The Mercury in Pottstown Oct. 23 featured a live, online Q & A with Joel Bish, associate professor of psychology and chair of the Neuroscience Department, and his student, Charles Lee. Lee and Bish are collaborating on research on concussions. Read More
The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Vice President for Enrollment Richard DiFeliciantonio in its Oct. 21 article on glitches in the common application. Read More
The announcement that The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation has given Ursinus College more than 1,300 works of art was followed in the art media: Read More
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has included Ursinus College on its list of the country’s best values in private colleges. Kiplinger’s annual list ranks 100 private universities and 100 liberal arts colleges. Read More
The Council for Undergraduate Research has featured the Ursinus FUTURE program, which brings students from groups less likely to pursue careers in the sciences into laboratories before they start college or at the end of their first year. Read More
Recent major gifts to Ursinus College were the topic of a story in the Oct. 15 Pottstown Mercury. The story was the subject of several tweets, including Colleges that Change Lives, @CTCLColleges, and The Mercury, @MercuryX .
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Carlin Romano reports from the 18th conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) conference this summer, Chinese Philosophy and the Way of Living, and notes its ascent in the U.S. Read More
President Fong assesses the state of higher education in China, and reports on his recent trip to introduce the liberal arts in his Huffington Post blog. At a time when the U.S. is devaluing the liberal arts, China is coming to appreciate its value.
Professor of Chemistry Mark Ellison’s research with scientists from the Massachusetts Instittute of Technology and Seoul University in Korea has been featured in various scientific publications. Read More
The U.S. News and World Report 2014 rankings place Ursinus, once again, as an Up and Coming school. Ursinus is tied for second place with Hendrix College, Roanoke College and University of Richmond, in a five-school list that is topped by Berry College. Ursinus is no stranger to the Up and Coming School list, having been named to this prestigious list in 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009. Read More