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Bucknell Study: College Counseling Website LGBTQ+ ‘Friendliness’ Relates to State’s Hate Crime, Nondiscrimination Protections
The study analyzing more than 212 college counseling center websites was published in the Journal of College Counseling.

Bucknell Student Vocal Group Beyond Unison Opens Rockettes’ Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular
A cappella student group opened the Saturday, Nov. 20, 5 p.m. show.

Sarah Haber ’22, French and Comparative & Digital Humanities
For Sarah Haber '22, the comparative & digital humanities major has given her unrivaled access to professors, immersive interactive experiences and a marketable set of skills that will impress future employers.

Bucknell Professor, Students Part of NSF Award to Search for Dark Matter
$245,750 award empowers Bucknell and two other undergraduate institutions to search for dark matter through atomic magnetometer networks.

Quentin Andrews ’24, Economics and English
Quentin Andrews '24, an economics and English double-major from Washington, D.C., is analyzing the trove of plays, documentaries and texts that emerged from Black Arts Movement of the '60s and '70s.

Paris Gallagher ’23, Religious Studies and Political Science
The deeper Paris Gallagher '23 digs into her religious studies major, the more connections she finds to diverse disciplines across Bucknell's College of Arts & Sciences.

Colleen Hull ’22, Spanish and Managing for Sustainability
Colleen Hull '22's experience in both of her majors — Spanish and managing for sustainability — has been defined by a closeness with fellow students and professors that goes far deeper than classwork.

Ian Herdt ’22, Computer Science
Ian Herdt '22, a computer science major from Mount Airy, Md., is designing software that will use artificial intelligence to write snippets of music, potentially helping songwriters overcome writer's block.

Peace-building Grant Funds Bucknellian’s Homegrown Economic Development Program
With the help of a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace, Chanzé Ashsan '22 developed an entrepreneurial training program to combat economic insecurity in her home country of Pakistan.

Angelica Crisi ’01, Sociology
Angelica Crisi '01 uses the lessons she learned in Bucknell sociology courses and the corner office to help businesses enhance diversity, equity and inclusion.

Organization and Creativity: Bucknell Opens Holmes Hall
The new building, named to honor commitments from Steve '79 and Bonnie Bencsko Holmes '79, offers modern, technology-rich spaces for the Freeman College of Management and Department of Art & Art History.

Bucknell Awarded NSF Grant to Study Faculty Gender, Race, Ethnicity Barriers
The $271,000 award will fund a two-year self-assessment to identify systemic inequities and advancement barriers among faculty.

Brian Stolarz ’95, Political Science and English
Brian Stolarz '95's decade-long journey to exonerate a death-row inmate is one of the remarkable true stories featured in a Netflix docuseries on criminal justice.

Bucknell's Williams Plans #BlackBotanistsWeek2021, Wins Peter Raven Award for Plant Science Outreach
Five Bucknell students also will receive national plant sciences awards at this week’s Annual Botany Conference.

Boati Motau ’25, Biology
After representing South Africa in the Tokyo Olympics, seasoned water polo player Boati Motau '25 brings her winning skills — and pre-med ambitions — to Bucknell.

Hiram Smith, Spanish
Professor Hiram Smith, Spanish, utilizes historical and social context to help his students gain a broader perspective on language and linguistics.

Jacob Feuerstein ’22 Named a 2021 Key Into Public Service Scholar
The Phi Beta Kappa Society program connects arts and sciences students with Phi Beta Kappa scholarship and public sector opportunities

Aries Contreras ’22, Psychology
Aries Contreras '22, a Bucknell Community College Scholar and psychology major from Whitehall, Pa., has won a Beinecke Scholarship to support her goal of earning a Ph.D. in social psychology.

Manya Saaraswat ’19, Biology
Biology major and aspiring doctor Manya Saaraswat '19 uses the beauty pageant stage to advocate for equity in children's health care worldwide.

Banks Publishes Book on Sadie Alexander, First Black American to Earn Economics Ph.D.
The book documents the speeches and writings of the civil rights activist and will be released June 15 — the 100th anniversary of Alexander receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.