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Bucknell to Begin Test-Optional Admission Policy
Standardized test scores (SAT or ACT) will now be optional for students to submit when applying to Bucknell University starting with the class applying for enrollment in fall 2020.
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Inside Innovation: Senior Design Team Engineers App with Johnson & Johnson
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Solving for Industry: Bucknell’s New Math
As consultants, Bucknell students in small teams apply the math they know — ranging from machine learning and network theory to operations research — to develop real solutions to real challenges out in the community.
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Division I Double Take
Identical twins Alex '21 and Robert Dessoye '21 both chose Bucknell to study biology and run Division I track & field, but since arriving on campus they've also explored new interests and pursued passions that are anything but identical.
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London Calling: Bucknell Students Live Like Locals During Semester Abroad
In the Bucknell in London program, students from across the University take a semester of humanities and social science courses taught by Bucknell faculty and specially tailored to the location.
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Cool Classes: Museums, Galleries, Curators
In this art history course, students develop the skills used by art administrators, educators, conservators, curators and fundraisers.
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Bucknell in the Caribbean Reveals Complexity of Island Paradise
Students in this three-week summer program are immersed in the culture and rich history of the islands of Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis.
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Bucknell Students Pilot Mentorship Program with Alumni at Goldman Sachs
The program matches alumni and parent employees with incoming students from the Freeman College as well as the College of Arts & Sciences and the College of Engineering.
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Bucknell Chemical Engineering Majors Win Big at National Conference
A delegation of 32 Bucknell students headed to Pittsburgh for the American Institute of Chemical Engineering National Student Conference. You might say they swept the competition.
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Freeman College Students Reflect on a Global Management Trip to Poland
Sixteen senior Freeman College of Management students toured the historic cities of Warsaw and Krakow, sampled traditional Polish and Jewish cuisine, and learned about Polish business trends during a weeklong excursion to Poland.
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Cool Classes: Environmental Humanities
This course starts not in the classroom but outside, in Bucknell's Grove — a stand of trees as old as the University itself — in a perfect introduction to a new field of inquiry, the 'environmental humanities.'
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Bucknell Students Journey Through Costa Rica for Hands-on Sustainability Studies
Bucknell University's new three-week Integrated Perspectives course took students to Costa Rica to focus on sustainable technology and management.
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Bucknell Trustees Approve New Management and Art Building
Bucknell University's Board of Trustees has approved construction of a new management and art building, setting the stage for the next phase in the Kenneth W. Freeman College of Management's evolution and deepening the interdisciplinary collaborations that distinguish a Bucknell education.
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Cool Classes: Manufacturing Processes
Most college mechanical engineering programs teach students to sketch products using computer-aided design software. Not every program asks students to then cast those products in molten metal, roiling at more than 2,000 degrees Celsius, but that's exactly what Bucknell mechanical engineering major Brishti Mandal '20 found herself doing on a Monday afternoon last semester.
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Cool Classes: Comedy & Satire Workshop
We have so many talented, funny students at Bucknell, and over the years I've taught students from theatre, improv and stand-up groups who naturally wrote in a comic mode.
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Hands-on Experiences Help Electrical & Computer Engineering Majors Find the Art in Engineering
It was on an October afternoon in her junior year when Hayley Reiner '20 first experienced the art in engineering.
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Madeleine Albright is Bucknell’s 2019 Commencement Speaker
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright — a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 2012 — will deliver the keynote address at Bucknell University's 169th Commencement on Sunday, May 19.
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Cool Classes: Art of Chinese Water Sleeve
With precision and grace, a group of young women leap, twirl and glide in unison across the studio floor. They swoop through a flowing dance designed to mimic the movement of water, yards of white silk streaming from the sleeves of their jackets.
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Service-Learning Trip Teams Bucknell Students With South African Nonprofits
Many American travelers would consider visiting South Africa a wonderful opportunity, if only to see iconic sights like Table Mountain. For students who join the Bucknell in South Africa service-learning trip, that experience is deepened by the chance to work with social services agencies in Cape Town.
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Cool Classes: General Chemistry
When Quinn Grossman '19 steps into his General Chemistry lab, he knows exactly what he needs to do. That's because the neuroscience major from Sewell, N.J., has been there before — not in real life, but in virtual reality.