Silberstein is interested in the challenge of formulating a Theory of Everything, a task that has occupied the brightest minds in science for the past century. An associate professor of philosophy at Elizabethtown College and an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Silberstein and his colleagues Mark Stuckey and Michael Cifone argue in recent articles and book chapters that their concept of a Relational Blockworld provides a way to arrive at the relatively modest beginning of unifying special relativity and quantum mechanics. If all goes well, they hope to extend their theory into a Theory of Everything. Science & Theology News web editor Matt Donnelly spoke with Silberstein about the Relational Blockworld and its implications for the dialogue between science and religion.