Melissa Hardin, Assistant Dean for International Studies, is the recipient of a Fulbright award to travel to Japan. Additionally, she was invited to chair a study abroad program review. Read More
Director of Career Services Carla Rinde is the recipient of a 2012 Fulbright International Education Administrators grant, for which she will travel to Germany. Hers is one of 20 awards given to applicants annually from across the country. Read More
This semester the Business and Economics Department has been bolstered by Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Sraboni Dutta, Ph.D, who is an Assistant Professor in Management at the Birla Institute of Technology in Kolkata, India. Read More
Many students land nicknames while at Ursinus that last for the rest of their lives. Some stem from monikers picked up on the playing fields, while others come from the freshman dorms or Greek Life. But 2011 graduate Martina Dzuna owes her sobriquet, Wunderkind, to the classroom. Read More
Joshua Solomon 2008 majored in East Asian Studies with a minor in Japanese and Music. He is studying at the University of Chicago, where he is finishing the second year of a Ph.D. program. After graduating from Ursinus, Solomon left on a yearlong Fulbright Fellowship to Tsugaru, Japan. His research topic was Tsugaru-jamisen, a kind of three-stringed banjo, and the community of people who play it. Read More
Ursinus seniors Ashley Green and Martina Dzuna have both received Fulbright awards that will allow them to explore international cultures and further their academic study. The prestigious Fulbright program distributes just 1,600 awards to U.S. students annually. Read More
Ursinus Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Carlin Romano has been named Chair of the Jury for the 2011 “J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award,” which is jointly administered by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard and Columbia University. The $30,000 prize goes to the author of a nonfiction book already underway and contracted for by a publisher, that exhibits the literary excellence and concern for social justice exemplified by J. Anthony Lukas (1933-97), the Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times journalist and author. Read More
A political science scholar from Mauritania, currently the Fulbright Visiting Scholar at University of Florida’s Center for African Studies, will speak on the Ursinus College campus Feb. 3 in the Wismer Parents’ Lounge, at 3 p.m. Read More
Joshua Solomon 2008 is a graduate student at The University of Chicago’s East Asian Literatures and Civilizations Program. After graduation from Ursinus, Solomon was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study the history of a Japanese instrument called a Tsugaru-jamisen. He describes it as, “a kind of three-stringed Japanese banjo. Read More
Amber Lee Spurka graduated from Ursinus College with a bachelor of arts degree in Spanish, cum laude, with minors in psychology and elementary education, departmental honors in Spanish and K-12 teaching certification during commencement exercises on Saturday, May 15, on the college campus. More than 340 students received bachelor’s degrees. Read More