L. Marlin Eby

1986 - present

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

B.A., Millersville University, 1973;

M.Stat. and Ph.D., University of Florida, 1975 and 1978

Angela C. Hare

1996 - present

Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair

Dr. Hare came to Messiah College in 1996 from graduate school at American University, where her research focused on effective strategies for helping students learn calculus. She continues to work on developing materials for calculus and other mathematics courses that are based on research in mathematics education. Dr. Hare teaches introductory mathematics, calculus, linear algebra, geometry, statistics, and secondary mathematics curriculum and instruction. She is also advisor to the Collaboratory Education Group, in which she and her students work in partnership with teachers at a primary school for disabled children in West Africa.

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Niklas K. Hellgren

2010 - present
Visiting Professor of Physics

Robert A. Kilmer

1998 - present
Associate Professor of Business Information Systems and Management

Dr. Kilmer is an associate professor of business information systems and management at Messiah College and a faculty mentor in the applied management and decision sciences division of Walden University. He graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in mathematics education, from the Naval Postgraduate School with an M.S. in operations research, and from the University of Pittsburgh with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. He taught systems engineering at the United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, and artificial intelligence at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.

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Abaz Kryemadhi

2006 - present
Assistant Professor of Physics

Dr. Kryemadhi grew up in Albania and completed his bachelor's degree in Physics at the University of Tirana there. After two years at the University of Siegen in Germany, he came to the United States to study particle physics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. There his research focused on search for CPT violation with D-mesons and measruing the lieftime of the Lb particle. Abaz continued his work on Lb at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory as a post-doctoral researcher with University of Virginia. In 2006, he came to Messiah college where he teaches Physics. Abaz and his wife Ilse have two daughters Anisa and Rovena and enjoy camping, hiking and traveling.

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Brian A. Nejmeh

2002 - present
Professor of Business Information Systems and Entrepreneurship

Professor Brian Nejmeh comes to Messiah from the business community where he was founder and President of a software company. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University and a B.S. from Allegheny College. A sports enthusiast, Brian enjoys running, fishing and coaching his children's various athletic teams.  His special area of church service has been ministering to those with developmental disabilities. Being the parents of a multiply-disabled child, Brian and his wife Laurie started a ministry to the disabled in his former home church in Virginia. They have three children: Mary (16), Emily (13), and Albert (9). The family lives in Lancaster.

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2007 - present
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

B.S., Messiah College, 1997;

M.S., Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2002, 2007

Dr. Owen studied electrical engineering as an undergraduate at Messiah College. After two years on staff at Messiah, doing video production for Media Services and using computers for much of that work, he went to graduate school at West Virginia University to study computer science. At WVU, his research in software verification involved the development of an efficient alternative to model checking tools. His experiments showed that a simple, random search of the behavior represented by a formal software model can often be nearly as effective at finding defects as a much more time (and memory) consuming exhaustive search. After finishing his M.S., he continued his research another year through funding from NASA and then returned to WVU to pursue a Ph.D. After finishing his Ph.D. in 2007, he joined the faculty at Messiah College. He lives in Dillsburg with his wife Gretta and their son Gareth, born in February 2008. He and his wife have been involved with the Summer Institute of Linguistics program at the University of North Dakota since 2002, first as students and more recently as teaching assistants.

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Douglas C. Phillippy

1993 - present
Associate Professor of Mathematics

B.A., Shippensburg University, 1983;

M.S., Ph.D., Lehigh University, 1986; 1991

Gene Rohrbaugh

2007 - present

Professor of Computer Science

B.A. Millersville University 1987;

M.A. and Ph.D., University of Texas, 1993, 1995

Dr. Rohrbaugh grew up in Lancaster as a member of the Lancaster BIC congregation. He graduated from Millersville University with majors in Russian and Computer Science, and then went on to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, where his research focused on formal models for the semantics of natural language. After a brief time in software development, he has held academic positions at Messiah College and California Baptist University. He joined the department full time in 2007. His teaching interests include programming and programming languages, data structures & algorithms, artificial intelligence, and the ethics of technology. Gene, his wife Ann, and their four children live in Mechanicsburg and are members of the Mechanicsburg BIC church.

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D. Scott Weaver

2002 - present
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

B.A., Messiah College, 1985; M.S. in Computer Science, Shippensburg University, 1998; Ph.D., Pace University, 2010

Mr. Weaver comes to Messiah after spending seven years in the computer industry as a program analyst and consulting, and nine years teaching mathematics and computer science at Mechanicsburg Area High School. He has received his Cisco Certified Network Associate certificate in 2003 and has brought that expertise into the networking classroom. He also ministers at Daybreak Church as a short-term missions trip leader.

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Lamarr C. Widmer

1988 - present
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Samuel P. Wilcock

2001 - present
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics

Dr. Wilcock is a graduate of the Mathematical Sciences Department, and joined it as a member of the faculty after completing his doctorate in statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) where his dissertation focused on nonparametric experimental design. While there he taught several undergraduate courses and consulted on numerous research projects. At Messiah he has taught ten different courses, and enjoys finding more effective ways to help students grasp course material. He and his wife Joy live in Lemoyne with their family, and are involved with youth ministry at Mechanicsburg Brethren in Christ Church.

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Jennifer D. Engle

2002 - present

Adjunct Instructor in Computer Information Science

Sharon Hines

2012 - present

Physics Lab Manager

B.S. Clemson University; 1979
M.S. North Carolina State University, 1982

Cynthia L. Lehman

2004 - present

Adjunct Instructor in Computer Information Science

B.A., Messiah College, 1994;

M.E., Loyola College, 2001

Beverly Motich

1999 - present

Adjunct Instructor in Information and Mathematical Sciences

B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1973;
M.S., University of Maryland University College, 2006

Bev Motich is an adjunct instructor of business information systems at Messiah College and a full time Career Management Specialist for the Navy Supply Information Systems Activity (NAVSISA) in Mechanicsburg, PA, where she has been employed for over 35 years. She graduated from Penn State with a B.A. in Linguistics, and from the University of Maryland University Center with an M.S. in Electronic Commerce. She taught all aspects of computing technology for NAVSISA from 1980-1999 and was an integral force in NAVSISA’s recruitment of entry level Information Technology workers from 2000-2010.

Jeffrey W. Schwartz

2008 - present

Adjunct Instructor in Mathematics

B.A., Messiah College, 1992;

M.S., Shippensburg University, 2002

Linda Taylor

2002 - present

Adjunct Instructor in Mathematics

Mrs. Taylor graduated from Messiah with a B.A. in Computer Science.  She served with Operation Mobilization for 3 years in Nepal, India and Pakistan.  Returning home, Lin worked as a programmer analyst for 7 years and then became a stay at home mom.  She has taught at Messiah as an adjunct since 2002.  Lin lives with husband, Joe, daughter, Erin, and son, Ben on a small farm north of Harrisburg. They attend Harrisburg BIC, where they are on worship teams, and Lin is a trustee and Joe is a deacon.