November 20, 2024
Performance has taken hundreds of forms across hundreds of years, and one of its most interesting forms is wrestling. Is wrestling real or fake? Are professional wrestlers like The Undertaker and Charlotte Flair actors? Why do masked luchadores never reveal their faces? For the 2024 fall semester, incoming first-year students were offered the first-year seminar “Theatre Professional Wrestling.” Led by Matt Ripa, M.F.A., visiting assistant professor of theatre, the class isn’t just answering these questions, but seeing them answered live.
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November 15, 2024
Carrying the Lycoming College Art Gallery through the holidays will be the College’s 2024-25 Art Faculty Show, opening on Friday Dec. 6 with a gallery talk at 5:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public and will run through Feb. 7. The annual show will feature the works of the following faculty artists:
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November 12, 2024
Joining the ranks of Pennsylvania research institutions including Carnegie Mellon and Lehigh University, Lycoming College today announced it is the recipient of a five-year NASA Space Grant award that will enable the institution to host 15 astronomy research interns over its duration. The College is committing to this on-campus, NASA-funded research by matching the award for a total investment of $70,000 in astronomy student research opportunities.
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November 6, 2024
As Lycoming County high school students begin to register for spring semester classes at Lycoming College through Early Warrior Dual Enrollment, the program is getting a $20,000 contribution from C&N.
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October 31, 2024
Please note this event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.
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October 29, 2024
Visiting Scholar, archaeologist, and museum professional James Doyle, Ph.D., will deliver a talk entitled, “Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art,” on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 4:30 p.m., in the Humanities Research Center on the Lycoming College campus. The lecture is a free event and is open to members of the public.
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October 28, 2024
The George I. Alden Trust granted Lycoming College $150,000 for updated instrumentation in the Detwiler Planetarium including a new projection system, software, and increased computing power. This is the sixth grant awarded to Lycoming by the Alden Trust since 2005, bringing a total of $710,000 in support.
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October 25, 2024
Registrations are underway for the Lycoming College Warrior Spirit Open House on Saturday, Nov. 16. Space for this very special event is limited and college-bound students interested in finding their best college fit should register now.
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October 23, 2024
Lycoming College will open its 2024-25 theatre season with the “E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-I-N-G” and “D-E-L-I-G-H-T-F-U-L” musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” The production will take place at the Mary L. Welch Theatre, Nov. 13-16, with all shows beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available to purchase beginning Wednesday, Oct. 23, at http://www.bigtickets.com/events/lycoming-college.
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October 21, 2024
Well-known Colombian poet Felipe García Quintero will present his work during a bilingual public lecture and reading on Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m., in the Lycoming College Humanities Research Center (HRC). Simultaneous interpretation will be provided by Gerardo Luna, Spanish language assistant at Lycoming. The event is free and open to the public.
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October 19, 2024
Chase Bottorf speaks to Lycoming College faculty and trustees, as well as Kent Trachte himself about the president's retirement.
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October 14, 2024
As part of Hispanic Heritage Month, Maybel Mesa Morales, Ph.D., assistant professor of Spanish at Lycoming College, decided to get her students out of the classroom and into the College’s downtown Williamsport art gallery. The Spanish 426 class observed Sarah Blood’s “Now is the Time” exhibition, which explored themes such as isolation, power structures, and inequality through innovative uses of light and space, aligning perfectly with the Latin American socio-political issues the class has been discussing.
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October 9, 2024
The Lycoming College Board of Trustees today announced the next phase of a national search for its 16th president. With the newly-launched position profile posted to the presidential search website, Academic Search will now solicit and accept applications for the Lycoming College presidency. Today’s news follows the Sept. 9 announcement that after 12 years of exemplary and dedicated service, Kent Trachte, the 15th president of Lycoming College, will retire in June 2025.
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October 2, 2024
"Two teachers at Lycoming College in Williamsport are pioneering change on campus by using their Hispanic heritage to teach students about culture and history." Watch the segment.
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