Blog Posts by Westmont

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Westmont to receive a
prestigious $178,000 grant for computer science research over two years. The NSF’s
Cyber Trust Program will fund the Westmont project, “Survivable, Adaptive and
Scalable Distributed Systems.” NSF expects to fund fewer than 50 of the 487
proposals it reviewed this year.
“It’s exciting for such a small college like Westmont to receive this award,” says
Kim Kihlstrom, associate professor of computer science, “Although other Westmont

A specialist in 19th century British cultural and literary studies will deliver a lecture at Westmont next month. Associate Professor of English at U.C. Davis Catherine Robson will speak in Hieronymus Lounge, Monday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m as part of Westmont’s Erasmus Lecture Series. Her lecture is entitled “Memorization and Memorialization: Poetry and the Burial of Heroes.”

Local residents will soon be able to connect with about 40 victims of Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita. Westmont Head Baseball Coach Rob Crawford will arrive in Santa
Barbara, Saturday, Oct. 1, after returning to the Gulf Coast for a week. He spent
several days videotaping and interviewing the evacuees who he and 21 other local
volunteers got to know in September.
“There’s so many gaps,” Crawford said. “I hope that Santa Barbara will respond to
this. I’ll show the video and hopefully get some sponsorships. We now need to

San Diego author and physician David Peck will present a slide show and lecture on his book, “Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” 7 p.m. Oct. 6 in Hieronymus Lounge in Kerrwood Hall on Westmont’s upper campus.

Peck has turned his love of the outdoors, history and medicine into a book that details the expedition with wit, explaining that embarking into the wilderness of the 1700s with few medical supplies or medicines was tantamount to suicide.

Princeton Professor Albert Raboteau will speak on “Healing the Wounds of Racism: The Role of Memory and Mourning” 4 p.m. Oct. 2 in Hieronymus Lounge in Kerrwood Hall on the upper Westmont campus.

The lecture, sponsored by the Erasmus Society, is free and open to the public.

Raboteau, the Henry W. Putnam professor of religion at Princeton, will discuss the ongoing effects of racism upon the nation and will suggest that Americans are still struggling to come to terms with the history of slavery and the racial hatred sowed by slavery.

Westmont will focus on the global presence of Christianity by hosting speakers from India and West Papua, Indonesia, this October. The college launched the lecture series, World Christianity and Global Encounters of the 21st Century, in 2002. The goal is to learn how Christian movements affect relationships between rival ethnic and religious groups in the non-Western world.