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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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