Ambassador (Ret.) Joseph H. Melrose Jr. recently spoke with 150 students at Conrad Weiser High School in Berks County, Pa., about his career as a foreign diplomat. Read More
Roger Lee Dance Company gave Ursinus audiences a glimpse of his Philadelphia concert , Roger Lee Dance Take 2. The Ursinus performance featured dancers Royale Randolph 2013, Katie Greco 2012, Chrysta Brown, and vocalist Davis Howley 2011. Read More
Awet Eyob fled his Eritrean homeland in 2010 in hopes of pursuing a dream to earn a college degree in the United States. Read More
When Roger Lee, a 2010 graduate of Ursinus College, started college, he spoke of his longstanding dream of founding a dance company. Last spring, he realized his goal when Roger Lee Dance premiered. Read More
Several events are planned during Black History Month at Ursinus College. All events are free and open to the public. Read More
Norristown area elementary school students will be treated to the annual Holiday Extravaganza at Ursinus College as part of the America Reads and ACLAMO tutoring programs Dec. 6 in Wismer Lower Lounge. Read More
Kevin Amuquandoh 2013 and Rodolfo Coplin 2013 posed with a group of students from around the country after presenting their respective neuroscience research projects at the Annual Minority Access Conference in Orlando, Florida. and again at the Society for Neuroscience Conference in New Orleans, LA. Read More
Junior Codey Young, a philosophy and sociology major at Ursinus, cares deeply. He cares about his community, social and civil rights issues, and equal educational opportunities for all. Read More
For Codey Young, a sophomore Sociology and Philosophy double major, a spring break trip to civil rights sites in Alabama brought him back to a W.E.B. Dubois quote engraved on the Strassburger Commons near the Kaleidoscope: “Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental.” Read More
An eclectic mix of performances, lectures, presentations and discussions marked Black History Month at Ursinus College. Programs included a talk by 2009 Ursinus graduate Jennifer Thompkins, who received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard; a talk by Biology Professor Rebecca Roberts, on “environmental racism;” Read More