Clean Water Institute

Clean Water Institute hosts elementary students

The Lycoming College Clean Water Institute welcomed approximately 70 third-graders from Montgomery Elementary School to campus on May 18. Dr. Melvin Zimmerman, professor of biology, and Dr. Richard Erickson, associate professor of astronomy and phy ...

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Science Saturday for prospective students to be held Sept. 24

Lycoming College will host its annual Science Saturday Open House on Sept. 24, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The program offers prospective students an inside look at the College's astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics departments and programs such as ...

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Lycoming pledges to reduce carbon footprint

Lycoming College President James Douthat has called upon all members of the College community to support initiatives to reduce carbon emissions on campus. On Wednesday, April 20, during a ceremony on the steps of Long Hall, Douthat signed the Lycomi ...

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Clean Water Institute recognized

The Lycoming College Clean Water Institute (CWI) recently received two recognitions for its environmental efforts. The CWI received one of the 16 "Champion of the Pennsylvania Wilds" awards presented April 28 in St. Marys. The awards recognize indi ...

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Recyclemania results announced

Lycoming College was one of 630 colleges and universities from across the U.S. that recently participated in Recyclemania, which is in its 10th year of competition. During Recyclemania, Lycoming's buildings and grounds staff collected plastic, glas ...

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Biology students attend Pennsylvania Academy of Science Meetings

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa – Lycoming College biology students presented posters at the 87th Annual Pennsylvania Academy of Science Meetings at Penn State Altoona on April 1-3. At the event, Dr. Peter Petokas, research associate of the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute, ch ...

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Petokas interviewed regarding endangered species

Dr. Peter Petokas, research associate in the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute, was recently interviewed by Tom Pelton, journalist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Bay Daily and WYPR, a regional National Public Radio affiliate in Baltimore, ...

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Clean Water Institute hosts unassessed water initiative

The Lycoming College Clean Water Institute and the Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited will host a presentation on the initiative to assess the water quality of unassessed streams in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Colleg ...

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