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A longtime Westmont theater professor helped create a process encouraging college students to develop short plays. In the past 13 years, the Hive has yielded 120 plays by MFA playwrights from various universities, providing eclectic and diverse material for Westmont’s annual Fringe Festival.

Mitchell Thomas, who has taught acting, voice and movement for more than two decades, has now edited a landmark volume featuring 20 of these works, “The Future is Short” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026).

Read More: https://www.westmont.edu/westmont-news/professor-publishes-short-play-collection

Congratulations to alum Michael Hemmett ’25, who received a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship to support his pioneering work in marine geology and geophysics.

Read More: https://www.westmont.edu/westmont-news/alum-earns-nsf-fellowship-underwater-volcano-research

Biologist Jeff Schloss, who retired after 45 years of teaching and scholarship at Westmont, offers an intimate, firsthand account of his recent diagnosis of an extremely rare terminal neurological disease, and a personal testimony of a Christian experience of dying. The Conversing Podcast is part of Comment Magazine.

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What It Is Like to Be Dying, with Jeff Schloss Against persistent fear of death, mortality avoidance, and the vice...

What shapes our character and what are we fighting against?

Rebecca DeYoung explores how Christian virtue formation is deeply communal, relational and countercultural in a world dominated by individualistic self-help culture and screen-driven habits.

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Closing Comments | Dr. Rebecca DeYoung Dr. Rebecca DeYoung, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College, del...

Alumna Stephanie Sandberg '92 co-edited a special section of Critical Stages, a peer-reviewed theater journal published by the International Association of Theatre Critics.

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Stephanie Sandberg Serves as a Guest Editor for the Critical Stages Journal Stephanie Sandberg, associate professor of theater at Washington and Lee University, recently served as co-editor for a special section of the June 2026 edition of Critical Stages, a peer-reviewed …

Westmont men’s basketball competes in a memorable cross-cultural athletic exchange in Taiwan from July 28-Aug. 2. The Warriors open the five-game BLIA Cup tournament against teams from the Brian Kerle Basketball Academy of Australia, the University of Tsukuba in Japan and the Hou Chon Sports Club of Macau, China.

Read More: https://athletics.westmont.edu/news/2026/7/13/260713_MBB.aspx

How are Westmont students growing and adapting to the real world as we share our experiences with the fast-paced world of technology and AI?

Come find out at CATLab's sixth annual Impact Conference this Friday, July 31.

Learn More: https://www.westmont.edu/westmont-news/catlab-bridges-students-tech-careers

Westmont's Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture and Dallas Willard Research Center hosted 100 scholars and ministry leaders for the annual Christian Formation Workshop.

Listen to welcomes from President Gayle D. Beebe and Steve Porter, senior research fellow and executive director of the Martin Institute:

Opening Comments | Conversatio Divina

The 2026 schedule is here‼️

The Warriors are ready for another exciting season. Mark your calendars and join us this fall!