
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bucknell Student DJ Forms Connections Through Music
Growing up, Karah James '21 fell in love with music, including a genre called soca from her father's native Trinidad, where the energetic sounds are the backdrop to dances at parties and Carnival.

Cool Classes: Observational Astrophysics
On a clear night, the stars above Bucknell's campus shine brightly enough to make anyone marvel, but they're especially awe-inspiring for students in the observational astrophysics class taught by Professor Katelyn Allers, physics & astronomy.

Management Course Challenges Students to Create Websites for Real Clients
Sam Blount '20 had never built a website before she and a team of fellow students tackled that task in a class — on behalf of a real client.

Cool Classes: Materials Science
To make great stuff, sometimes you have to break stuff. UNIV 264, a course in materials science taught by Professor Tim Raymond, chemical engineering, takes this maxim to the extreme.

A Year of Achievement, Expansion and Exploration
It's been a year of big announcements and even bigger achievements for Bucknell University.

Bucknell Students Roll Out Project to Benefit Area Residents in Need of Transportation
Brock Hower '20, Abby Iaconis '20 and Jackson McCune '20 could have written final papers to fulfill the requirements of their Global Supply Chain Management course.


