Lycoming College will welcome author Zara Chowdhary to its third annual Lycoming College Undergraduate Research Conference for a reading from her debut memoir, “The Lucky Ones.” The event is slated for Saturday, April 5, at 5 p.m. in the Trogner Presentation Room in Krapf Gateway center on the Lycoming campus. The event is open to the public and free of charge.
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Lycoming College will host visiting scholar, author, and philosophy professor Bob Fischer, Ph.D., for a talk entitled, “Comparing Pain Across Species,” on Wednesday, March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Humanities Research Center (HRC). The talk, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the HRC in partnership with the departments of philosophy and biology.
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Lycoming College released the second volume of its Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Research (MHR), featuring fifteen essays from undergraduate students from the mid-Atlantic region, including three from Lycoming College. The annual publication is available in both print and on the Lycoming website.
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Recent Lycoming College graduate Dominick Philip ’24 of Nazareth, Pa., was named to the prestigious class of 2024-25 Fulbright honorees. A recipient of the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award, he will travel to Hamburg, Germany, to teach English to, and to share American culture with German students at the secondary education level. Philip, an economics-philosophy-comparative literature triple major with a minor in German, also graduated as a Lycoming Scholar.
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More than 100 attendees from 24 colleges and universities joined Lycoming College’s second annual Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on April 6 on the Lycoming campus to celebrate the region’s bright minds who are dedicated to furthering the humanities through high-level research.
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Fulfilling the requirements of a $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the Humanities Research Center, Lycoming College today launched the Lycoming College History Podcast Series. The podcasts serve the dual purpose of functioning as one component of a larger strategy to digitally preserve the institution’s 200+ year history, as well as providing research experiences for student interns as they prepare to embark on careers or graduate studies.
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Due to unforseen circumstances, this keynote address has been cancelled.
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Kathryn Palmer writes: Lycoming College is providing more research and experiential learning opportunities for students in hopes of setting itself apart in a tough enrollment environment.
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A $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of Lycoming College’s Humanities Research Center (HRC) has enabled student interns to spend the summer months working collaboratively with faculty members to develop a digital history of the College.
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In a signing ceremony on April 17, Lycoming College and Widener University Commonwealth Law School announced a 3+3 law degree program that will provide Lycoming College students the opportunity to earn both a bachelor’s degree and a juris doctorate degree in just six years. Instrumental in the partnership between both institutions, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice P. Kevin Brobson ’92, graduate of Lycoming College and of Widener Law Commonwealth, was in attendance at the signing ceremony.
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Lycoming College concluded its inaugural Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference this weekend after presenting awards to six students for their dedication to excellence in research. More than 100 conference goers representing 24 institutions of higher education from across the region and beyond participated in the event, attended student presentations, a keynote address, and enjoyed lunch together, all while helping to bridge the gap between their status as students and their futures as professionals in their fields.
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Lycoming College will welcome published author and expert on American history Robert Parkinson, Ph.D., as keynote speaker for its inaugural Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference, with a talk entitled “Making Thirteen Clocks Strike as One: Race, Fear, and the American Founding.” Parkinson’s lecture will be held on Saturday, April 1, at 5 p.m., in the Trogner Presentation Room of the Krapf Gateway Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR MARCH 9, 7:30 P.M.
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Lycoming College welcomes Gregg D. Caruso, Ph.D., professor of philosophy at SUNY Corning, visiting fellow at the New College of the Humanities (NCH London), and honorary professor of philosophy at Macquarie University. Caruso’s presentation, “Rejecting Retributivism: Free Will, Punishment, and Criminal Justice,” will take place Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. in room D-001 of the Academic Center. The event is sponsored by the department of philosophy and the department of criminal justice and criminology. The event is free and open to the public.
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