Deborah Barkun, Assistant Professor of Art History, is the recipient of the Society of Photographic Education’s 2014 Award for Excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing. Read More
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Student Essay on Medieval Law to be Published
An essay by recent graduate Katherine Pierpont on the variety of late medieval laws governing prostitution will be published in Proto: An Undergraduate Humanities Journal in 2014. Pierpont, a double major in History and English, started the research for a History course called Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe last fall. Read More
Students Create Winning U-Innovate Logo/Slogan
Sophomores Kevin Rivera and Kristin McGillis were named the winners in the U-Innovate! Logo and Slogan Contest, taking home $250 each. Forty-two students submitted more than 100 slogans and 45 logos for consideration. Read More
Visiting Creative Writer Wins Poetry Prize
Visiting Creative Writer Anna Maria Hong was awarded the Frederick Bock Prize by the Poetry Foundation of Chicago, which publishes Poetry magazine, for her poems “Pluralisms” and “A Fable” in the April 2013 issue. Read More
Six Students Present History Research at Conference, One Wins Prize
Six Ursinus students presented their independent research in history at the Phi Alpha Theta Pennsylvania East regional conference at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, Pa., on April 13, 2013. Read More
Victim Services Center Gives Ursinus Leadership Award
Ursinus College received the Leadership Award from the Montgomery County Victim Services Center (VSC) on March 24 in recognition of support received from Ursinus students, who have been a community partner to VSC for many years. Read More
Ursinus Earns Place on National Honor Roll for Service
Ursinus College was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. Read More
Junior Wins Global Scholarship
Junior Kendal Conrad is a recipient of the Womenetics Advancing Aspirations Global Scholarship. The $1,500 monetary prize was awarded for an essay Conrad wrote on gender stereotypes in children’s media. Read More
Service Honor for UC Football Player
Ursinus College senior football player wide receiver Tony Rosa (Philadelphia, Pa./Central) was one of 22 players across the country, and across all divisions to be named to the 2012 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team on Tuesday afternoon. Read More
Dr. Lyczak Honored with the Award for Outstanding Research
Dr. Rebecca Lyczak was honored with the Laughlin Award for Outstanding Research at the 2012 commencement of Ursinus College. Her research focuses on early development in C. elegans, the nematode worm that has proven to be so useful in elucidating genetics and genetic disorders, including in humans. Read More