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Professor Receives Prestigious NSF Grant
Akshaye Dhawan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, was awarded a curriculum initiative grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the IEEE Technical Committee of Parallel Processing...
View ArticleSummer Fellow Accepted to International Conference
The 6th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices has accepted a proposal by senior Sam Snodgrass of Taylor, Pa., and his faculty mentor April Kontostathis, as a result of a Summer...
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Computer Science Major Wins National Honor
Computer Science major Sam Snodgrass won the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Scholarship Award for 2011. This is the second year in a row that an Ursinus student has won an award from the International Honor...
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Faculty Good News
Accomplishments by Ursinus College faculty members are noted regularly in “Faculty Good News.” This week, Dr. Roberts was interviewed by ABC News and testified in Harrisburg; Dr. Hemphill has been...
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Dance Majors Partner with Math and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Two Ursinus students are among the many electing to double major and have combined Dance with Mathematics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. They are exploring these seemingly very different...
View ArticleMath student’s paper accepted for research conference
Senior Karissa Smith has learned that her paper from summer research was accepted for presentation. Also, she was awarded funding from the National Institute for Mathematical & Biological Synthesis...
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A professor was published in Physician’s News Digest, another in Psychology Today ‘s blogs, and another was heard on the radio. An art exhibition was reviewed, and a music professor was commissioned to...
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Faculty Good News; Student Good News
Environmental Studies professor co-authors a winning paper; Math professor’s paper co-authored with students accepted for publication; History professor presents paper; Theater professor blogs for...
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Faculty and Student News
A History Professor will offer a lecture as a Visiting Scholar; another History professor and student attended a conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies; Dr. Hardin was selected to attend a...
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Greg Martell Named ECAC Defensive Player of the Year
Football has captivated Greg Martell since he was a fourth-grader playing for Saint Michael’s Giants in Levittown. For the Ursinus football captain, the uncompromising physical demands and rigors of...
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Calculus: The Musical! On the Marquee at Ursinus
Calculus: The Musical! comes to Ursinus March 25, 2014 at 7 p.m. in the Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center’s Lenfest Theater. The musical is from the Matheatre, which was created in 2006 when Marc...
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Math for Liberal Arts Poster Presentation
For Math 100, a class that focuses on students who do not major in a science, Mathematics and Computer Science Instructor Rosemarie Wait tries to “incorporate a little something from each student’s...
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Computer Science Professor Invited to Conference
Akshaye Dhawan, assistant professor in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, wrote a paper reporting curriculum work which has been accepted to the 26th IEEE International Parallel &...
View ArticleMath Professor Published in MAA Journal
Nicholas Scoville’s article, “Georg Cantor at the Dawn of Point-Set Topology” has been accepted and published in the Mathematical Association of America’s online journal Loci: Convergence. Dr....
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Interdisciplinary Science Center Launches through Competitive Grant
Ursinus College will establish a Center for Science and the Common Good, connecting science and civic engagement, with an $800,000 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). UPDATE: Fall...
View ArticleHHMI Grant and Science Center Noted in the Media
An Associated Press story features eight Pennsylvania colleges which were awarded grants as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s $50 million national science initiative, the most schools for...
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Student Receives Prestigious Kemper Scholarship
David Martin, a rising sophomore from Selinsgrove, Pa., has been selected from a group of finalists for the incoming class of the Kemper Scholars Program. “It is an honor to be representing Ursinus in...
View ArticleNew Math Professor Accepted to Math Research Communities
Kevin McGown, new faculty in the Mathematics and Computer Science Department, has been accepted to the Mathematics Research Communities (MRC), a program of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and...
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Center for Science and the Common Good Sets Opening Speaker
Ursinus College has taken the bold step of creating a program with the goal of producing citizen-scientists who can confront the ethical implications of their work — scientists for the 21st Century...
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Kristin Hanratty wins Pre-Teaching Award
Senior Kristin Hanratty has always loved math, but it wasn’t until her freshman year of college that she decided she wanted to take on a career teaching middle school students. “I want to change...
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‘Soap Films and Time Machines’ Subject of Oct. 23 Talk
The topic is “Soap Films and Time Machines” as the Mathematics and Computer Science Speakers Series presents Professor Ken Brakke Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. in Musser auditorium in Pfahler Hall. Mathematics...
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DeSimone Opens Entrepreneurship and Innovation Series
Supporting the goal of educating confident yet compassionate graduates who demonstrate excellence and leadership, Ursinus College has initiated a lecture series to bring experienced, innovative...
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Math for Liberal Arts Poster Presentation
Students in Math for the Liberal Arts, a class that focuses on students who do not major in a science, recently presented posters that displayed math in interesting ways, from how the Allied Forces...
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Lecture on Math and Art in Berman Museum
The mathematics and computer science department will host a special lecture on math and art presented by Professor Annalisa Crannell of Franklin & Marshall College on March 29 at noon in the Berman...
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Research Aims to Reduce Transmission of Infection
With graduation behind him, Jayant Velagala 2013, a Mathematics major, is busy preparing for his first year in University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey -New Jersey Medical School this...
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Gaining Valuable Software Development Experience
Developing software systems is becoming standard fare in college computer science classes, but Ursinus College students have taken their classwork a step further: These undergraduates are working as a...
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New Faculty Members Join Ursinus
This year 11 full-time, 2 part-time visiting, and 14 part-time faculty members joined the Ursinus College faculty. Competitive national searches were conducted for the full-time positions as well as...
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Work on Semantic Web, Wireless Sensors, is Recognized
At Ursinus, Michelle Tanco 2014 has explored the “semantic web,” wireless sensor networks, and interned at a company where she learned several new technologies. She is the recipient of an Upsilon Pi...
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Pursuing Global Exploration: Watson Nominees Announced
Four Ursinus seniors are the nominees for The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which offers them the chance to complete a creative project during a year traveling abroad. The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship...
View ArticleInquirer Cites New U-Imagine! Center
The Philadelphia Inquirer featured Ursinus’s U-Imagine! The Center for Integrative and Entrepreurial Studies, in its Dec. 31 article about colleges that are emphasizing entrepreneurship. The article...
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Beiler Visit Spawns Article on Entrepreneurship
The visit by Anne Beiler, founder of “Auntie Anne’s Pretzels,” was chronicled in the Norristown Times-Herald and Pottstown Mercury. The article featured U-Imagine! The Center for Integrative and...
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“Calculus: The Musical!” Returns to Ursinus
Calculus: The Musical! comes to Ursinus March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center’s Lenfest Theater. The musical is from the Matheatre, which was created in 2006 when Marc Gutman...
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Students Find Math…Everywhere
Every year, students in Math for the Liberal Arts, a class that focuses on students who do not major in a science, are given the opportunity to create posters that demonstrate the ways in which math...
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Google VP Says Liberal Arts Leads to Lifetime Success
What are the skills needed for a lifetime of career success? According to a recent column by author and New York Times writer Tom Friedman, the skills are leadership, humility, collaboration,...
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U-Innovate! Entrepreneurs Could Discover the Next Big Idea
From innovative products, to software apps, to new concepts for the processing and delivery of scientific and medical information, the next big idea may come from Ursinus College. An upcoming...
View ArticleVideo of U-Innovate! from Pottstown Mercury
The Mercury newspaper of Pottstown covered U-Innovate! and featured a highlights video of the competition. Fifteen student teams vied for seed money and the change to develop their ideas over the...
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Using Math to Combat Pests in Agriculture
Cara Sulyok 2015 didn’t love math as a middle school student. But one of her teachers saw Sulyok’s potential, applied innovative teaching techniques to spark her interest, and soon math was a passion....
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