An Ursinus College faculty member is the recipient of a $331,655 National Institutes of Health grant to continue his research with prions, which are misfolded proteins connected to several neurodegenerative human diseases.
Science and policy will converge at Ursinus College April 11 and 12 at the Institute on Science for Global Policy (ISGP) conference on Emerging and Persistent infectious Diseases: Focus on Pandemic Preparedness. At the conference, scientists will clarify scientific and technical understanding for those who are charged with, or who directly influence policy decisions.
U-Innovate! awards prizes and mentorship to a winning student team in an initiative that encourages entrepreneurial mindsets for students in any major.
The legacy of dynamic urban school reformer Marcus Foster is a message of how education and community need to work together. Foster, superintendent of the Oakland, Calif., schools in the early 1970s, and a product of Philadelphia schools as a student, teacher, principal, and administrator, was assassinated Nov. 6, 1973 by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The book, "In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform" (University of Pennsylvania Press 2012) by John P. Spencer, associate professor of education at Ursinus College, brings to light Foster’s achievements and relates them to current issues in school reform.
The Ursinus College Summer Fellows Program offers students a change to do concentrated research with a faculty mentor, and students are finding it is an entirely different experience than the academic year.
Summer on the Ursinus College campus offers students an opportunity to work one on one with a faculty mentor on a focused research project. The Ursinus Summer Fellows program is in its 10th year, with more student participation each year. Students present their research in a public symposium July 28.
The Kaleidoscope, a new performing arts center opening at Ursinus College, was designed with students in mind. A theater consultant comments on what works for campus theaters.
What is the role of an art museum on campus? Lisa Hanover, director of the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, and president of the Association of College and University Museums, notes that they play a dual role. This semester, a Japanese prints exhibit at Ursinus complements academic interest on campus in East Asian Studies.
The Snell Shillingford Women's Coaching Symposium, to be held at Ursinus College Jan. 21-23, is a grassroots way of addressing a lingering problem: the shortage of female coaches despite the increases in opportunities for women in athletics since the advent of Title IX.
Internships abroad are becoming a standard piece of many Study Abroad programs, enhancing immersion into a foreign culture and add to a student's marketability when job-hunting.
Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Member of the Faculty of Divinity School at Harvard University, will be the commencement speaker on May 15, 2004.
An art museum on campus affords creative opportunities for students. Two students are the curators of an exhibition of pieces from the permanent collection, at the college's Berman Museum of Art through April 9.
Digital photographs of some of the works in the exhibit are available by contacting Ursinus College.
Ursinus College greets a large class of first-years with a taste of what it means to belong to an academic community. Students will jump into a class during the first full day of orientation and will discuss the book they all read over the summer.
Summer on campus is sometimes a time for special projects. Ursinus College offers stipends to allow selected students to do an in-depth research project and work one-on-one with a faculty mentor. The research is presented at the end of the eight-week program.
Urban elementary school students "adopt" works of art in a program with a college art museum to learn about museums in society and art in their own lives.
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan will be the commencement speaker at Ursinus College Saturday May 17. She will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and plans to meet with Jordanian students at Ursinus.
Although participation by women on athletic teams has skyrocketed since Title IX, the number of females coaching those teams has not kept pace. The holder of the Snell Chair at Ursinus College, is trying to change the dismal statistics.
Faculty, deans and presidents from 33 colleges will gather at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania this weekend to work with other academics, architects and planners on ideas for renovating or building new science and math facilities on their own campuses.
Antonio Mora, news anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," will speak at the 128th Ursinus College Commencement at 10 a.m., Saturday, May 19, on the front lawn of campus. The ceremony will be held outdoors, rain or shine.
One year after she launched the Snell women's coaching project at Ursinus College, Jen Shillingford is starting to see the ripple effect of her efforts--her ideas are catching on.
Ursinus students will have a close brush with the High Italian Renaissance, as a New York painter recreates his own version of Raphael's famous masterpiece, "The School of Athens," using Ursinus students, faculty, the college's dean and president as models.
Ursinus College has joined the ranks of the nation's "most wired" colleges this year, with all new students scheduled to receive laptop computers when they arrive on campus in three weeks.
The job market has never been better for liberal arts graduates. The vast majority of liberal arts graduates are "ordering" the fries, not serving them, and Ursinus College graduates are a case in point.
Benjamin S. Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon and author, advised the Ursinus Class of 2000 that success is about using your God-given talents, developing them to the extent that you lift up and become valuable to the people around you.
An Ursinus College senior history major never expected her honors research on the history of the American birth control pill to uncover a potential threat to women's health: young women in the 15-24 age range who have never been pregnant are both most at-risk for breast cancer and most likely to use the pill.
Neurosurgeon Benjamin S. Carson, a once-troubled youth who is now director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and author of such inspirational books as "Gifted Hands," will speak at Ursinus College Commencement on May 13.
Jen Shillingford, Chair of Health and Physical Education at Ursinus, is hoping to create a ripple effect that will bring a new wave of female coaches into the world of girls' and women's sports.
"The Transforming Power of Art," a symposium, will be held at Ursinus College Oct. 20 from 3 to 5 p.m., in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Ursinus' Berman Museum of Art. Keynote speaker will be J. Carter Brown, director emeritus of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Brian Lamb, president and on-air host of C-SPAN, will be the speaker at the Ursinus College Commencement at 10 a.m., Saturday May 15, on the front lawn of the campus.