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Campus News
- Professor, author honored with NEA Fellowship
Robert Rosenberg, assistant professor of English at Bucknell University, has been awarded a 2010 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Bucknell 22nd 'Best Place to Work'
The Best Places to Work program has ranked Bucknell the 22nd best employer in Pennsylvania. Only one other nonprofit institution scored higher than Bucknell.
- Professors receive inaugural faculty scholar award
Two Bucknell University professors -- Andrea R. Halpern and Virginia Zimmerman -- have been honored for their research and scholarship with the inaugural David T. Scadden Faculty Scholar Award.
- Math professor completes Fulbright in Uruguay
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Nathan Ryan, a computational number theorist, traveled to Uruguay this past fall with a Fulbright fellowship.
- Bucknell awarded $250,000 Conservation Works! grant
Bucknell University has been awarded a $250,000 Conservation Works! grant to replace the air-handling and monitoring system for the Elaine Langone Center dining facilities. The improvements are expected to create an annual energy savings of $100,000 for Bucknell.
- Student author discusses 'true liberal arts education'
Li Wan, Class of '10, has co-authored a book with two other Chinese students attending top liberal arts institutions in the United States.
- Holzberger receives Cohen Award for Santayana edition
William Holzberger, professor emeritus of English at Bucknell , has been honored by the MLA with the 10th Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters, receiving the award for The Letters of George Santayana, Book Seven, 1941-1947 and Book Eight, 1948-1052, published by MIT Press.
- Top stories: Profiles among November's top stories
For the third straight month, a three-part story package profiling recently promoted full and associate professors and newly hired tenure-track faculty was Bucknell University's top web story of the month.
- Get Bucknell in the News for media highlights
You can read the highlights of media coverage each week in Bucknell in the News, a free weekly e-newsletter produced by the Division of Communications
- Professors receive National Geographic, NSF grants for Mars, Alaska research
Professors Craig Kochel and Jeff Trop recently received a $15,000 National Geographic grant to continue their research in Alaska and its geological similarities to Mars.
- SBDC eBay workshop rescheduled
The Bucknell University SBDC will offer the workshop, "eBay Basic for the New eBay User," on Wednesday, Dec. 16, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the SBDC Business Education Center in Lewisburg. [This workshop, originally scheduled for Dec. 9, was postponed due to winter weather.]
- Paper Bag Players star in annual Weis Center holiday show
The Paper Bag Players will present "The Great Mummy Adventure" on Dec. 12 at 1 p.m. in the Weis Center at Bucknell. Admission is free to the community through the generosity of Janet Weis.
- 'Gizmo Expo' to showcase grade-school teaching tools
Bucknell University will host the fourth annual Engineering and Science Education 'Gizmo Expo' on Dec. 7 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Larison Dining Hall. Student teams will share inquiry-based teaching units and gizmos designed to teach science and engineering concepts to students in kindergarten to eighth grade.
- Solas presents 'A Celtic Solstice Celebration' at Weis Center
The Celtic band Solas will present "A Celtic Solstice Celebration" on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m. in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University. Tickets are $25.
- Bucknell Dance Company concert features original choreography
The Bucknell Dance Company will present its annual fall concert with original choreography by faculty, students and a guest artist on Dec. 4 and Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in the Powers Theatre.
- Tim Warfield presents holiday jazz concert
Bucknell University's Jazz at Bucknell First Wednesday series will present "A Holiday Jazz Concert" with saxophonist Tim Warfield on Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 8:30 p.m. in Bucknell Hall.
- Students fare well in 'Battle of the Brains’
A team of Bucknell University computer science students competing in a regional "Battle of the Brains" competition finished with bragging rights.
- Magical soccer season ends in Virginia
The Bucknell men's soccer team's record-setting campaign came to an end on Sunday afternoon Klockner Stadium, as No. 2 Virginia scored four times in the first half and went on to post a 5-0 victory in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
- Bucknell in national top 10 student-athlete grad rates
Continuing a long-standing tradition of success in the NCAA's annual graduation rates survey, released Wednesday, Bucknell's four-class average for student-athletes entering between 1999-2000 and 2002-03 ranks eighth nationally.
- 'US Future States Atlas' imagines imperial march
What might a new world atlas look like if the United States multiplied?
- Confocal microscope assists biology, biomed study
A new, laser-scanning confocal microscope, purchased with a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, will provide higher resolution images for faculty and student researchers.
- 'In Media Res' addresses race, gender, pop culture
Notable scholars, poets, musicians and actors gathered at Bucknell University for "In Media Res," a symposium exploring scholarship on race, gender, media and popular culture.
- Community college scholars overcome odds
Bucknell is among eight national institutions that partner with the Jack Kent Cooke foundation and five community colleges to offer exceptional students need-based scholarships to pursue four-year degrees.
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