Dr. Kerry Richmond, assistant professor of criminal justice at Lycoming College, received the second Berthold Research and Information Competencies Award from the College during a presentation April 17. The award is given annually to a faculty member who has exhibited a commitment to research and information competencies in assignments, collaboration, curriculum, mapping, professional development and scholarship.

The award is named in honor of Dr. Howard Berthold, retired professor of psychology as well as the first and long-serving chair of the Faculty Library Advisory Committee. Berthold was a strong supporter of Snowden Library’s instruction program.

Richmond earned a bachelor’s degree in history and sociology from Boston College, a master’s degree in criminal justice from Central Connecticut State University, and a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Richmond’s research evaluates whether employment in the federal prison industries program, UNICOR, affects the institutional misconduct and recidivism rates of female inmates. Her primary research interests focus on the effectiveness of correctional programming to promote the reintegration of offenders, specifically females.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Concert Band will hold a free pops concert Friday, May 3, at 6 p.m. in Brandon Park as part of commencement weekend activities.

The band will perform works by John Philip Sousa, Charles Gounod, Franz von Suppé and others.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The latest edition of "Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature" has been released. The journal is edited by founder Dr. Sascha Feinstein, professor of English and creative writing at Lycoming College. Feinstein is also a poet and essayist, as well as the editor of "Ask me Now: Conversations of Jazz and Literature," a compilation of 10 years of Brilliant Corners materials.

The cover of the 2013 summer issue is an oil painting titled “The Duke” by Steve Schwartz, who also contributed an essay to the issue. The issue includes several essays, poems and an interview with Sam Sadigursky, a saxophonist and composer who lives in New York City. His latest CD is “Crossword/Mot Croisès.”

Featured works in the issue include “Lush Life” by Michael Gaspeny, who won the 2012 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition, an essay by Baron Wormser, the 2000 Poet Laureate of Maine, and a poem by Sydney Lea, the poet laureate of Vermont.

Brilliant Corners is published biannually and features jazz-related poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A subscription costs $12 a year ($18 for international orders). Send check or money to Brilliant Corners, Lycoming College, 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701. More information can be found at www.lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners.

Published at Lycoming College, Brilliant Corners is funded in part by Lycoming College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and private endowments.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College students in professor Mel Zimmerman’s Invertebrate Zoology class recently were in a class that was infested with insects – the edible kind, that is.

As part of Zimmerman’s final lab for the class, students cooked up invertebrates to eat as part of a lesson in entomophagy, the consumption of insects, which has been around for thousands of years in some cultures. According to Zimmerman, it is estimated today that more than half of the people of the world eat a variety of flying, crawling and biting bugs.

“Not only do these insects apparently taste good, but they’re an inexpensive and nutritious food source,” Zimmerman said. “Eating insects is a way to get a high protein food source – rather than fight them as pests, eat them!”

The menu for “Zimm’s Cockroach Café” featured bacon and cheddar crickets, barbecue mealworms, pickled weaver ant eggs, shrimp, dried cuttlefish, crayfish tails, scallops, octopus and clams. For dessert, there were candy lollipops with a dried cricket inside.

The students enjoyed making their way around the room to sample all the delicacies and many determined that the worst were the live mealworms and the spicy cuttlefish. Several students said the mealworms “popped” in their mouths and also enjoyed treats from a bowl of “mixed bugs,” which featured crickets, grasshoppers, silkworms, mole crickets and bamboo worms. 

Some students preferred to pair the unusual offerings with crackers, cheese and other snacks, while others just doused the insects in hot sauce or chocolate syrup.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Members of the Lycoming College Black Student Union and two faculty advisers recently traveled to Baltimore, Md., to visit the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. The students were accompanied by Seth Goodman, assistant professor of art, and Michael Darough, visiting assistant professor of art.

According to club president Sifa Blackmon, a junior graphic design and photography major, the idea to go to a museum was from one of the club’s general members, Olivia Coleman. Other students who went were Kristina Conaway, Marylynn Ryan and Emereis McKelvey.

“I found the Great Blacks in Wax Museum online and I thought it would be an interesting and fun way for the club members to get a sense of their history, the struggles, hardships and the triumphs immortalized in wax,” Blackmon said. “I think the most interesting part of the trip, for me, were the wax statues that we saw in the museum. I don’t think I expected for them to feel so lifelike and detailed as they were.”

Blackmon said the group got to go through a replica of a slave ship. “Between the information and stories presented – the sounds we heard and the figures depicted inside – there was this wave of sorrow, not just for the experience that our ancestors went through, but the realization of how easy it is to forget these moments that made up our past,” she said. “To forget the blood and tears shed over the years. In my opinion, it made me more appreciative of my life and the experiences that I have had in my time.”

During the trip, the students also visited downtown and the inner harbor, which Blackmon said was a lot of fun.

“It was nice to just enjoy the nice weather and laid-back atmosphere with everyone, especially with all the stress from classes,” she said. “All of the attractions and sites that the harbor hosted were really fun to watch and check out.”

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is among the nation’s most dynamic cultural and educational institutions. Because it is a wax museum committed solely to the study and preservation of African-American history, it is also among the most unique. Primarily, the presentation of life-size, life-like wax figures highlighting historical and contemporary personalities of African ancestry defines its uniqueness.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College sophomore chemistry major Rory McAtee, of Easton, presented his chemistry research with Dr. Charles H. Mahler, assistant professor of chemistry, at the 77^th annual Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention on April 13 at Lebanon Valley College in Annville.

His talk was “Synthesis and Analysis of Thermochemical, Electronic and Steric Properties in Transition Metal - Phosphine Complexes with 31P NMR Spectroscopy.”

The Lycoming College chapter of the national honor society Phi Kappa Phi inducted 33 members – including faculty members Drs. Cullen Chandler, associate professor of history, and Sandra Kingery, professor of Spanish – on April 13.

Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. The society began in 1897 and its name is derived from the initial letters of the three Greek words forming its motto:  Philosophia Krateito Photon, “Let the love of learning rule humanity.” 

There are more than 300 chapters of Phi Kappa Phi. Each year, Phi Kappa Phi sponsors a national competition for graduate fellowships to be used for post-undergraduate study, and each chapter may submit one nominee. In the past 12 years, six Lycoming students have received this prestigious scholarship.

The College selected two semi-finalists for the award: Linda McCargo, an economics and German major, and Alyssa Webb, a political science and archaeology major. Webb was the finalist for the College and will be entered into the national competition for a chance at a scholarship worth up to $15,000, said Dr. Mel Zimmerman, chapter adviser and professor of biology at Lycoming. The winner will be announced this summer.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College presented its top four awards during its annual Honors Convocation on April 13.

Dr. David Fisher, professor and department chair of physics and astronomy, is the recipient of the 2013 Constance Cupp Plankenhorn Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. He joined the Lycoming faculty in 1984. His research areas include condensed matter physics, radiation damage in crystalline and amorphous materials at low temperature, and space flight history. Fisher earned a bachelor’s from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware.

Seth Goodman, assistant professor of art, is recipient of the 2013 Junior Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. He has taught at Lycoming since 2008. Goodman teaches painting, drawing, two-dimensional design and color theory. He exhibits his paintings, drawings and mixed media work nationally and internationally. His major topics of research deal with issues relating to American social class and its relationship with expressions of identity. Goodman earned a bachelor’s in fine arts from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and an MFA from Towson University.

Brittany Tasch, student life coordinator and assistant for residential education, received the Makisu Award, which the student body presents to a faculty or staff member for extraordinary service and dedication. Tasch joined the College in 2011as the student life coordinator for Rich, Forrest and Williams halls as well as for the apartments and The Commons. She also oversees resident adviser training, recognition and programming initiatives. She is the adviser for the LycoTrails hiking club, Beta Phi Gamma sorority and the Lycoming College chapter of Advancing Communities by Educating and Serving. She earned a bachelor’s in communication with a concentration in public relations-advertising from Messiah College in 2009 and a master’s from Alvernia University in 2011.

John Ryan Wolff, of Morrisville, was presented the 62^nd annual Chieftain Award. First presented in 1952, the award is the highest honor given to a graduating senior. Wolff, who will earn a bachelor’s degree in finance and management in May, was involved in numerous campus activities, including being on the men’s basketball team for four years, a resident adviser for three years and a member of the Campus Activities Board. He has worked for Lycoming’s recreation and intramurals department since he was a freshman. He also received the Jack C. Buckle Scholarship his junior year for leadership in student activities. This year, he created the first Warrior Extreme Challenge, which had more than 100 participants take part in an obstacle course on campus. Wolff has accepted a position with Precision Castparts Corp., headquartered in Portland, Ore. The company creates aerospace and military parts for aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College seniors in the digital communication program will present an exhibition of their senior capstone work on Tuesday, April 16, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Communication Building on the corner of Fourth and Franklin streets. The event is free and open to the public.

The program, Untitled, will feature film screenings of Williamsport Fire by Tom Lurie, Forever Changed by Courtney Prantl and Chimera by Scott Hizny. Video installations will include Just Below Your Feet by Sarah Griggs, Lost and Found by Tricia Mundell and Solitary Solidarity by Natalie Johnson.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College psychology professor Dr. Kathryn M. Ryan presented It’s Just Personality, a talk on personality traits, on Wednesday, April 3 in the College library archives. The presentation was given to the local chapter of the National Organization for Women as well as students, faculty, staff and the public.

During her presentation, Ryan discussed her 2011-12 sabbatical research on contemporary personality theory and research. Her talk incorporated the history of research and the importance of psychometrics – or reliability and validity – to the field of personality theory. Her talk focused on three specific traits: superconfident, frequently anxious and outgoing personalities, of which she drew character sketches for her audience.

The talk also included the announcement of the book she is writing based on her research and these three personality traits. Ryan stated that personality is a growing area of research and psychology is now focusing more on “abnormal” and “brain” psychology, where she would like to focus on the normal, individual differences that create a unique personality.

“Personality traits are influenced by learning and experience, as well as temperament,” Ryan said. “Many traits also change over time. I believe that people could get along better if they understood their own and others’ personalities. I am writing the book because books in the popular press are not representative of the field.”

Ryan, also a professor of women’s and gender studies, earned her Ph.D. in personality and social psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Much of her research has focused on relationships and aggression, including a focus on sexual and physical aggression, playful aggression and how people define relationship violence. She is a board member of the Eastern Colleges Science Conference.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College held the fourth Digital Media Video Annual on Tuesday, April 9, at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport.

The event included screenings of short narrative, documentary, animation and experimental films by Lycoming students.

Also during the event, the Woodruff Grand Jury Prize was awarded to the student judged to have produced the best overall film. Tom Woodruff Jr. and his wife, Tami, are both Lycoming graduates. Woodruff, a native of Montoursville, Pa., and member of the Central Pennsylvania Film Office advisory board, garnered an Academy Award for his special effects work on the Meryl Streep film “Death Becomes Her.” He also received Academy Award nominations for “Starship Troopers” and “Alien 3.” Previous Woodruff award recipients were Chelsea Moore and Christina Moliterno.

This year’s winner was Williamsport Fire by Tom Lurie, according to Leah Peterson, communications department chair and assistant professor of digital media. Lurie’s film also won the award that night for best documentary and audience favorite. Peterson said the other awards were Hott Zaaq/570 by Jehiel Boner and John Piazza, best narrative; Girl Talk by Chelsea Moore, best experimental; and The Lonely Dog by Lindsey Scott, best animation.

Other students who participated were Scott Hizny with his films Chimera and Rick Rack, Emily Schumann, Love, Tricia Mundell, Lost and Found, Brianne Charnigo, Cyclops in Space, and Ethan Bierly, The Downfall Of America and When You Were Young.

The videos were selected by Lycoming art faculty members Lynn Estomin, Seth Goodman, Michael Darough, film studies faculty, Grant Fausey, and digital media faculty, Jim Dougherty.

To watch the video, visit http://vimeo.com/64117285.

To read more about the event, visit http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/591341/Documentary-on-firefighters-wins-grand-prize-at-screening.html?nav=5011

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College recognized co-curricular student achievement on campus during its seventh annual Leadership and Service Awards Banquet on April 10.

The Seuren Leadership Speaker Series address was given by Lycoming President Dr. James Douthat, who discussed the role of luck in leadership and how many great leaders start out as followers who learn from a leader’s mistakes. Andrea Seuren, a 1976 Lycoming graduate, established the speaker series in 2007 in memory of her parents. The series’ purpose is to build a culture of leadership at the College that espouses service, ethics and critical thinking.

Douthat will retire as the 14th president of the College in June after 24 years of service. During his tenure, Lycoming’s academic profile was raised to that of a national liberal arts and sciences college. Today, Lycoming is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com and The Princeton Review.

Douthat told the audience that great leaders ensure that the next generation is taken care of. “Good lessons can be learned from not-so-good leaders, but great leaders learn from others’ mistakes,” he said. “Followers who become leaders are good observers.”

Douthat discussed leadership among former presidents such as Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, but said that historians often cite lesser-known James Polk as one of the greatest presidents. “Time will work to define great leaders,” he said. “These presidents share connections as leaders: they did what’s best for the country rather than what was popular.”

Luck also plays a role in a leader’s success, Douthat said, but only for those with a trained mind who are willing to take advantage of it. “Leadership and learning are indispensable, as Kennedy said.”

He then switched from the success of political leadership to leaders in a community – volunteers. “Serving as campaign chair for the United Way confirmed that success is attainable only when legions of volunteers come together,” Douthat said. “There will always be more charitable causes than you can volunteer for, but you volunteer anyway.” He said voluntary leadership done well is a tough job that one does for the reward of helping others.

Award winners were Woody Rittmiller, intramural male athlete of the year; Emily Mixel, intramural female athlete of the year; Jack Port, intrafraternity council spirit award; Casey Manion, intrafraternity council service award; Kevin Morrow, intrafraternity council scholar award; Christine Gillogly, Panhellenic council spirit award; Anna Rittmiller, Panhellenic council scholar award; Cody Giles, intrafraternity council man of the year; Meghan Cox, Panhellenic council woman of the year; Elizabeth Greenaway, sorority adviser of the year; Alpha Xi Delta, chapter of the year; Multicultural Awareness Group, outstanding program of the year; Brittany Tasch, student organization adviser of the year; Lycoming chapter of Advancing Communities by Educating and Serving, student organization of the year; Mike Kane, outstanding student leader and volunteer of the year; LACES alternative spring break, outstanding community service program award; Colleges Against Cancer – Relay For Life, outstanding community service fundraising event award; and Habitat for Humanity, outstanding community service organization award. Natalie Johnson, Stephanie Bowen and Andrea Eagle also were recognized as senior community service scholars.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Stephanie Bowen, a senior archaeology and American studies major at Lycoming College, will begin the Barbara Holley Internship at Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library after she graduates in May.

The internship will allow Bowen to further her experiences with information sciences. According to Janet Hurlbert, associate dean and director of library services, this is the first time a Lycoming graduate has been accepted for this extremely competitive, full-time paid internship with benefits.

For one year, Bowen will work at Gettysburg, rotating her time between four positions: special collections, reference and instruction, technical services and user services. The internship is intended for full library experience in operations, procedures and management and is named for Holley, a Gettysburg alumna.

“I found out about the scholarship through the staff at Snowden Library. They thought the internship would be a great opportunity and encouraged me to apply,” stated Bowen. “The staff helped me through the whole process. I can’t thank them enough.”

Bowen, of Barto, Pa., has worked as a Snowden Library circulation assistant since her freshman year at Lycoming, where she helps check out books and assist library users. She also held an internship at the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg during summer 2012, where she was responsible for inventorying and cataloging Native American artifacts. From this catalog, she created Excel spreadsheets, took photographs and evaluated the artifacts for their relevance to Pennsylvania history.

Bowen said that working at Snowden is definitely the reason behind her taking an interest in library science. “I enjoyed the library atmosphere, learning about new library resources and most importantly assisting students and faculty,” Bowen said.

After completing her internship, Bowen plans to pursue a master’s degree in library science at Drexel University with the goal of working in an academic library.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College creative writing students recently gave a public poetry and prose reading at Avenue 209 Coffee House in Lock Haven.

The four students – Phoebe Wagner, a junior from Muncy; Cassandra Mainiero, a senior from Sparta, N.J.; Bridget Bellmore, a sophomore from Curwensville; and Amanda Edens, a senior from Pahrump, Nev. – were accompanied by Shanna Wheeler, assistant director of the College’s Academic Resource Center. The five shared the stage on a rotating basis to read poetry, short story excerpts and creative essays for two hours.

Wheeler read poems from her published collection, Lo & Behold, while the students read work that appears in the College’s literary magazine, Tributary. The audience included local residents and more than two dozen Lock Haven University students.

Select readings from the event were recorded and will air on The Conjure Man Radio Hour on Sunday, April 14 at 10 p.m. on WXPI (88.5 FM).

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College student Briana Wingrove, a junior in the education program and a psychology major, was recently awarded the 2013 Susquehanna Valley Reading Council (SVRC) Education Scholarship. 

Wingrove competed with students pursuing teacher certification from Lycoming and other surrounding colleges and universities. SVRC is an organization of professional and private individuals whose mission is to promote reading and literacy. 

Wingrove is pursuing both PreK-4 early childhood education and PreK-8 special education teaching credentials. She is completing a pre-student teaching experience in the classroom where she will student teach in the upcoming fall semester.

Dr. Rachel Hickoff-Cresko, assistant professor of education, said that each semester she takes a group of students to the SVRC’s meeting. 

“It is a good opportunity for them to connect with a professional organization, to meet in-service educators and hear about current issues in the teaching field,” Hickoff-Cresko said. “Amy Cline, a senior in the education program and a psychology major, received the award last year and was the first Lycoming College student to do so.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Sandra Kingery, professor of Spanish at Lycoming College, has been accepted into a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on translation at the University of Illinois.

The theme of the institute is “The Centrality of Translation to the Humanities: New Interdisciplinary Scholarship.” According to Dr. Elizabeth Lowe at the School for Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at the university, Kingery was one of 25 participants selected for the summer seminar. She also was accepted into a two-week residency program that will take place in May at the Nida School of Translation Studies at Misano Adriatico (Rimini), Italy.

During the summer program, Kingery will continue to analyze the translation of gender-neutral nouns from English to Spanish. According to Kingery, there is a perception that “non-feminist” translation strategies are neutral, while feminist strategies are considered biased. Her case-study will focus on two translations – by Jorge Luis Borges and Enrique Ortenbach – of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

She will discuss an extensive reading list during the program, which includes the books On the Art of Translation by Hugo Fredrich, The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation by Lawrence Venuti, Why Translation Matters by Edith Grossman, several translation-themed books by Catherine Porter and Translation Studies: A Dynamic Model for Revitalizing the Humanities by Rainer Schulte. Kingery also will hold with discussions about the translation of various versions of the Bible and a dialogue about themes within works by William Faulkner and  Gabriel Garcia-Marquez.

Kingery’s publications focus particularly on Ana Maria Moix’s novels and short stories, but also include studies of Esther Tusquets and Rosa Chacel. Her translation of Moix’s first novel, Julia, was published with the University of Nebraska Press and her translation of Moix’s most recent book of short stories, Of My Real Life I Know Nothing, was published by Latin American Literary Review Press. Some of her research and teaching interests include literature from post-Civil War Spain, women’s literature and translation. Kingery also has translated a number of philosophical texts by Daniel Innerarity, including The Future and Its Enemies.

Kingery earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. After studying at the University of Barcelona for a year, she completed a master’s degree and doctorate in Spanish literature at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Kingery has lived in various regions of Spain and traveled extensively in Latin America.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College students in Dr. Kerry M. Richmond’s Correctional Policy course partnered with the Lycoming County Pre-Release Center to hold a book discussion group on Thursday, April 4, with the female residents.

The discussion was about the book, “Grace Goes to Prison: An Inspiring Story of Hope and Humanity,” by Melanie G. Snyder, who also attended the event.

The nonfiction book is about a 37-year-old homemaker and former Avon lady named Marie Hamilton, who started visiting a group of prison inmates with one simple idea: to look for and affirm the good in them. In the 30 years that followed, she expanded that vision, creating unique programs to educate, empower and support inmates to be successful when paroled. Her volunteer work has challenged conventional wisdom about how to deal with criminals. She’s had no formal education in criminal justice, yet her programs have become an integral part of Pennsylvania’s prison system. She became a tireless advocate for restorative justice and alternatives to incarceration.

Snyder is the executive director of the Lancaster County Re-entry Management Organization, an initiative in Pennsylvania to improve community safety by helping people transitioning out of prison to become productive citizens and remain crime-free. She is a National Institute of Corrections-certified Offender Workforce Development Specialist who teaches college writing courses, teaches conflict resolution skills to community, school and faith groups, and speaks regularly to a variety of audiences about restorative justice, criminal justice and related topics.

After “Grace Goes to Prison” was published, Snyder traveled throughout the United States, doing speaking engagements and meeting with other re-entry and restorative justice professionals to discuss criminal justice issues and exchange information and ideas.

Snyder was a guest speaker in Richmond’s class the next day, where she discussed the issue of re-entry with the students and how they need to learn to work with those who commit crimes and complete their incarceration. She spoke to the class about positive community involvement within the re-entry and pre-release process. During the class, students discussed the book and how it related to current prison policies.

Richmond said that beginning last semester, the College’s department of criminal justice-criminology has been partnering with the Pre-Release Center to hold a book discussion group with the female residents.  Last semester, the discussion was on “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett.

“The book discussion groups are a way for our department to organize programming for the residents in the Pre-Release Center,” Richmond said. “In addition, it is a great opportunity for both students and residents to engage with and learn from each other. It has been an amazing experience for all involved.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College biology students and faculty members recently attended the 89^th annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science held at the University of Pittsburgh-Bradford.

The following were presented during the event:

• “Monitoring Nutrient and Sediment Loads and Effectiveness of Farm BMPs,” a poster by Quentin Reinford, a senior from McAlisterville.
• “Biological response of two North Central PA Streams after the Flood of September 2011,” a poster by Fred Rogers, a senior from South Williamsport.
• “A Novel Pedobacter species Isolated from a Freshwater Creek,” a poster by Dillon Snyder, a junior from Montoursville.
• “The Assembly and Annotation of the Chryeobacterium halifense Genome,” an oral presentation by Thomas Sontag, a junior from East Norriton.
• “Purification of Flexirubin pigments from Chryseobacterium,” an oral presentation by Jordan Krebs, a senior from Roaring Spring, and Andrew Gale, a sophomore from Levittown.
• “Average-Nucleotide Identity protein-coding (ANIpc): Novel Gnomic-Based Method to Differentiate Bacterial Species,” a poster by Krebs, Gale and Sontag.

During the event, Dr. Mel Zimmerman, biology professor and director of the Clean Water Institute, presented the poster “Contributions of Lycoming College Clean Water Institute to PAFB Unassessed Waters Project 2010-2012.” He also presented the paper “Pennsylvania Unassessed Waters Initiative: Role of SRHCES in Protection of Headwater Streams in North Central PA Watersheds,” during the Marcellus and Utica Shale Gas Symposium special session at the meeting.

 Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will test its campus emergency alert siren Tuesday, April 9, at approximately 4:15 p.m.

According to Dr. Dan Miller, Lycoming’s dean of student affairs, the emergency alert siren is a cooperative effort between officials at the College, city of Williamsport and Lycoming County.

The system is designed so officials from the College, city and county have the ability to activate the system. The College would activate the siren in a situation that presents a school-wide emergency on campus, while the city or county may use it to alert the campus community and surrounding neighborhoods of a situation in the city such as a hazardous material accident or a weather emergency.

The siren alert system provides immediate notification for the campus community and improves the city system with additional alert coverage for city residents.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature recently received a $2,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

The journal is edited by founder Dr. Sascha Feinstein, professor of English and creative writing at Lycoming College. Feinstein is also a poet and essayist, as well as the editor of Ask Me Now: Conversations of Jazz & Literature, a compilation of 10 years of Brilliant Corners materials.

Brilliant Corners is published biannually and features jazz-related poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A subscription costs $12 a year ($18 for international orders). Send check or money to Brilliant Corners, Lycoming College, 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701. More information can be found at www.lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners.

Published at Lycoming College, Brilliant Corners is funded in part by Lycoming College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and private endowments.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu. 

A paper written by three Lycoming College psychology students in spring 2011 recently has been selected to be published in an upcoming Cengage Learning textbook titled Writing Our World. 

The study, “Sitting Comfort: The Impact of Different Chairs on Anxiety,” was written by Jenna Baker, Ashlynn Beacker and Courtney Young as an assignment in Dr. Kathy Ryan’s psychology class. It was published in the spring 2011 issue of Schemata, the College’s online journal of student writing.

According to Shanna Wheeler, assistant director of the Academic Resource Center and Schemata adviser, Cengage wants to republish the paper as an example of good student writing. The study examined the extent to which different chairs influence anxiety. Participants included five males and 15 females who were asked to fill out a self-evaluation questionnaire to measure anxiety in individuals.

Baker, a junior biology-ecology major from Newfield, N.Y., said a lot of her classmates at the time were doing studies on touch, so her group decided to take a different approach and focus on anxiety.

“We were really surprised by the results because we thought that more people were going to have less anxiety in the comfortable chair, but that wasn’t what we ended up finding,” Baker said, adding that she was excited to learn the study would be seen by a much larger audience.

“I’m so happy for the opportunities that I have gotten here at Lycoming,” she said. “I feel like I would not have gotten an opportunity to get a paper published if I had gone to a larger college. I have loved Lycoming since I came to my first open house here, and I’m going to be sad when I graduate next year. I’m so grateful for all of the professors who have challenged me and helped me grow academically. As sad as I am to graduate next year, I know that I will have the skills necessary to succeed both professionally and personally from what I have gained from Lycoming.”

Beacker, a junior biology-ecology major from Galeton, said it was the first time any of them had worked on a scientific research paper.

“The results of the study did not match our hypothesis but they did provide us with ideas on how to eliminate variables for future studies to get a more accurate result,” Beacker said. “We were a bit surprised but we had a small sample size and immediately thought of ways to improve our study.”

Beacker said she had great pride about the paper being published in Schemata. “We wrote the paper our first semester at Lycoming and it received an A,” she said.

When Ryan contacted Beacker about the interest from the textbook company, Beacker was honored.

“Saying I was surprised was an understatement … Now I’m just ecstatic!” Beacker said. “I’m thankful for the opportunities that my classes and professors have provided me with at Lyco. I’ve not only got a great support system at home but also here at Lyco, and I am so very grateful! My professors have challenged me since day one of freshman year and now at the end of my junior year I can say that this hasn’t changed one bit, but I have changed as a result: I’ve grown academically and professionally.”

Bob Yagelski, the author of Writing Our World, said he found the paper while doing an Internet search for sample student papers in different academic disciplines. The book is scheduled to be published this fall.

“My textbook is intended for first-year writing courses, and it includes many examples of writing to illustrate different aspects of effective writing,” said Yagelski, who also is associate professor of English education at the University of Albany, State University of New York. “In the case of [the Lycoming] students’ paper, I wanted simply to use their introduction as one example of an effective introduction in an academic paper from a social science discipline. The excerpt from their paper will appear in a section of the book that briefly examines different approaches to introductions. I think the students’ paper provides a good example of a conventional introduction that is straightforward, clear and focused.”

Wheeler said she is thrilled that Schemata has an audience both inside and outside of the College.

“When the paper appears in print as an example of good student writing and research, this will reflect very positively on not only the students but also the College overall,” Wheeler said. “I could not have predicted this scenario back in the development phase of Schemata. I was simply looking to provide writing models for our students, as well as editing and publishing opportunities. And now a whole new dimension to the project has opened up – the potential for future publication elsewhere.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Music Department will hold recitals for its graduating seniors Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 21 in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The recitals are free and open to the public.

The featured seniors are Bryan Stillman, Tyler Wuerthner and Laura Anderson. Stillman, a saxophonist from Williamsport, will perform Saturday, April 13 at 3 p.m. Wuerthner, a tenor from Monticello, N.Y, will perform Saturday, April 13 at 4:30 p.m. and Anderson, a pianist from Williamsport, will perform Sunday, April 21, at 3 p.m.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Music Department will hold a performance of student ensembles at noon Thursday, April 4, in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The program features instrumental chamber music from the College’s Brass and Woodwind Quintets, and also the clarinet, flute and saxophone ensembles.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College communications professor Leah Bedrosian Peterson’s project Erasure was published in the spring 2013 edition of the German magazine Heritage of Our World, which is distributed with National Geographic in Germany to more than 100,000 subscribers.

Peterson, assistant professor of digital media, was invited to give classes to Westerners visiting the remote mountain regions of Southeast Asia through a photojournalist friend in the summer of 2010. She spent two months traveling through Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, which resulted in Erasure, a portfolio of photographs, drawings and videos documenting the culture and heritage of the villages and cities of the region. The title, Erasure, references the changes in the local traditional culture and the changes to the landscape as these third-world nations are being influenced by Western culture.

A drawing of one of her photographs was awarded the first place, best in show honor at the Park Art Fair International 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland. There also are plans for Erasure to be exhibited and screened in France later this year.

“While doing service work in an orphanage in Cambodia and teaching English and art to the children, one young girl saw that I did not have a treat so she offered to give me hers – this was significant because she barely had any food to eat that day,” Peterson said. “Consideration of others and sharing seems to be an inherent part of the culture. I try to remind myself of those experiences so that I can be a more compassionate person.”

Some of Peterson’s most profound experiences took place in the mountains of Laos, in sparsely populated regions where small children run around naked and girls as young as 5 or 6 carry their baby brothers or sisters around in slings.

“The hill tribe people of Laos are thought of as the lowest class in the country and don’t receive governmental support, making their region significantly underdeveloped,” Peterson said. “I was struck by the fact that the entire village, the mud, the earth, the houses, the clothing, was overwhelmingly one color – brown. This single palette seemed to signify the simplicity of their lives.”

Peterson said she is excited that her work will get distributed to a larger audience via National Geographic. She continues to show Erasure in various stages, including recent installations in Chicago and New Jersey.

Her ultimate goal would be to take a group of Lycoming students on a trip to Southeast Asia. “It would be a great opportunity for the students,” she said. “It is an experience; it’s not like going on vacation. Your comfort level is challenged.”

Although the magazine will be distributed in Germany, Peterson has requested several copies and will have one available on reserve at the Snowden Library on campus.

Peterson teaches video and theory classes at Lycoming. She studied photography at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., where she earned a BFA. She earned an MFA from Tufts University/The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. Her work deals with issues of cultural identity and questions the role of fantasy in our daily lives. Peterson exhibits her work both nationally and internationally.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College education students who are members of the Student Pennsylvania State Education Association celebrated Easter with the community on March on campus.

Children and their families came to Pennington Lounge for egg dying, face painting, sidewalk chalk, crafting and an Easter egg hunt. The event was coordinated by chapter president Julie Martinez and vice president Alex Towle.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will perform Arsenic and Old Lace from April 10-13 in the Mary L. Welch Theatre. All performances will be at 8 p.m. The play is recommended for ages 12 and up.

This black comedy premiered on Broadway in 1941 and ran in New York for more than three years. Frank Capra directed the equally popular film adaptation that starred Cary Grant. The play centers on Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic from Brooklyn who is about to marry his lady love. Unfortunately, Brewster comes from a family with a long line of crazies.

All that stands in his way to happiness are two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men. He also has to deal with his brothers, one of whom believes he is Theodore Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar and the other murderous brother who has received plastic surgery to conceal his identity. Playwright Joseph Kesselring based his plot on real-life events that occurred in Windsor, Conn.

The performance is directed by Dr. Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, who is an adjunct professor in the theatre department.

“It is not surprising at all that the play has proved to be a favorite of audiences worldwide,” Stoytcheva-Horissian said. “Arsenic and Old Lace is a hilarious comedy full of practical jokes, black humor, improbable, exaggerated characters, unbelievable situations, and chase and screen scenes. Our production guarantees you one very exciting and entertaining night in the theatre.”

The cast includes Emily Early as Abby Brewster; Jeremy Chobot as the Rev. Dr. Harper and Mr. Witherspoon; Mackenzy LaFever as Teddy Brewster; Kahla Moon as Officer Brophy; Caitlin Buffum as Officer Klein; Taylor Granger as Martha Brewster; Sarah Beddingfield as Elaine Harper; Michael Sampsell as Mortimer Brewster; Chris Hoffman as Mr. Gibbs; Nathan Bahn as Jonathan Brewster; Hershey Millner as Dr. Herman Einstein; Rachel Herman as Officer O'Hara; and Hanna Eyler as Lieutenant Rooney.

Dinner and a show will be offered on Friday, April 12, in the College’s Jane Schultz Room, Wertz Student Center. Tickets for dinner and a show are $18 per person and advance reservations are required by calling 570-321-4048. Tickets for just the show are $10 per person and $8 for seniors and students.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity recently assisted the Williamsport Lions and St. Neumann Regional Academy LEO clubs with a spring pancake brunch March 17. More than 375 people were served at the event.

“The TKE motto is ‘Better Men for a Better World,’ and surely this new member class and fraternity leadership have lived up to this motto,” said Frank Pellegrino, Lions Club president.

The TKE members assisting the Lions were Jack Abbate Jr., Adam Beacker, Alexander Branham, Zachary Campbell, Jeremy Chobot, James Dowling, Hieu Duong, Robert Hodes, Nathan Kaczmarek, Mark Munford, Michael Sampsell, William Thomas and Michael Tusay III. Brothers of these new members assisting with the event included Cody Giles, Josh Harsch, Tanner Wuerthner and Kyle Petchock. 

“It was a record crowd and we had great participation from the Lycoming College student body,” said Chobot, a freshman from Quakertown. “College students love pancakes. My fellow TKE brothers and I had the initiative to publicize the event on social media and throughout our campus and the outcome was awesome.”

“All proceeds from this fundraiser support Lions charities and the Williamsport community,” said Pellegrino. “We have an affordable hearing aid program for our local community, we support North Central Sight Services, Camp Victory in Millville, Lions Eye Bank, Beacon Lodge, scholarships for Williamsport Area High School Seniors and St. John Neumann Regional Academy seniors, Leader Dog Program and so much more.”

Tau Kappa Epsilon is an all-male fraternity founded 1899 in Bloomington, Ill. With 291 active chapters and colonies throughout the United States and Canada, TKE is the largest national and international fraternity. 

“Giving back and service to the community is nothing new for Lycoming College students, and from the first week that our freshmen students enter campus, they learn about the Williamsport community and opportunities to assist in building a better community for all,” said Amy Dowling, Lycoming’s director of alumni relations and past president of Williamsport Lions. “Then they execute, whether it is cleaning up Rider Park or Little League Field improvements or serving alongside the Lions, our students volunteer and give their time to assist at one of these opportunities. In addition, they learn that these opportunities give them a chance to network and to meet great people in the community.”

The Williamsport Lions Club of 14-G, has more than 28 members and meets usually the first and third Tuesday of each month at Bonjiovi’s in downtown Williamsport at 6:15 p.m. All meetings are open to those interested in membership or learning more about the mission of Lions. Lions Club International is the largest service organization in the world with more than 1.35 million members, 46,055 clubs in more than 207 countries and geographical areas.

The SJNRA LEO Club, sponsored by the Williamsport Lions Club, has more than 52 members of seventh through 12th grade students attending the academy at 901 Penn St., with Kathy Bahr advising the group.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Three of Pennsylvania's leading business executives and Lycoming College graduates will return to campus to participate in a panel discussion titled “Lycoming College Innovators and Entrepreneurs,” on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. in Heim Building G-11. The event is part of the College’s spring symposium on entrepreneurship and is being hosted by the Institute for Management Studies. Participants include Jay. W. Cleveland Jr., president and CEO of Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co. Inc., Ron “Buddy” Knoebel, owner of Knoebels Amusement Resort, and Michael Warehime, chairman of Snyder’s-Lance Co. Moderator will be Bill Kelly, president and CEO of WVIA Public Media and host of the “Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal,” which airs on WVIA TV and FM.

Cleveland earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1988 from Lycoming, where he played four years of varsity basketball. He joined Cleveland Brothers shortly after graduation as a management trainee. He later held positions as vice president of product support and executive vice president, adding the responsibility for the company’s engine division. Cleveland was named president and CEO of Cleveland Brothers in 2000. In 2001, he was named dealer principal by Caterpillar.

Cleveland is the son of Jay W. Cleveland, past chairman of the board, and the grandson of Royal E. Cleveland, founder of Cleveland Brothers Equipment Co. Inc. He serves on the Lycoming College Board of Trustees, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation Board of Trustees and the Harrisburg University President’s Advisory Council. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization Pittsburgh Chapter.

Knoebel is a 1965 graduate of Lycoming, where he majored in sociology. He became Lycoming’s first NCAA wrestling champion, winning the 137-pound national title in 1965. In 1986, Knoebel was inducted into Lycoming’s Athletics Hall of Fame.

Knoebels is America’s largest, free-admission amusement park and has been owned and operated by the Knoebel family since 1926. The park features two world-class roller coasters, nearly 60 other rides and award-winning food.

The 2012 Golden Ticket Awards, presented by “Amusement Today,” has Knoebels ranked in the top four internationally in the following categories: best park, friendliest park, best food, best indoor coaster, best carousel and best dark ride. “The Phoenix” is ranked third among the top 50 wooden roller coasters in the world.

Warehime earned a bachelor’s in economics from Lycoming in 1964. He has more than 40 years of experience in the food industry. The newly formed Snyder’s-Lance Co. finished 2012 with $1.62 billion in net revenues. Its primary brands include Snyder’s of Hanover Pretzels, Lance Sandwich Crackers and Cape Cod Potato Chips along with newly acquired Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps. Warehime owns a crab cake company with the Dockside label based in Philadelphia and a small $70 million asset-based private lending company. He also was chairman and director of Farmer’s Bank & Trust of Hanover.

Warehime also attended the University of Toledo Law School and has served on college and high school boards, as well as other business boards.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College held its ninth annual Relay For Life from 6 p.m. Friday, March 22, to 6 a.m. Saturday, March 23, in the College’s Recreation Center. The event raised $24,158 to benefit the American Cancer Society, according to Relay For Life chair Briana Wingrove, a junior psychology major from Williamsport.

The Lycoming chapter of Colleges Against Cancer hosted the event, which had a birthday theme. Clubs and organizations decorated birthday party-themed tables and provided snacks, activities and a variety of entertainment during the 12-hour walk-a-thon. Students and faculty competed in volleyball, dodgeball, a cupcake decorating contest and trivia.

Also during the event, Wingrove said 15 people donated 8 inches or more of their hair to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, an organization that provides free hairpieces to cancer patients.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will celebrate the 202nd anniversary of the signing of its charter on Saturday, April 6 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Recreation Center. The charter for the Williamsport Academy, one of Lycoming’s predecessor institutions, was received April 2, 1811.

During the Charter Day activities, a ceremony will be held to honor President James Douthat and his wife, Emily, for their 24 years of service to the College. Douthat will retire June 30 as the College’s 14th president. There also will be a lunch buffet for students, faculty and staff.

Proclamations will be presented by the Student Senate, Alumni Association Executive Board, faculty and local legislators, including U.S. Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Cogan Station; state Sen. Eugene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township; and state Rep. Rick Mirabito, D-Williamsport; and Williamsport Mayor Gabriel J. Campana.

The Other Guys, Lycoming’s all-male a cappella group, will perform, and the College’s Greek Week winners will be announced during the event.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College held its second Fear Factor Live event March 20 in Lamade Gymnasium. The winners were Terrell Nixon and Cody Marshall. 

Events included “Slurp but don’t burp,” a relay where runners had to keep a mixture of horseradish, oatmeal, warm mayonnaise, cottage cheese, fish heads and olives in their mouth and transfer it to a glass at the other end of the gym; “Fear Factor Pizza,” where students raced to eat a pizza made with canned dog food, sardines, anchovies, fish eyes, horseradish and baby food; and “Got Milk,” where participants were locked and chained in an ice bath and their partner had to dig through a swimming pool filled with garbage and cow parts to find the key.

The competition was arranged by the Campus Activities Board with 12 teams competing for $75 gift cards.  

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College education students recently participated in a Title I science fair at Central Elementary School in South Williamsport. 

The students were Esther Brennan, Williamsport; Caitlin DeAngelo, Reading; Sara Griggs, Downey, Calif.; Breann Grzankowski, Lebanon, N.J.; Olivia Hanner, Montoursville; Jennifer Harbora, Cherry Hill, N.J.; Kat Hennessy, Sussex, N.J.; Taylor Kendra, Sellersville; Jessy Lepper, Canton; Katie Lord, Kingston; Casey Maguire, Egg Harbor, N.J.; Erin McKernan, Williamsport; Alexis Naugle, Selinsgrove; Melanie Shepheard, Williamsport; Karissa Stoops, Orangeburg, N.Y.; Audrey Thomas, Curwensville; Kasey Uppling, Montoursville; Jessika Van Sciver, Riverside, N.J.

Together, the students came up with science experiments to help the elementary school students and their families see and explore science in new and exciting ways.

“The night proved to be an enjoyable and mind-opening experience,” Stoops said.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College History Department will welcome Dr. Edward Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, for the 40th annual Ewing Lecture. His presentation, “Where Did Freedom Come From,” is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Ayers is one of the country’s preeminent historians of the American Civil War and the New South. He taught at the University of Virginia for more than 20 years, where he was recognized for outstanding teaching by the Carnegie Foundation, the state of Virginia and the American Historical Association. He later served as dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has been Richmond’s president since 2007.

He is the author or editor of 10 books, one of which, In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863, won the prestigious Bancroft Prize awarded by the American Historical Association.

Ayers earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in American studies in 1980. He joined the faculty at Virginia in fall 1980. In 1993, he was named the Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History at UVA, and in 2001 became the Buckner W. Clay Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

His presentation will mark the 150^th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Ewing Lecture Series was established in 1973 when Robert H. Ewing, for whom it is named, retired after 27 years of teaching at Lycoming. His life was characterized by a deep religious faith, a passion for history and a strong devotion to a liberal arts education. These qualities touched the lives of all who came in contact with him and led his many friends to contribute to the Ewing fund to establish this series.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Chamber Choir will perform Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m. in Clarke Chapel. The event is free to the public.

The Chamber Choir will perform Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein and three movements from Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms. The performance is directed by Dr. Fred Thayer, music professor.

The featured performers are Richard Lakey and Amanda Horn Gunderson, pianists, and Donald Fisher, percussionist. The Chamber Choir is comprised of about 28 students who auditioned from the larger College Choir based on their vocal abilities. The Chamber Choir’s repertoire includes everything from large-scale choral works to vocal jazz.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Dr. James E. Douthat, who will retire as the 14th president of Lycoming College in June after 24 years of service, has accepted an invitation by the College’s board of trustees to deliver the keynote address at Lycoming’s 165th commencement ceremony. The event will be held Sunday, May 5 at 1 p.m. on the Quad, where the Class of 2013 will process through the Oliver Sterling Metzler Gate, which is traditionally opened just once-a-year on commencement day.

“President Douthat’s contributions to the growth and success of Lycoming College are truly remarkable,” said Peter Lynn, a 1969 alumnus of the College and board chair. “Both Jim and his wife, Emily, have touched the lives of countless students during their lifetime commitment to higher education. So it is fitting that he will lead us in celebrating the achievements of the Class of 2013. President Douthat’s long-term dedication to the College and unparalleled work ethic are perfect examples for our students as they set out into the world.”

During Douthat’s tenure, Lycoming’s academic profile was raised to that of a national liberal arts and sciences college. Today, Lycoming is consistently ranked as one of the nation’s best colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com and The Princeton Review.

The College’s overall financial position has been significantly strengthened, as illustrated by the growth of the endowment from less than $19 million when he began in 1989 to more than $175 million today. Under his leadership, Lycoming’s academic programs have grown and strengthened, strategic planning processes have been implemented, three major capital campaigns have been successfully concluded, a significant building and renovation program has been undertaken, and a revised curriculum for the College was adopted.

Tens of millions of dollars have been spent on new facilities, including the Shangraw Athletic Complex, Recreation Center, Mary L. Welch Honors Hall and The Commons, an apartment-style student residential complex. Major additions and renovations have also been undertaken, such as the expansion of the Wertz Student Center. During the past two decades, millions were focused on the growth and operational support of information technology and its integration throughout the academic curriculum of the College.

Numerous other educational enhancements were added during Douthat’s presidency. Among them, the Office of the Assistant Dean for Freshmen to support the transition to College, the Institute for Management Studies to enhance the business, accounting and economics departments, and the Visiting Scholars Program to bring directors, conductors, writers, ambassadors and others, some outside of academia, into the College’s classrooms. The College now has more than 225 endowed scholarships, making it financially possible for hundreds of students to attend each year. Douthat also worked closely with donors to recognize excellent teaching and scholarship through the creation of nine endowed professorships.

Douthat has chaired numerous boards, including the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Middle Atlantic Conference, and the Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce. He has served as a board member of Susquehanna Health, the National Advisory Board of The School of Theology at Claremont (Calif.) and on the NCAA’s Presidents’ Advisory Group for Division III. In 1999, Douthat led the Lycoming County United Way Campaign.

Douthat began his professional career at Duke University. He served there as dean for student life until 1980 when he went to Albion (Mich.) College, where he was executive vice president until he accepted the presidency at Lycoming in 1989.

Born in Petersburg, Va., Douthat earned a bachelor’s degree from The College of William and Mary. He holds a master’s in divinity and a doctorate in educational management, both from Duke University. His interests include the study of American and English history, 18th- and 19th-century Japanese netsuke, and international travel, having visited more than two dozen countries.

He and Emily are the parents of two grown children, Mark and Anna.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College art professor Lynn Estomin is the show judge for the Art with an Edge regional graphic arts competition and show at the Station Gallery, 2 E. Bald Eagle St., Lock Haven. An opening reception will be held Friday, March 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. and the exhibit will be on display through April 6.

The exhibit will feature graphic artwork from local artisans, professional graphic designers and students from Lock Haven University. Estomin, who teaches photography and digital art at Lycoming, will select the first, second and third place award winners, who will receive cash prizes.

Estomin is a videographer, photographer and interactive media artist who creates art that speaks to social issues. Her award-winning video and broadcast nationally on PBS. Her photography and digital images have been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. She teaches commercial design and digital art at Lycoming College.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

LACES – the Lycoming College chapter of Advancing Communities by Educating and Serving – recently took its first alternative spring break trip to the Dominican Republic. LACES is an affiliate of ACES North America, a nonprofit organization that helps people in the Dominican Republic have access to educational opportunities and routine healthcare.

LACES is a liaison between ACES and the College to provide community service opportunities and conduct fundraisers to aid students in trips to the Dominican Republic to further serve the global community.

Four Lycoming students – Miranda Gavrila, a freshman biology major from Montclair, N.J.; Olivia Hanner, a junior biology major from Montoursville; Laura Miller, a junior criminal justice and Spanish major from East Stroudsburg; and Jessica Rae, a senior psychology major from New Freedom – along with Brittany Tasch, student life coordinator and adviser, spent a week volunteering in the Dominican Republic.   

“There are no words in any language that can express what I felt during our volunteer work in the Dominican Republic,” Gavrila said about her experiences. “Much of our manual labor involved distributing donations amongst various communities, building a garden for a school and gathering sand for a green-house construction project, all of which were physically challenging but satisfying.”

Gavrila said the most spiritually rewarding experiences came from being present in village meetings to discuss solutions to their lack of resources, or playing with the children of the Cabón School.  

“Some of us were able to communicate in Spanish to the kids, but we all connected through laughter,” Gavrila said. “Our Dominican friends taught us the phrase ‘te amo de gratis,’ which, in English, literally translates to: ‘I love you unconditionally.’ The other members of LACES, who have become my sisters after taking this journey together, use this expression of love amongst each other constantly, wishing we were back in the Dominican with the community that we worked for, our new family.”

“Over the last two weeks, I have tried numerous times to put into words just how amazing this trip was,” Miller said. “I have come to the conclusion that it is quite impossible to do. The LACES service trip was an exceptional experience that no words could even begin to describe without losing the essence of the trip. My life has changed immensely, just by meeting the people of the Dominican Republic and being able to become friends with them. I feel honored and blessed to have had this experience. Seeing the smiles on their faces and hearing all of the laughter and thankfulness in their words is something that I would never trade for the world.”

From May 6-20, 16 Lycoming students and four Lycoming staff members will spend two weeks in the Dominican Republic to help with medical and food outreaches to struggling communities, volunteer in local schools, establish an orchard to help support a women’s co-op, and assist a remote coffee farm with establishing a direct, fair trade relationship with Williamsport-based coffee shops. The trip will be part of the College’s May Term class in which students receive class credit for the hands-on experience.

According to Dr. Caroline Payne, assistant professor of political science, the College also is working with ACES to have students intern in the Dominican Republic. “Clearly, this is an organization that offers the Lycoming community a lot of great opportunities,” Payne said.

Gavrila agreed. “I’m so fortunate to have been blessed with the opportunity to discover more about myself through service work,” she said. “I hope that others are inspired to take this trip as well because it’s an opportunity to see the power that we each possess to change one person, one community, one country.”

“The most amazing thing for me as the adviser of the trip and of the LACES student organization is not only that the work is benefitting a community and country in need, but the chance to see students grow through the service of helping others,” Tasch said. “The week spent in the Dominican was filled with laughter and joy, but also with sorrow, tears and self-discovery. Students were able to see life outside of what they are used to and interact with people who are vastly different than them and who have very real struggles and hurts. The four students that I took to the Dominican came back changed, inspired and with an entirely new world view.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Two Lycoming College students are working on the documentary film, Just Below Your Feet, to investigate the status of cultural resource management in the state.

What began as a combined, independent-study research project by seniors Stephanie Bowen, of Barto, an archaeology and American studies major, and Sara Griggs, of Downey, Calif., a digital communication major and archaeology minor, has steamrolled into an interesting partnership with Northcentral Chapter 8, Society for PA Archaeology, the Lycoming County Historical Society and has enlisted the assistance and interest of State Rep. Rick Mirabito (D-Williamsport).

The students have contacted current and former lawmakers and politicians, historic preservation officers, government employees, museum directors, university faculty, professional archaeologists and even recent graduates looking for careers in the field of archaeology to learn more about the history of Act 70, a 1995 amendment to the State History Code. Historic preservationists and archaeologists argue the law weakens the state’s ability to protect its cultural heritage. Numerous prehistoric and historic sites have been threatened, and many lost, to development in the law’s wake.

The duo created a Facebook page, www.Facebook.com/JustBelowYourFeet, where they share photos and video clips of their progress. They also host weekly events to update their fans on their research.

According to Bowen, her interest in the topic was piqued while taking an archaeology course at Lycoming College. “During an American Archaeology class, I learned about Act 70 and its position within Pennsylvania archaeology,” she said. “As a young archaeologist and PA resident, I found it troubling that I was unaware of a law that had a tremendous influence upon archaeology in my state. Hence, I decided to investigate how Act 70 began and how the legislation has affected archeology in the state.”

Researching the project gives rise to mixed feelings. “I’m excited about the interest both professionals and the public are showing in this project,” Bowen said. “People are generally concerned about the status of Pennsylvania’s cultural resources, and they should be. While Pennsylvania makes a valiant effort to preserve its past, our research is showing that Act 70 hinders the process and can lead to lost cultural resources.”

Griggs, the cinematographer in the group, also has a background in archaeology. “I have always been interested in history and archaeology and having the public more interested in museums and educational outreach programs, but I never knew how I could personally do that,” she said.

But Griggs also is experiencing the positive and negative aspects of the project. “It’s exciting to work with the equipment out in the field, and have someone helping,” she said. “Visiting and interacting with various archaeologists in Pennsylvania has greatly increased my interests in historical preservation and public awareness on the topic.” 

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College Panhellenic Council members Maly Kongsynonh and Amy Vaughn recently presented prom dresses to the Junior League of Williamsport for the nonprofit organization’s annual Cinderella’s Closet event.

Kongsynonh, a junior business administration major and member of Gamma Delta Sigma, said the dresses were donated by representatives from all five sororities on campus during a two-week drive. Vaughn said many of the sorority sisters brought the dresses back from their hometowns when they returned to campus after spring break.

Kongsynonh and Vaughn, along with about 20 other sorority sisters, plan to volunteer during Cinderella’s Closet, which will be held Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Community Arts Center, 220 W. Fourth St.

Cinderella’s Closet is an event designed to increase the self-esteem of young women by providing them with a chance to attend a milestone event of their high school career. The Junior League of Williamsport is a nonprofit organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

The Panhellenic Council is the governing council for the five sororities at the College. With more than 200 members, it is the largest women’s organization on campus. The council is dedicated to enhancing the lives of sorority women through leadership, service and scholarship.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Equestrian Club recently participated in its first intercollegiate competition March 16-17 at Briarwood Farms in Flemington, N.J.

The club competed against six other colleges. According to Nora Castner, club president, three riders placed during the event. Kelly Higgins, of Kunkletown, a junior German major, won two first-place awards in intermediate advanced walk, trot and canter. Castner, of Bloomsbury, N.J., a senior psychology major, won fourth- and sixth-place awards in intermediate advanced walk, trot and canter; and Jennifer Gillin, of Barnegat, N.J., a junior biology major, placed second in intermediate beginner walk, trot and canter.

The College’s Equestrian Club is a group of students of all ability levels who are interested in horseback riding and competition. Dr. Amy Rogers, professor of education, is the club adviser. Members of the club also volunteer twice a week at SunnyBrook Meadows Therapeutic Riding, Montgomery.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College held its annual Medieval Lyco on Saturday, March 16 in Pennington Lounge.

Activities included tricycle jousting, fencing demonstrations and medieval battle enactments. There also was live medieval-themed music and food.

Sam Clarke, of Cranberry Township, a senior archaeology major, gave fencing demonstrations to some of the middle school students in attendance; and Victoria Rogers, of South Paris, Maine, a senior English major, had a poster display about Feudal Japan as part of the Japanese Culture Club activities. Students also sold pirate-themed cupcakes, decorated the lounge with paper torches and wore hand-made armor.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will host its annual Senior Art Show April 5-May 5 in the College's Art Gallery in the Snowden Library. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 5, from 5-6:30 p.m. The reception and gallery viewing are free and open to the public.

The competitive exhibition showcases the best work of the graduating seniors. Students featured in the exhibit are: Krystalynn Anderson, New Castle; Megan Diehl, Williamsport; Danielle Frontz, Allenwood; Olivia Gardner, Montoursville; Sarah Honhold, Sewickley; Karen Kaetzel, Bloomingdale, N.J.; John Kitner, Great Mills, Md.; Ashlea Leisenring, Sunbury; Chelsey Lindaberry, Washington, N.J.; Kasey Lyon, Canton; Emily Mixell, Reinholds; Jennifer Skocypec, Asbury, N.J.; and Katelyn Traxler, Lock Haven.

The show was juried by Jackie Milad, whose exhibit “Speak for Me (Ventriloquist)” was featured from Feb. 21-March 28 in the Art Gallery. Milad is program coordinator and curator for the Stamp Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Twenty-two students and three advisers from Lycoming College recently participated in Habitat for Humanity’s Collegiate Challenge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The week-long program is specifically geared toward college students on their spring break. This was 25th year that Lycoming students participated in the challenge. Lycoming students have traveled all around the continental United States to participate in this alternative break program, including sites in Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Texas and Mississippi.

Students and advisers worked with Habitat for Humanity of Broward County for four days to clear a lot for a future build site, build picnic tables, truss two roofs and make additional home-building preparations.

The students worked with the future homeowners, which was a rewarding experience for many students, according to junior Annie Wegman, an archaeology and photography major who is president of the College’s Habitat for Humanity chapter.

The students stayed in cabins in Hugh Taylor Birch State Park along Fort Lauderdale Beach. At the camp, they had access to a dining hall, sleeping areas and showers. During their free time, they traveled to the beach and spent time canoeing, kayaking and hiking. On Monday, the students took an airboat ride through the Everglades and visited South Beach Miami. They also went to Los Olas for outdoor shopping in Fort Lauderdale.

“This was my third Habitat trip and this was one of the best trips I’ve ever taken,” Wegman said. “Everyone in the group bonded well and it was a great experience. The area was beautiful and the Habitat volunteers were helpful and encouraging.”

The group also will participate in the College’s upcoming Relay For Life event on March 22 in the Recreation Center. Club members also have worked on homes in the Williamsport area, volunteered with the Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore and organized a fundraising 5K in November.

“I would like to thank the donors who contributed to the trip,” Wegman said. “The advisers, Jeff LeCrone, Casey Spencer and Annie DiSante, made this a wonderful experience.”

Students who participated were Michael Competiello, Oak Ridge, N.J; Christian “C.J.” Conger, Egg Harbor Township, N.J.; Katelyn Conway, Palmyra, N.J.; Tiffany Craig, Orangeville; James Dowling, Flemington, N.J.; Amanda Ferster, Sunbury; Leah Handwerk, Hockessin, Del.; Erin Hale, Oakfield, N.Y.; Chloe Hess, Ephrata; Amanda Kellagher, St. Clair; Richard Matel-Galatis, Hillsborough, N.J.; Bryan McGinnis, Levittown; Amanda Miller, Freeland; Logan Mariano, Waterville; Jennifer Monico, Harleysville; Emily Reid, Montoursville; Audrey Thomas, Curwensville; Jeff Thomas, Curwensville; Joanne Walters, Williamsport; Michael Ward, Pompton Lakes, N.J.; Annie Wegman, Douglassville; and Katy Wrona, Arnold.

Lycoming College Habitat for Humanity is a Christian-based organization that has been active on campus since 1990. In addition to its annual spring break trip, the chapter is involved in the local community. The College dedicated its first Habitat house in December 2003.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Laura Pitter, counterterrorism adviser for the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch, will speak at Lycoming College as part of the 14th annual Larry Strauser Lectureship in Criminal Justice on Thursday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Heim G-11. The event is free and open to the public.

Pitter will discuss "The Treatment of Inmates at Guantanamo Bay and the System of Justice for Suspected Terrorists." She monitors, analyzes and writes about U.S. counterterrorism policies. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Pitter was a journalist, human rights advocate and attorney who practiced in both the public and private sectors.

She was a reporter during the war in Bosnia, where she wrote for Time Magazine and Reuters News Agency among other media outlets. After the war, she worked for the United Nations in both Bosnia and post Sept. 11-Afghanistan as a protection and political affairs officer. After Afghanistan, Pitter practiced law for eight years, first as a public defender and later with a product liability law firm, both in New York.

Pitter earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a law degree from the University of San Francisco.

The Strauser Lecture Series, sponsored by Lycoming’s criminal justice department, is held each year to honor the memory of Larry Strauser, a 1959 Lycoming graduate and member of the College’s faculty from 1973 until his death in 1999. Strauser, who earned a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Arizona, started the interdisciplinary criminal justice program at Lycoming in 1977.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Concert Band will perform a free concert on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Arts Center.

The concert will celebrate John Philip Sousa and feature his great-grandson, John Philip Sousa IV, as the special guest narrator. The band will be under the direction of guest conductor Loras John Schissel, conductor and curator with the Library of Congress. Tuba soloist Dr. William Ciabattari, assistant professor of music at Lycoming, will perform Herbert Clarke’s From the Shores of the Mighty Pacific with the band.

The Concert Band also will perform music by Charles Gounod, Franz von Suppe, Richard Wagner and others. 

“This will be a concert loosely in the style of John Philip Sousa’s concerts, a few of which took place in Williamsport around a century ago,” said Ciabattari. “Sousa’s great-grandson will provide anecdotes about his famous ancestor and serve as master of ceremonies for the event.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will host its ninth annual Relay For Life from 6 p.m. Friday, March 22, to 6 a.m. Saturday, March 23, in the College’s Recreation Center. All donations will benefit the American Cancer Society.

This year’s theme is birthdays. Clubs and organizations will decorate birthday party-themed tables and provide snacks, activities and a variety of entertainment during the 12-hour walk-a-thon. Students and faculty will compete in volleyball, dodgeball, a cupcake decorating contest and trivia.

Opening ceremonies begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, followed by a Survivor Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. To donate, or view a complete schedule of events, click here. The Lycoming chapter of Colleges Against Cancer hopes to raise $26,000, according to Relay For Life chair Briana Wingrove, of Williamsport, a junior psychology major.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College junior and senior chemistry majors recently gave a demonstration colloquium featuring a variety of experiments.

Students Terry Lynn, Katie Wrona, Tim Kocher, Emily Vebrosky, Justin Jacobs and Katie Wellmon performed experiements where they lit methane bubbles on fire, changed the colors of liquids, demonstrated curly chemiluminescence and showed the oxidative immolation of gummy bears.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College English Department will host award-winning novelist, memoirist and screenwriter Connie May Fowler for a reading on Thursday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event is free to the public.

Fowler teaches in the writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is the author of seven books. Her book Remembering Blue was the recipient of the Chautauqua South Literary Award. Before Women had Wings received of the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award from the League of American Pen Women. Fowler adapted Before Women had Wings into an Emmy-winning film starring Oprah Winfrey and Ellen Barkin.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College has been named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. To be admitted, a school must demonstrate that its students, faculty and staff are engaged in meaningful service that achieves measurable results in the community.

Lycoming was one of 690 colleges and universities in the U.S. recognized by the Corporation for National and Community Service, which has administered the Honor Roll since 2006.

“We congratulate the awardees and the students for their dedication to service,” said Wendy Spencer, CEO of CNCS. “These institutions have inspired students and faculty alike to roll up their sleeves and work alongside members of the community to solve problems and improve their neighbors’ lives.”

During the 2011-12 school year, which was the criteria for the Honor Roll, more than 400 Lycoming students were involved in direct service and completed in excess of 20,000 hours of volunteer work. In addition, 136 students took part in service learning activities that were integrated into course content, according to Jeffrey LeCrone, director of the Community Service Center.

During their first year, members of the Class of 2014 completed more than 1,300 hours of service toward the Freshman Community Service commitment with organizations such as Special Olympics, Habitat for Humanity and the American Red Cross.

Lycoming’s chapter of College’s Against Cancer raised more than $24,000 for the American Cancer Society, and business management students raised more than $13,000 for various local agencies.

The College’s Clean Water Institute monitored 40 Pennsylvania streams, and students, faculty and staff participated in events such as Recyclemania, Habitat for Humanity’s Shack-A-Thon, Toys for Tots and the annual Relay for Life.

Each year, Lycoming students, faculty and staff are regularly engaged in Big Brothers Big Sisters, Circle K, Habitat for Humanity, and various tutoring and mentoring programs with students in local elementary and high schools.

“Communities are strengthened when we all come together, and we are encouraged that these institutions and their students have made service a priority,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “Civic engagement should be a key component of every student’s education experience. Through reaching out to meet the needs of their neighbors, these students are deepening their impact, strengthening our democracy and ultimately preparing themselves to be successful citizens.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Mac Miller will headline the Lycoming College spring concert scheduled for Thursday, April 11, at 8 p.m. in the Recreation Center. The event is sponsored by the College’s Campus Activities Board.

Miller’s first album, Blue Slide Park, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2011 and was the first independently distributed debut to take the No. 1 spot on the Billboard albums chart since 1995. He will perform at Lycoming after completing a European tour in March with Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz. Miller also is featured in a six-episode reality series titled Mac Miller & the Most Dope Family, on MTV2.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for Lycoming to continue its long tradition of bringing top national acts to campus,” said Larry Mannolini, Lycoming’s director of student programs and leadership development. “We are very excited about this show and we hope that our students and the community will come out to enjoy a great concert from an incredible performer.”

CAB will offer one free ticket to each Lycoming student who has paid the College’s student activity fee, a practice that is extremely rare among colleges and universities that host major campus concerts. The concert is funded by the Student Senate of Lycoming College.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday, March 18, at noon. The public ticket price will be $20. In addition to buying tickets at Lycoming or charging by phone on the College’s ticket hotline at 570-321-4056, tickets can be purchased with cash at the Dairy Queen in South Williamsport. Tickets also may be bought online at www.lycoming.edu/concert.

Previous concerts at the College have included Maroon 5, Ke$ha, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Secondhand Serenade and Good Charlotte.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will hold its annual Greek Week celebration April 1-5. The theme is Superheroes. A banner presentation outside of Wesley Hall will kick off events April 1.

The week will feature different events organized by the College’s Panhellenic and InterFraternity councils. Gabrielle Svrcek, a junior art major, and Jake Briggs, a junior political science major, are the special events chairs who are responsible for creating the events with collaboration from the Office of Student Programs.

The nine Greek organizations on campus will participate in various events including an obstacle course, water volleyball, color wars, chapel skits and a canned food collection drive. Chapel skits will be held Wednesday, April 3, at 9 p.m. in Clarke Chapel. 

Throughout the week, each Greek organization will be given a score on their participation in the event and winners will be announced at the end of the week.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Jazz Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, March 22, in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event is free to the public.

Under the direction of Dr. William Ciabattari, assistant professor of music, the ensemble will perform a wide range of music featuring songs by Cole Porter, Thad Jones, Lennie Niehaus and others.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Campus Activities Board and Intramurals are teaming up to host the first Warrior Extreme Challenge on Sunday, April 7, starting at 11 a.m.

According to Kelly Henrie, director of recreation and intramurals at the College, the Warrior Extreme Challenge will be more than an event; it’s a sense of accomplishment. “Similar to the events Tough Mudder or Warrior Dash, the Warrior Extreme Challenge will test all-around strength, stamina, mental grit and most importantly, camaraderie,” she said. “There will be approximately 15 ‘warriors’ starting the event every 15 minutes.”

The 1.1-mile course will lead participants through campus and feature 11 obstacles, including the Arctic Swim, Hay Bale Climb, Hold the Wood and Farmer’s Walk. The event will begin with Mad Ice, where participants test their strength while smashing ice blocks with a sledgehammer, and ends with Kiss the Mud, where participants crawl commando-style under rope set 12 inches from the ground. The fee to participate is $10 per person with half of the proceeds being donated to the Wounded Warrior Project.

“Lycoming student JR Wolff, who has conjured up the idea of the Warrior Extreme Challenge, chose the Wounded Warrior Project for reasons close to his heart,” Henrie said. “Not only does he have a cousin who just returned from duty in Afghanistan, but he feels there is not enough recognition for the heroes who serve our country.”

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will hold the next performance in the annual Close-Up Concert Series, Paris Between the Wars, featuring music from Paris in the 1920s on Sunday, March 24 at 3 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. Tickets are $10 at the door.

The 1920s in Paris was a cultural and artistic hub with the French composers comprising the “Les Six,” the Ballets Rousses, Stravinsky, Josephine Baker, Dada and surrealism. The program will include Milhaud’s samba-inspired The Ox on the Roof, Poulenc’s Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, the flute sonata of Dutilleux and Stravinsky’s Octet.

In conjunction with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, the performance will be conducted by Dr. William Ciabattari, assistant professor of music, and performers will include Reuben Councill, flutist; Susan Laib, oboist; Stephen Olson, bassoonist; and pianists Yvonne Mitchell-Sarch and Gary Boerckel.

The Close-Up Concert series presents great music for small ensembles performed as it was meant to be – in intimate and informal settings. All concerts are held on Sundays at 3 p.m.

For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu/music/musicAtLycoming.aspx.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Multicultural Awareness Group of Lycoming College held its 16th annual International Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Jane Schultz Room. More than 120 people were in attendance.

This year’s theme was “Spread Love Around the World.” As guests entered the room, they were given a paper heart that they could write a message on and post on the wall. Students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Estonia, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Vietnam hosted the dinner, with the guidance of Jean Wool, executive assistant for student affairs and MAG adviser.

As a tradition, international students and foreign faculties prepared dishes from their countries. A silent auction was held and raised $140, with half the proceeds benefiting “A Dime for a Meal,” a charity program that raises money to provide food and cooking services for Vietnamese children. Retiring College president Dr. James Douthat and retiring music professor Dr. Fred Thayer were honored by the group.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College applied voice faculty Janice Mianulli and Emily Wertz will present a recital of beloved vocal repertoire as part of the Concerts at Noon series on Thursday, March 14, in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.

The recital will feature works by Bach, Delibes, Handel, Offenbach, Schubert and Rossini. Mianulli and Wertz will be assisted by Amanda Gunderson, piano; Judy Burke, clarinet; Sabrina Hu, flute; and Andrew Rammon, cello. Wertz and Mianulli will perform an excerpt from a Bach cantata and several duets from operas such as Lakmé and Les contes d'Hoffmann.

Mianulli, a mezzo-soprano, has professionally performed more than 75 major choral works in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio. She earned a bachelor's degree from Westminister Choir College and a master's degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from Penn State University. She is a voice instructor at both Lycoming College and Juniata College, where she also conducts the Juniata College Women's Chamber Choir.

Wertz has been a featured soloist with the Williamsport Chamber Choir and Orchestra, Juniata College Orchestra and Choral Union, Lycoming College Chamber Choir, Essence of Joy Alumni Singers and for the Pennsylvania American Choral Directors Association. She has performed opera roles such as Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, and Lucy in The Telephone. She holds a professional performance certificate and master's degree in voice performance from Penn State University. Wertz also is an active choral conductor and singer.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will introduce a new interdisciplinary minor in neuroscience beginning in fall 2013.

The neuroscience minor is designed for students in any major who are interested in theory and research on the mind, brain and nervous system. Two required courses, Neurobiology and Biological Psychology, provide students with an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental structure and function of the brain that includes laboratory experiences across the breadth of current neuroscience research.

The two core courses train students to access, read and critically analyze primary neuroscience literature, develop hypotheses, design and carry out experiments, analyze data, present the results and engage in discussion of ethical issues related to neuroscience research.

The four elective courses allow students to explore interdisciplinary developments in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology and sociology that enrich and extend the understanding of the brain and of human thought and behavior.

"This was spurred by a confluence of faculty working together in similar areas," said Dr. Mary Morrison, assistant professor of biology. "The minor brings together faculty from psychology, biology, philosophy and sociology. This is the ultimate embrace of the liberal arts ideal."

Dr. Rebecca Gilbertson, assistant professor of psychology, stressed that this interdisciplinary approach is unique in that the philosophy department is included.

"We're creating the interface to encourage the students," Gilbertson said. "We're rewarding students by giving them a more concrete experience."

Morrison said that graduates with a minor in neuroscience will be better prepared for graduate and medical school, teaching, as well as conducting neuroscience, clinical psychology and behavioral research.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Office of College Relations earned two awards during the 28th annual Educational Advertising Awards, sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report. This year, the total public relations campaign for the College was honored with a gold award and the annualPresident's Report received a merit award.

The pieces were designed by Murray Hanford, publications manager. He has worked at the College since 1991 and has earned more than 60 awards for excellence in publications and new media pieces.

Awards were given to those entrants whose programs and materials display exceptional quality, creativity and message effectiveness. Lycoming won the awards in competition with colleges that have less than 2,000 students. Gold awards were given to only 167 institutions.

The Educational Advertising Awards is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the nation. This year, more than 3,000 entries were received from more than 1,000 colleges, universities and secondary schools from all 50 states and several foreign countries.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visitwww.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College hosted its annual Math Awareness Day for 70 eighth-grade students from regional schools on Feb. 21 in the College's Academic Center.

The theme was "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and students were exposed to a variety of fun math-based activities presented by the College students.

Participants rotated between four lessons taught by the Association for Mathematically Interested Students members: Up, Up, and Away taught by Jason Mifsud, a senior math major, and Jenna Morgan, a junior math major seeking education certification in secondary education; Soaring to New Heights taught by Carrie Tubbs, a sophomore math major, and Cortney Schoenberger, an actuarial math and quantitative economics major; Around the Race Track and Back taught by Zach McMenamin, a sophomore math major seeking education certification in secondary education, and Steve Campaniello, a junior math major; and Choo Choo taught by Ryan Boccagno and Brittany Coppola, both junior math majors seeking education certification in secondary education.

According to Mifsud, the students rehearsed and practiced projects and their PowerPoint presentations for about two months. By using interactive methods such as a NASCAR-themed game, a Battleship competition and flying paper airplanes, students learned about the quadratic table, fractions and multiplication, and velocity and distance.

The participants convened as a single group for the final activity of the day, a presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Moorhouse, assistant professor of economics. She presented Williamsport Air, which was about the economics of air travel from an airline's perspective.

"It is a major undertaking for our students," said Christopher Reed, AMIS' faculty adviser. "The club began initial planning and brainstorming for Math Awareness Day in September and began practicing teaching sessions in the beginning of January. Thanks to the students' dedication, everything ran smoothly and went extremely well. Feedback from the middle school teachers who attended with their students was positive with most teachers praising the hands-on activities and real-life situations using appropriate grade-level mathematics."

"There is a lot of work to be done behind the scenes as well," said Dr. Eileen Peluso, chair of the mathematical sciences department. "All of the logistics, from organizing speakers to scheduling classrooms to providing lunch for about 90 people, can be a daunting task. AMIS' president Jessica Lehman and vice president Meghan Hughes, along with assistance and tech support from Jared Richardson, did an outstanding job."

The mission of AMIS is "to provide social and academic programming for students to advance and diffuse knowledge of mathematical science and its applications."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Seven Lycoming College student groups participated in the ninth annual College Read-In on Feb. 23. The students read aloud from the book A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans by W. Bruce Cameron.

Participating groups included the Class of 2016, Alpha Sigma Tau, United Campus Ministry, Kappa Delta Rho, Gamma Delta Sigma and the Lycoming chapter of ACES North America. Participants from each group read the book aloud for one hour.

The students raised $105 for the Lycoming County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, according to Instructional Services Librarian Alison Gregory, who selected the book. She chose the book because it is an engaging and touching story, told from a dog's perspective as he tries to fulfill his life's purpose. Some Lycoming staff and faculty members brought their dogs as guests.

"For those of us who have chosen to adopt four-legged friends from this or other shelters, giving the money to a group that helps animals to find forever homes makes a good deal of sense," Gregory said.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu. 

Lycoming College students in Drs. David Fisher and Christopher Kulp's physicsclasses are getting hands-on lab experience thanks the proceeds from a $100,000 grant from theGeorge I. Alden Trust. The grant money was used to update the laboratory space and buy new equipment to enhance the programs offered with in the physics major.

Fisher, professor of astronomy and physics, said the grant allowed the College to buy more than 35 pieces of specialized equipment and two dozen dedicated-use tables for the instrumentation.

The physics department equipment will supplement the areas of mechanics, electromagnetism, modern physics and condensed matter, and thermodynamics, and includes a gamma ray spectrometer, a Blackbody radiation monitor, a Faraday rotator, a Hall effect sensor, a new solar telescope for safely observing the sun, digital oscilloscopes, hardware to measure hysteresis circuits, and devices that measure the speed of sound, surface tension and viscosity, among other instrumentation.

Fisher added that the students also will have additional learning experiences as they help install some of the equipment and assist with writing the lab manuals that will be used by future classes.

"This will provide a lot of hands-on lab work experience for the students," Fisher said. "We can do experiments now that otherwise were not possible."

During the last 10 years, 40 percent of the department's seniors went to graduate school in physics or astronomy, as compared to a national average of 35 percent, according to the American Institute of Physics, and in the same period, 45 percent of majors have been women, compared to just more than 20 percent nationally. Because of the department's emphasis on lab-based instruction, majors and non-majors alike learn experientially beginning in the freshman year.

Established in 1912, Alden Trust supports "institutions that demonstrate a combination of educational excellence, exciting programming, and efficient and effective administration" and capital projects that "contribute significantly to the intellectual growth of students and will enhance an institution's mission." 

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will host a career fair on Wednesday, March 13, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Lamade Gymnasium. Co-sponsored by the College and Clear Channel Radio, the event is open to the public.

Representative from more than 30 companies and local businesses, will be present to discuss employment and internships opportunities, including Baltimore Life Co., Primus Technologies, Community Services Group, Fastenal, First Quality, Home Instead Senior Care, Hope Enterprises, Kelly Services, Keystone Staffing, PMF Industries, Sovereign Bank and Thrivent Financial. Interested individuals are encouraged to wear formal dress and bring multiple copies of their resume.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visitwww.lycoming.edu. 

More than 30 Lycoming College students participated in a Try Scuba workshop on Monday, Feb. 25, at the College pool.

The experience offered students their first breath underwater and introduced the scuba certification course, according to Dr. Mel Zimmerman, professor of biology and a member of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors.

Equipment was provided by Lycoming alumnus Frank Morrow, owner of A Water Odyssey Scuba, of Williamsport, and six Lycoming students who are PADI-certified divers assisted with the workshop. The students receive certification after completing the open water scuba course offered every semester at the College.

Since 1984, Lycoming has offered PADI open water and advanced open water certification courses for physical education credit. Zimmerman coordinates the courses through A Water Odyssey Scuba. 

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visitwww.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Music Department will present violinist Riana Muller, violin instructor, as part of the Concerts at Noon series on Thursday, March 21 in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall, on the corner of Fourth and Basin streets. The performance is free to the public.

She will be assisted by Amanda Horn Gunderson, piano; Jennifer Updegrove, violin; William Muller, viola; and Andrew Rammon, cello. Muller will perform music composed by Italian violin virtuosos Antonio Vivaldi, Francesco Maria Veracini, Niccolò Paganini, Giuseppe Torelli and Giuseppe Tartini.

Muller said that the pieces by Torelli and Tartini are historically interesting. "Torelli is considered the inventor of the solo concerto," she said. "I will play Concerto Op. 8 No. 8, which was composed in 1690 and was the second concerto ever written."

Muller added that Tartini was considered one of the best violinists of his time. "According to Tartini, learning the use and power of the bow was the most important skill for violin students," she said. "In his work, The Art of the Bow, he took a theme by Corelli and composed 50 variations for it, each demonstrating a different technique of bowing. On this concert, The Art of the Bow will be shortened to the theme and only 10 variations."

The concert also will include Sonata in A Major by Vivaldi, Largo by Veracini and Grand String Quartet in E Major by Paganini. Muller will play a violin made by Mattio Gofriller in 1698 in Venice, Italy.

She is the violinist and author of Classical Music in the Foreign Language Classes and Ear Training Exercises for Violin Students.

The Lycoming College Tour Choir will perform a homecoming concert Wednesday, March 13 at 8 p.m. in Clarke Chapel following a 10-day tour in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Puerto Rico.

The choir is directed by Dr. Fred Thayer, professor of music. Featured composers include Casals, Lauridsen, Whitacre, Mulholland and Toch. The performance is free to the public.

Thayer said the repertoire will reflect pieces he wanted to be highlighted during his last year as director of the tour choir. He will retire in May.

"O magnum mysterium by Morten Lauridsen is a classic piece that I wanted the students to perform one more time while I'm here," he said. "Sleep by Eric Whitacre is a phenomenal piece. The text is so mesmerizing that by the end you feel as though you are surrendering to sleep."

A Red, Red Rose, by James Mulholland, is another piece that Thayer said is well-known in the choral repertoire. He added that another feature of the program will be a focus on Puerto Rico, where the choir will perform three concerts during the second half of the tour.

 "O vos onme, by Spanish composer Pablo Casals is one of those pieces that is very special to Puerto Ricans," Thayer said. "Also a famous cellist, Casals lived many years in Puerto Rico."

Two other pieces – Alelouya by Emile Desamours and Lacrimosa by Calixto Alvarez – are Haitian works. Thayer said Lacrimosa features an unusual pairing of two different kinds of music, with the men singing a liturgical Latin chorale, while a female soloist and the women lament in a raw, harsh, untrained tone, the death of the woman's child. "The juxtaposition of this mix is incredible," Thayer said. "The audience usually is emotionally drawn by the composition."

The second part of the program will begin with Lamento Borincano by Rafael Hernandez, which Thayer compared to a national hymn for Puerto Rico. The program will end with Thayer's original arrangement of Ain't Got Time to Die.

The Lycoming College Tour Choir consists of 40 students selected by competitive audition from the 115-member College Choir. Annually these students perform two weekend tours and a 10-day tour in the spring. The Tour Choir also will perform during the Graduation concert on May 4 in Clarke Chapel at 8 p.m.  The performance is free to the public.

For more information, visit http://www.lycoming.edu/music/musicAtLycoming.aspx.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Members of the Lycoming College Theatre Department's production of "The Vagina Monologues" recently took their show on the road and gave a performance for women at the Lycoming County Pre-Release Center.

"The Vagina Monologues" is inspired by more than 200 interviews conducted by playwright Eve Ensler, who traveled the world asking women from all walks of life about their views on sex, relationships and violence against women. Ensler and others, inspired by the play's success, worked to establish V-Day, a global nonprofit movement that has raised more than $75 million for women's anti-violence groups.

Directed by Dr. N.J. Stanley, associate professor and chair of theatre, the College's production featured not only students, but Lycoming faculty and community members as well. This was the second time the College has presented the play. Stanley said she decided to take the cast to the PRC because last year she took students there who did readings from works by Louisa May Alcott and the residents were totally engrossed.

"I asked the cast, and they were instantly enthusiastic," Stanley said. "The women residents were incredibly responsive to the show. There were only about 20 women, but they laughed so loudly and were so vocal that it felt like we were playing to 100 people."

Cast members included Anna Pysher, Betty McClain, Cynthia Pyott,‎ Hannah Eyler, Hershey Millner‎, Marisa Bayer‎, Pamela Williams‎, Rachael Herman‎, Sarah Beddingfield,‎ Taylor Granger,‎ Taylor Kendra, Victoria Goodwin,‎ Molly Blakeslee, Kathleen Houser, Linda Loehr and Susan Guinter.

According to Beddingfield, it was a privilege to perform for a group of women that were so open to letting themselves experience all the embarrassment, tragedy, love and support that the play portrays.

"All of them were at different points in their lives, as well as different points in their relationship with being a woman," Beddingfield said. "The performance was the best in my opinion because all of the women were so engaged and understanding. I was moved by their receptiveness."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College art professor Lynn Estomin will exhibit photographs and digital art in "Suspended in Time," which will be on display from Thursday, Feb. 28 to April 27 at Converge Galley, 140 W. Fourth St.

An opening reception will be held Thursday, Feb. 28, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition features traditional, landscape and cityscape paintings by Estomin, along with artists Jonathan Frazier, Amy Abattoir, Casey Snyder, Bradley Shoemaker and Holly Patton Shull.

Estomin, who teaches photography and digital art, will exhibit photographs from her "Landscapes of the Mind" series. Estomin is a videographer, photographer and interactive media artist who creates art that speaks to social issues. As an artist who deals with political subjects, she is interested in human stories and what they tell us about society. Her images in this exhibition look at the relationship between nature and the environment, and individuality and conformity.

Her award-winning video documentaries have been exhibited at film festivals internationally and broadcast nationally on PBS. Her web art won awards from Adobe Corporation, The Webby Awards, the Canadian Web Association, the Golden Globe Awards and Cool Site of the Day. Her photography and digital images have been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. 

Estomin's work is part of 65 public and private collections. Estomin has received grants and fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Art Matters Inc., Cincinnati Commission on the Arts, Kodak Corporation, Ilford Corporation, Sony Corp., SIGGRAPH, the Luce Foundation and Women's Film Project.

Estomin has a MFA in electronic arts from the University of Cincinnati and a bachelor's degree in film and communications from Antioch College.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Music Department will host pianist Sezi Seskir as part of the Concerts at Noon series on Thursday, Feb. 28, in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The performance is free to the public.

Seskir, visiting assistant professor of music at Bucknell University, will give a lecture recital comparing the expressive nuances of late 18th century and the late 19th century keyboards. The program features works by Bach and Mozart and includes demonstrations and discussions of each instrument's effect on interpretation.

Seskir earned her first degree in piano in Ankara, Turkey. She earned doctorate in music at Cornell University with her research in the use of tempo rubato in Robert Schumann's keyboard music along with historical keyboards and performance practices of the 18th and 19th centuries. She has given guest lectures at Oberlin Conservatory and Trinity College of London.

For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu/music/musicAtLycoming.aspx.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Kristin Guthrie '10 has returned to Lycoming College this semester as an intern in the career services office.

Guthrie, who earned a bachelor's degree in psychology, is pursuing a master's degree in education in counseling and student affairs at Bloomsburg University.

She schedules classroom presentations and discussions with students on topics such as career services, resume writing skills, cover letters and graduate school applications. She also hosts a resume review session each Wednesday night. 

 "What attracted me to Lycoming College as an undergraduate was the small, intimate campus setting where students are able to interact with faculty and staff at an individual level," Guthrie said. "When I was asked to determine a placement for my internship requirement, I knew that Lycoming College was where I would like to intern, mostly for the same reasons. The small, private college setting would allow me to interact with many professionals within the student affairs field and gain exposure not only to career services and counseling, but also the other divisions within the college and to see how they interact with one another."

Guthrie has also volunteered at Bloomsburg's Career Development Center. "My interest in career services has evolved out of an interest in both student development and career development," she said.

Guthrie is running a program designed for freshmen and sophomores that focuses on career planning. The program consists of four workshops where students will explore different career options through self-assessment in the hopes of finding a career best suited to their personal values, interests and skills. Open workshops are offered once a week for all students that focus on resume and cover letter building skills. Finally, Guthrie is helping to plan and organize "Life After Lyco," a street fair for graduating seniors to learn about the transition from college to either work or graduate school.

"My goal while I am at Lycoming is to be able to reach out to as many students as possible and make them aware of the valuable resources that the College has to offer them," she said.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu. 

The Lycoming College Art Department's Art Show "Speak for Me (ventriloquist)," an exhibit by Jackie Milad, opened Feb. 21 in the College's Art Gallery in the Snowden Library. The show will run through March 28.

Milad's drawings explore the comprehension of facial expressions and body language – as well as expose awkward moments of long silences, uncomfortable eye contact and uneasy proximity. Although two-dimensional, the project intentionally references theatrical accouterments, including costumes and dramatic lighting.

In 2005, she earned a master's of fine arts degree from Towson University in Maryland with a competitive graduate fellowship, and in 2000 she earned a bachelor of fine arts from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu. 

The Lycoming College Theatre Department's Emerald City Players will perform "A World of Many Tales," this spring at various locations. The show will be directed by Tiffany Towns, visiting theatre professor and costume designer, who wrote the piece while she was a graduate student.

Lycoming students Jamie Pawlick, a senior majoring in English-creative writing, is the costume designer; Paul Sweet, a freshman undeclared major, is the set designer; and Jonathan Bartholomew, a junior music major, is the technical director and props master. Student performers are Zachary Campbell, freshman undeclared major; Nathan Kaczmarek, freshman theatre major; Alyssa Allen, senior psychology major; Jessica Mosiniak, freshman undeclared major; and Taylor Granger, sophomore theatre major.

Towns said the show is about cultural diversity, containing traditional tales from the Mi'kmaq tribe and Africa with the goal of teaching children about hard work, confidence and courage.

The Emerald City Players, created in 1994 by the late theatre professor and costume designer Jerry Allen, is a group of theatre students who travel to perform children's shows in local schools. This year's show will be held in several locations, including Stevens and Hepburn-Lycoming elementary schools and the James V. Brown Library.

New this semester will be public performances of "A World of Many Tales" at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 16 in the College's Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The performances are free and open to the community. The players are partnering with Lycoming's education department to develop this project for the schools.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu. 

Lycoming College will host a Math and Science Saturday for high school sophomores and juniors on March 23 beginning at 9:30 a.m. The open house offers prospective students and their families an opportunity to explore the College's biology, chemistry, astronomy and physics, and mathematics departments, as well as special programs, such as pre-medicine.

Guests will be offered personalized tours of Lycoming's science and math facilities. In addition, they may attend up to three of seven programs being offered: Choosing a Health Profession; Clean Air, Clean Water and the Environment; Biology … A World of Possibilities; Chemistry … The Central Science; Astronomy & Physics … The Final Frontier; Mastering Mathematical Science … Calculating the Control of Your Future; and The Out of Classroom Experience.

For more information or to register for Math and Science Saturday, please contact the Admissions Office at 570-321-4026 or visit www.lycoming.edu/admissions.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Dr. Sandra Kingery, professor of Spanish at Lycoming College, has been accepted into a two-week residency program at the Nida School of Translation Studies at Misano Adriatico (Rimini), Italy. The theme of this year's session is "Translation, Gender and Culture."

During the program, scheduled for May 20-31, Kingery will analyze the translation of gender-neutral nouns from English to Spanish. According to Kingery, there is a perception that "non-feminist" translation strategies are neutral, while feminist strategies are considered biased. Her case-study will focus on two translations – by Jorge Luis Borges and Enrique Ortenbach – of Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

The Nida School of Translation Studies brings together experts from translation studies, religious discourse translation, and other cognate disciplines to explore translation theory and research across a wide variety of professions and academic fields.

Kingery's publications focus particularly on Ana Maria Moix's novels and short stories, but also include studies of Esther Tusquets and Rosa Chacel. Her translation of Moix's first novel, Julia, was published with the University of Nebraska Press and her translation of Moix's most recent book of short stories, Of My Real Life I Know Nothing, was published by Latin American Literary Review Press. Some of her research and teaching interests include literature from post-Civil War Spain, women's literature and translation. Kingery also has translated a number of philosophical texts by Daniel Innerarity, including The Future and Its Enemies.

Kingery earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and political science at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. After studying at the University of Barcelona for a year, she completed a master's degree and doctorate in Spanish literature at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Kingery has lived in various regions of Spain and traveled extensively in Latin America.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College art instructor Kathy Sterngold was chosen as this year's artist to create the commemorative bowls for the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank's "Soup and a Bowl" events in Williamsport and Harrisburg. Sterngold's handcrafted stoneware bowls will be sold to help fight hunger in Central Pennsylvania. The fundraisers will be held on Friday, Feb. 22 in Williamsport and March 11 in Harrisburg.

Sterngold, who teaches ceramics classes, studied pottery at Kutztown and Alfred universities. After graduating, she joined The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, one of the nation's leading clay art cooperatives. A few years later, Sterngold returned to Muncy to set up her own studio.

Each spring, Sterngold and her ceramics students donate bowls to the Food Bank to support its mission of "fighting hunger, improving lives and strengthening communities." This year, Sterngold is honored that she can contribute even more by creating a unique line of bowls that display the Food Bank's mission and logo.

Sterngold is represented by Patinaz in Williamsport and by The Eagles Mere Art Gallery, a partnership of 10 regional artists. Her pottery has been exhibited at the Packwood House Museum, the Radius Art Gallery at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen Studio in Bushkill Falls. She has participated in dozens of juried shows, including the Festival of the Arts in State College and the Muncy Historical Society Invitational. Each fall, Sterngold exhibits her new works at the Lycoming College Art Faculty Show.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Dr. Marisa Macy, assistant professor of education at Lycoming College, has co-authored a book about improving services for young children with disabilities. The book, "Developmental Screening in Your Community: An Integrated Approach for Connecting Children to Services," is available now at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.

According to Macy, the professionals who work with young children cite early detection of developmental delays as vital so programs and providers can coordinate their screening. The authors – which also include Drs. Diane Bricker, Jane Squires and Kevin Marks – write that integrated, community-wide screening and early detection/child find systems are important – and this is the first book with the systematic, big-picture guidance and specific information to develop a new system or strengthen and refine an existing system.

Developed by early childhood, medical and social service experts in screening and assessment, this groundbreaking book helps establish an effective early detection system that's comprehensive and low-cost; encourages close collaboration among health, social service and educational agencies; and meets each child's whole continuum of needs, from universal screening to community services.

Macy's teaching background is in the area of special education and early childhood special education. She earned both her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Oregon.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College professor of archaeology and Judaic studies, Dr. Pamela Gaber, recently presented a paper at the Archaeological Institute of America's annual meeting Jan. 3-6 in Seattle, Wash. She also was a visiting lecturer in January at the University of California Los Angeles' Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

She also attended the British Museum's special viewing of the newly installed Cypriote gallery in London, which includes materials from the College's archaeology field school site of Idalion, Cyprus. For the past two years, Gaber has been a consultant on the installation of the exhibition. She also presented the lecture, "Regionalism in Late Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus" at the University of Oxford before leading a tour of the Cypriote galleries at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College has been named to this year's Top 100 Organizations list by the editorial board of Pennsylvania Business Central Magazine and will be profiled in the Feb. 22 issue.

Nominations were taken from throughout the publication's 20-county coverage area with more than 65,000 eligible candidates, and the final honorees were businesses that achieved a level of excellence, and had a positive impact on the region in 2012, according to David N. Wells, magazine publisher. 

"Lycoming College is always honored to be recognized for its efforts in the Williamsport community and throughout the region," said Jerry Rashid, director of college relations. "We have great students, faculty and staff who all strive to make Lycoming College a wonderful place."

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College students in Dr. Rebecca Gilbertson's biological psychology class are getting hands-on lab experience thanks to a grant from the George I. Alden Trust. The grant money was used to update the laboratory space and buy new equipment so students can conduct behavioral neuroscience research.

Gilbertson said the renovated biopsychology lab gives her students the ability to do research that they couldn't do before. "This is now a teaching and research space," she said about the lab, which combines state-of-the-art research equipment with technology used for instructing students.

During a recent class, students conducted an experiment in which adolescent rats were given alcohol in a sugar solution. The students then tested the animals as adults to see whether the earlier exposure increased alcohol consumption in the adult animals. Other class experiments include conducting exercises with earthworms to measure nervous system function.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Education Department hosted Robert Grantier, superintendent of Loyalsock Township School District, on Feb. 6. He spoke with education students about professional conduct and ethical behavior in the field of education.

"Every kid deserves to be treated well," Grantier told the students. He also discussed treating all children equitably, regardless of any differences they may have. Grantier reminded the teaching candidates that teachers are role models and can have a lifelong influence on children.

"You are going to make mistakes," he said. "But part of being professional is that you have the backbone to take responsibility for them." Grantier also told the teaching candidates that anywhere they go in public, they are an educator, and they are expected to uphold professional conduct. 

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department's Art Show "Speak for Me (ventriloquist)," an exhibit by Jackie Milad, opened Feb. 21 in the College's Art Gallery in the Snowden Library. The show will run through March 28.

Milad's drawings explore the comprehension of facial expressions and body language – as well as expose awkward moments of long silences, uncomfortable eye contact and uneasy proximity. Although two-dimensional, the project intentionally references theatrical accouterments, including costumes and dramatic lighting.

In 2005, she earned a master's of fine arts degree from Towson University in Maryland with a competitive graduate fellowship, and in 2000 she earned a bachelor of fine arts from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Tour Choir will hold several concerts in central and eastern Pennsylvania before traveling to Puerto Rico for a tour in March.

Upcoming performances include 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Muncy United Methodist Church; 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at First Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg; and 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at Grace Covenant Community Church, Middleburg. Additional concerts are scheduled in St. Marys, Pittsburgh and Basking Ridge, N.J., before the choir heads to Puerto Rico.

A homecoming concert is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, at 8 p.m. in the College's Clarke Chapel. The tour choir's full schedule is available at www.lycoming.edu/choir.

Conducted by Dr. Fred Thayer, the choir has been widely acclaimed as one of the finest college musical groups in the East, with repertoire consisting of both religious and secular music that ranges from contemporary to traditional.

Since its inception in 1947 by Walter McIver, the Choir has presented concerts in every state east of the Mississippi River, as well as California, Texas, Louisiana, Canada, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Europe. Foreign tours occur approximately every three years.

The tour choir is selected each year by competitive audition from the 105-voice College Choir, which is comprised of students from all academic fields. Forty students are chosen annually to perform in two weekend tours and a 10-day spring break tour.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will host two events about community supported agriculture presented by Lara Judson of Walnut Run Farms in Nippenose Valley.

Community supported agriculture is an arrangement between a farmer and the customer. The customer buys part of the farmer's harvest in advance and receives their share as the crops become available. CSA allows the farmer to grow the right amount of crops needed for the season and for the customer to receive the freshest produce possible.

The events will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 26, and 1 p.m. Monday, March 25, in Heim Building G-09. Both events are open to the public. Reservations are required and may be made by contacting Amy Dowling, director of alumni relations, at 570-321-4134 or via email at dowling@lycoming.edu.

Walnut Run Farm is a multi-generational family farm that raises about 40 different vegetable and herb crops, as well as cut flowers and lamb.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Multicultural Awareness Group of Lycoming College will hold its 16th annual International Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Jane Schultz Room.

This year's theme is "Spread Love Around the World." As guests enter the room, they will be given a paper heart that they can write a message on and post on the wall. Students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Chile, China, Estonia, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Vietnam will host the dinner, with the guidance of Jean Wool, executive assistant for student affairs and MAG adviser.

As a tradition, international students and foreign faculties will prepare dishes from their countries. A silent auction will be held with the proceeds benefiting "A Dime for a Meal," a charity program that raises money to provide food and cooking services for Vietnamese children.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Art Department will host "Speak for Me (ventriloquist)," an exhibit by Jackie Milad, in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library Feb. 21-March 28. A reception and gallery talk will be held from 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21.

Milad's drawings explore the comprehension of facial expressions and body language – as well as expose awkward moments of long silences, uncomfortable eye contact and uneasy proximity. Although two-dimensional, the project intentionally references theatrical accouterments, including costumes and dramatic lighting.

Milad has exhibited internationally and nationally in such places such as The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; Gallery 32 as part of the London Biennale; Delaware Center of Contemporary Art in Wilmington; Museum of Fine Arts in Mazatlan, Mexico; and Galeria del Jovenes in Culiacan, Mexico.

In 2005, she earned a master's of fine arts degree from Towson University in Maryland with a competitive graduate fellowship, and in 2000 she earned a bachelor of fine arts from Tufts University and the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Massachusetts.

In 1998, Milad studied painting at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy. She is program coordinator and curator for the Stamp Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park. In 2010, Milad was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.

For more information, visit http://www.lycoming.edu/art/CurrentGalleryShows.html.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's Snowden Library will hold its ninth annual Read-In featuring W. Bruce Cameron's "A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans" from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23.

Several campus groups and organizations will participate in the event. Each group of students will collect donations and read aloud from the book for one hour by the fireplace in the library at different intervals throughout the day. Refreshments will be provided by the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

All donations will benefit the Lycoming County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Its rigorous academic program, vibrant residential community and supportive faculty foster successful student outcomes. Lycoming offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812 and located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The latest edition of "Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature" has been released. The journal is edited by founder Dr. Sascha Feinstein, professor of English and creative writing at Lycoming College. Feinstein is also a poet and essayist, as well as the editor of "Ask me Now: Conversations of Jazz & Literature," a compilation of 10 years of "Brilliant Corners" materials.

The 2012 winter issue includes an essay, several poems and an interview with 2002 Fulbright Scholar Afaa Michael Weaver, an American poet, short story writer and editor. He is the author of several poetry collections, including "The Plum Flower Dance" and "Multitudes." His essay, which introduces the majority of poems in the edition, explores the history and form of the "Bop" style of jazz poetry.

Works featured in the issue include a Bop piece, "Annie Pearl's Arethabops," by American poet Patricia Smith, who is a 2008 National Book Award finalist, a four-time National Poetry Slam Champion and the author of six books of poetry. She is a professor at the City University of New York/College of Staten Island.

Evie Shockley, 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize winner, contributes two poems, "double bop for ntozake shange" and "the last temptation: a 21st century bop odyssey." Shockley has four published books of poetry, and her poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, professor of English at Cornell University and National Book Award finalist, appears in the latest edition with her poem, "Bop: The North Star," as does Sean Singer with "Trombone Magic." Singer's first book, "Discography," won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is working on his dissertation in American Studies at Rutgers-Newark, where he teaches English and African American studies.

Cover art was provided by American jazz artist Rollie Erickson, who also contributes an essay on the piece.

Brilliant Corners is published biannually and features jazz-related poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A subscription costs $12 a year ($18 for international orders). Send check or money to Brilliant Corners, Lycoming College, 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701. More information can be found at www.lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners.

Published at Lycoming College, Brilliant Corners is funded in part by Lycoming College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and private endowments.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Jeremiah Johnson, a printmaking instructor at Lycoming College, will present his first solo exhibition, "Never Enough," Feb. 7 -14 in the Kostabi World Gallery Space at 514 W. 24th St., New York City.

Some 20 works on paper, mylar and a series of prints by Johnson skewer the artist's notions about love, relationships, sex and even heaven in an American society that he sees as rapidly coming undone.

My work touches upon a psychedelic aesthetic from the late '60s and early '70s, but what I'm really interested in is the dissemination of information in an overcharged and oversexed world," Johnson said. "In another sense, my work is about survival."

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Lycoming College, along with City Council and the Williamsport Business Association, honored several of the College's Students of the Month for the 2012-13 academic year.

The students were recognized during a reception at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, prior to the 7:30 meeting. The students are:

• September – Jordan Krebs. He is a recipient of the American Society for Microbiology's Undergraduate Research Capstone Program.
• October – Jason Mifsud. He won the Middle Atlantic Conference Individual Tennis Championship.
• November – Alyssa Tomaskovic, a recent graduate. She was selected for her direction and participation in the College's sustainability efforts and for participating in the Sustainability conference: Making Progress — Working on Climate Change in Pennsylvania Higher Education.
• December – Victoria Yuskaitis. She was selected for her participation in the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference coupled with other campus involvements, such as Cru.
• January – Jerald Williams. He was selected for his assist record-setting season for the men's basketball team and for many other contributions to athletics at the College.

All students were submitted to a campus selection committee and chosen by the committee for the Student of the Month honor, according to Dr. Daniel P. Miller, dean of student affairs for the College. This recognition derives from the College's participation with the College Town Committee, under the auspices of the Williamsport Business Association. Students from the College and Pennsylvania College of Technology are recognized for their achievements.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Seth Goodman, assistant professor of art at Lycoming College, will be featured in a national juried exhibition from now through March 9 at The Lockhart Gallery at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

The "Photography as Witness: the charged landscape of the 21st century" exhibition is intended to highlight the challenges and injustices faced in the global community.

Goodman is exhibiting various photographs created during a trip to Southern India in 2009. His work highlights the growing injustice in India and the challenges the Indian people face.  Goodman's trip was funded by Lycoming's Professional Development Fund.

Dr. Ryan Thomas Adams, assistant professor of anthropology at Lycoming College, will exhibit his photographs and video from his fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon from Feb. 7 to 27 in the Digital Communications Gallery. An opening reception for his exhibit, "Santarem Brazil: A Visual Anthropology Exhibit," will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7.

"My ethnographic research seeks to understand the place of large-scale landowners in the area around the city of Santarém in Pará State, Brazil," Adams said. "Santarém lies in the heart of the Amazon, but is a fairly large city, the third-largest in the Amazon with around half a million people. Despite its perception outside Brazil as a pristine rainforest, the region has seen a recent increase in large-scale industrial agriculture and modern agribusiness. As one of the poorest regions of Brazil, people living in the Amazon are concerned about the need to grow the economy and eager for economic growth but many are worried about the impact of this major change on their community."

Adams said the show is an opportunity to explore the role of visual representation of ethnographic research sites. He added that there is a long-standing tradition in anthropology of using photography and more recently video to capture and communicate elements of culture not adequately represented through text alone.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College announces its spring class of student teachers. The following students, pictured from left and listed with their placements, have begun their professional semester through the College's education program.

Top photo, front row: Olivia Gardner at Williamsport Area High School and Cochran Elementary, Ashley Newcomb at South Williamsport Jr./Sr. High School, Nicole Crowe at Myers Elementary, Kristin Tate at Hughesville High School, Trisha Duncan at Williamsport Area High School, Kaycee Kilpatrick at Montoursville Area High School, and Lydia Peifer at South Williamsport Jr./Sr. High School. Back row: Chelsey Lindaberry at Hepburn-Lycoming Elementary and Jersey Shore Area High School, Kimberly Fox at Williamsport Area High School, Jessica Lehman at Hughesville High School, Ryan Smith at Montoursville Area High School, Wesley Strayer at Montoursville Area High School and Curtin Middle School, Robert Van Sciver at Jersey Shore Elementary and Round Hills Elementary, Krystalynn Anderson at Myers Elementary and Lycoming Valley Middle School, Alexis Moser at Hughesville High School and Cochran Elementary, and Melvin Wentzel, supervisor of secondary student teachers.

Bottom photo, front row: Lynnette Sepulveda at Schick Elementary, Jennifer Harbora at Rommelt Elementary, Meagan Mills at Sheridan Elementary, Julie Martinez at Farrell Elementary, Jenna Miller at Hepburn-Lycoming Elementary and Williamsport Area High School, Lindsey Hunsicker at Sheridan Elementary and Curtin Middle School, Kelcie Werner at Lyter Elementary, and Katie Welsh at Salladasburg Elementary. Back row: Christine Dennis at Sheridan Elementary, Katherine Allen at Loyalsock Middle School, Matt Jeffrey at Round Hills Elementary, Andrew Wagner at Schick Elementary, Leeann Randall at Hepburn-Lycoming Elementary and Round Hills Elementary, Shannon Cooke at Farrell Elementary, Jussae Hanford at Lycoming Valley Middle School, and Marlene Cauley, supervisor of elementary and special education student teachers.

First offered in 1955, the education program remains one of Lycoming's most popular courses of study. Lycoming provides its future teachers the breadth and depth of a strong liberal arts education. Students choose an academic major and, with the help of their advisors, follow a carefully planned sequence of professional education courses, enriched by extensive field experiences in nearby schools.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will present "The Vagina Monologues" Feb. 13-16 at 8 p.m. in the Mary L. Welch Theatre. The play, open to the public, contains adult language and situations and is recommended for mature audiences.

"The Vagina Monologues" is inspired by more than 200 interviews conducted by playwright Eve Ensler, who traveled the world asking women from all walks of life about their views on sex, relationships and violence against women. Since the first production in 1996, performances of "The Vagina Monologues" starring Hollywood and Broadway's finest, as well as thousands of amateur actors, have been staged across the U.S. and internationally. Inspired by the play's success, Ensler and others worked to establish V-Day, a global non-profit movement that has raised more than $75 million for women's anti-violence groups.

Directed by N.J. Stanley, associate professor and chair of theatre, the College's production features not only students, but Lycoming faculty and community members as well. This will be the second time the College has presented the play.

The theatre department has dedicated the production to Wise Options, a YWCA organization offering support to victims of domestic and sexual assault. Wise Options will provide information and accept donations in the theatre lobby during performances.

Tickets for the production are free for Lycoming students, faculty and staff. Public ticket prices are $12 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors. A special dinner and a show package will be offered for $18 per person on Feb. 15 in the Jane Shultz Room, Wertz Student Center.Tickets may be reserved by calling the box office at 570-321-4048.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

A group of Lycoming College anthropology students has been selected to participate in the Northeastern Anthropology Association 53rd Annual Meeting, to be held March 1-2, 2013, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. This year's theme is "Applying Anthropology: Challenging Perspectives/Creating Alternatives."

Lycoming students participating include Samuel Clarke, Kesley Conahan, Kaitlyn Gross, Cori Mancuso and Kyle Swovick.

The students, under the direction of Dr. Ryan Adams, assistant professor of anthropology, will present a session on food and culture. As part of a semester-long project, students analyzed the historical, cultural and social context of various dishes. Selections included challah bread, sushi in America, venison, corn in Central America and the U.S., and the birthday cake. The session will report on their findings.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Due to inclement weather, the College is CLOSED Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. 

Dining Services will be open for residential students during regular hours. Please monitor the College's inclement weather page for updates throughout the day on other offices that may be open for part of the day (http://www.lycoming.edu/inclementWeather/).

The staff in Buildings and Grounds will continue to work to clear snow and ice from the campus sidewalks, parking lots and streets throughout the day. Safety and Security also has salt and shovels that individuals with a College ID may use. Please use caution as the forecast is calling for freezing rain throughout most of the morning and early afternoon.

The Lycoming College Music Department will host flutist Pamela Stahel on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. Tickets are $10 at the door.

A native of the Williamsport area, Stahel studied music performance with Bernard Z. Goldberg. After performing with various American orchestras, she relocated to Switzerland, where she is a member of the Zurich Opera Orchestra. Program repertoire will include music for the flute and piano "From Two Hemispheres" with Dr. Gary Boerckel, retired Lycoming professor of music.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Dr. Peter Petokas, research associate at the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute, and the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies (SRHCES) have established a new summer internship program in environmental education at Camp Victory, a camp for special-needs children, near Millville, Pa.

Internships will be funded by the Degenstein Foundation and Petokas will serve as the intern mentor. Two years ago, Petokas and Lycoming biology students Mike Henao, a 2010 graduate, and Brandan Gray, a 2011 graduate, completed an inventory of the plants and animals at Camp Victory. This inventory was used to bolster a grant application to fund a new nature center for the camp.

Current freshmen, sophomores and juniors at SRHCES institutions may apply for the summer internships, and those selected will be offered a stipend, room and board at the 250-acre camp. The camp is especially interested in hosting student interns who enjoy working with special needs children and those with an interest in environmental education.

For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu/cwi/pdfs/Camp%20Victory%20Internship.pdf or email petokas@lycoming.edu. 

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College alumnus Bruce Sawyer will be the guest speaker at the eighth annual Black History Month Dinner on Saturday, Jan. 26, in the College's Wertz Student Center. The event is sponsored by the Black Student Union and Black History Month Committee.

The event begins at 6 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres followed by dinner in the Jane Schultz Room. Cost is $20 per person and reservations may be made by contacting the Office of Alumni Relations at 570-321-4376.

Sawyer, who earned a bachelor's in biology from Lycoming in 1975, is the senior director of global business excellence for Johnson & Johnson's Pharmaceutical Supply Chain organization. His responsibilities include global manufacturing, procurement and external manufacturers, which encompasses more than 9,000 associates and 30 manufacturing locations worldwide. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, where he has held a series of managerial positions, he worked at the Sloan-Kettering Research Institute.

Sawyer and his wife, Marcia, live in Whitehouse Station, N.J., and have two children.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Thirteen Lycoming College students presented papers at the Annual Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies held in December at Moravian College. The interdisciplinary program explored and celebrated the literature, history, art and philosophy of the periods ranging from 500 CE to 1800 CE. The event is one of the nation's few undergraduate conferences focused on humanities and was the first to feature medieval and early modern studies.

Student presenters collaborated with Lycoming faculty Dr. Todd Preston, assistant professor of English, Dr. Cullen Chandler, assistant professor and chair of history, and Dr. Len Cagle, assistant professor of German.

Presentations by students Amber Carnahan, Margaret Daubert, Cassandra Mainiero, Rebecca Peterson, Julie Polcrack, Samantha Siniscalco, Caitlin Tengeres, Benjamin Toth, Lindsay Wagner, Phoebe Wagner, Chelsea Watts, Alyssa Young and Victoria Yuskaitis covered topics such as Anglo-Saxon England, Chaucer and Shakespeare.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department will host "Dance of the Happy Shades," an exhibit by Dennie Eagleson, in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library Jan. 17-Feb. 15. A reception and gallery talk will be held Thursday, Jan. 17, from 4-5:30 p.m.

Eagleson appreciates the transformation of subject matter through low-tech and lens-less cameras. She is a fine art and documentary photographer whose projects have ranged from an extended photographic interaction with Cuba, to an interview and photography project with alternative families utilizing both conventional and plastic lens cameras, to a study made with a pinhole camera on the artifacts left in an abandoned home.

The images in "Dance of the Happy Shades" were made with outdated Polaroid materials. Some are the result of objects placed on the surface of 8x10 color film and exposed as photograms. Others were created using a handmade, wide-angle pinhole camera. Polaroid stopped producing its signature films a number of years ago, and the finite nature of the supply of film makes each exposure precious.

Eagleson is director of the Herndon Gallery at Antioch College in Ohio, where she also has taught photography.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Throughout the fall, faculty members of the Lycoming College Education Department have continued to show their commitment to the field of teaching through new publications, presentations and participation in state teaching organizations.

Drs. Amy Rogers, Marisa Macy and Rachel Hickoff-Cresko, assistant professors of education, published two articles. "Transforming teacher preparation programs to meet the needs of all learners" appeared in "Educational Programs and Special Education: Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives" and "A window of opportunity for quality experiences: Developing partnerships to support pre-professional practicum" was published in "The Pennsylvania Educator."

The three faculty members also delivered several presentations. At Lycoming, their presentation on the Lycoming Education Data Analysis project garnered them a professional development grant from the College.

At the state level, Rogers, Macy and Hickoff-Cresko presented "A window of opportunity for quality field experiences: Developing partnerships to support pre-professional practicum" and "Preparing teachers through reflective inquiry" to the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators in Harrisburg. They also presented "Information literacy skills: How can we teach them?" at the Keystone State Reading Association Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.

Rogers, who also serves as department chair, was elected as a board member representing liberal arts institutions to the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges of Teacher Educators (PAC-TE). In this role, she will represent more than 35 colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. PAC-TE is the unified voice of professional educator preparation in Pennsylvania, devoted solely to the improvement of teacher education or school-based and post-secondary teacher educators.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, and a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Clean Water Institute, in partnership with Pennsylvania College of Technology, will host a free, public showing of the Emmy Award-winning documentary "Green Fire" on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m. at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

The documentary tells the life story of legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental contributions. Leopold is an American author, scientist, ecologist, forester and environmentalist. He has been credited as "the father of wildlife management" and is best known for his book, "Sand County Almanac."

"Green Fire" is the first full-length documentary made about Leopold. The film highlights his career and how he shaped conservation and the modern environmental movement. It also illustrates how Leopold's vision of a community that cares about both people and land continues to inform and inspire people across the country and around the world.

Born and raised in Iowa, Leopold began working for the U.S. Forest Service in 1909 after graduating from the Yale School of Forestry. After working in Arizona and New Mexico, Leopold transferred to Wisconsin in 1924. There, he began teaching wildlife management at the University of Wisconsin and implementing his land ethic on a worn out farm he and his wife purchased. He died in 1948, a year before "Sand County Almanac" was published, but continues to influence foresters, wildlife managers and landowners around the world.

More information on the film, including a trailer, can be found at www.greenfiremovie.com.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's Dr. William Dever, distinguished visiting professor of archaeology, was a featured scholar in "Back to the Beginning," a two-part series that aired on ABC Dec. 21 and 28. During the series, correspondent Christiane Amanpour retraced some of the stories and mysteries of the Bible as she explored places that are common to Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

Each summer, Dever and his wife, Dr. Pamela Gaber, professor of archaeology and Judaic studies at Lycoming, direct the College's archaeological field school in Idalion, Cyprus.

The following are clips from "Back to the Beginning" that feature Dever: 

Joshua and Conquest of Canaan: Looking for Evidence at 3:04, 3:43 and 4:45 

Solomon's Temple: Fabled Sacred Spot for Multiple Faiths at :47 and 5:15 

David, the Bible's First Real Hero at 4:00

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Lycoming College's annual Candlelight Service will be broadcast Dec. 24 and 25 on several local radio stations. The traditional service of lessons and carols was performed by the College's choirs and instrumental ensembles on Dec. 9 in Clarke Chapel. The broadcast dates and times are as follows:

Monday, Dec. 24, 11 a.m.-noon, WRAK (1200 AM, 1400 AM and 94.9 FM)

Tuesday, Dec. 25, 7-8 a.m., WILQ 105.1 FM, WZXR 99.3 FM and OldieZ 93 93.3 FM

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College will welcome violinist Marc Thayer to present a special Concert at Noon in honor of his father, Dr. Fred Thayer, professor of music and director of choirs, on Thursday, Jan. 17, in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. Professor Thayer will retire at the conclusion of the 2012-13 academic year. The concert is free and open to the public.

Marc will be joined by Maryse Carlin, harpsichordist, and Andrew Rammon, cellist. Repertoire will include works by G.F. Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arcangelo Corelli and Franz Biber. Biber is one of the most important composers for the violin whose technique allowed him to reach the sixth and seventh positions with ease, to employ multiple stops in intricate polyphonic passages and to explore the various possibilities of scordatura tuning.

Professor Thayer joined Lycoming's music faculty in 1976. Since then, he has kept an active schedule of teaching and conducting. By May 2013, he will have led the choir on 35 spring break tours and ten overseas trips, and has touched the lives of countless students. An avid composer, he has earned numerous ASCAP Standard Panel Awards and Meet the Composer Grants. Among his compositions for choral ensembles, orchestra and band are a large-scale mass and two operas. His work is published by E.C. Schirmer, Lawson Gould, Bourne Co., Laurendale Associates and Roger Dean Music. For 22 summers, he was the associate conductor of the Gregg Smith Singers at the Adirondack Festival of American Music in Saranac Lake, N.Y. He and his wife, Pat, who taught Suzuki violin for 32 years, have two sons, Jeff, who presented a concert at the College in September, and Marc.

Marc is a member of the Kingsbury Baroque Ensemble and is the director of education for the Association of American Voices, a cultural diplomacy, non-governmental organization with whom he has taught and performed in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza, Thailand, Ghana, Togo and Burma. He is on the strings faculty and the Advisory Council of the Community Music School of Webster University and on the board of the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis. He is also working with the U.S. Department of State to coordinate their cultural touring program, American Music Abroad.

Marc has performed with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach and the ME2 String Orchestra in Burlington, Vt. He served as the vice president of community partnerships for the St. Louis Symphony and conducted St. Louis University's string orchestra. From 2006-11, he was artistic director of the Whim Estate Concerts for the Landmarks Historical Society in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He has worked with the European Festival of Art in Aix-en-Provence, France, the Opera Festival of Heidelberg, Germany, the National Symphony of Bolivia, the National Symphony of Ghana, the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra, and the Orquesta Superior of Córdoba, Spain. He earned a bachelor's and master's in music at the Eastman School of Music.

Carlin has performed internationally as a pianist and harpsichordist. She lives in St. Louis, where she directs the Kingsbury Ensemble, one of the premiere early music groups in the Midwest, and teaches at Washington University. Carlin is the founder of the "Festival de Musique Ancienne" in Saint Savin, France.

Rammon, an instructor of music at Lycoming, was raised in a family of American musicians in Germany. He began his formal studies at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule while in high school, and continued at Pepperdine University and The Cleveland Institute of Music. Rammon is the 'cellist of the Grammy-nominated Eaken Piano Trio. While living in Los Angeles, he appeared in Steven Spielberg's "Amistad" and in a music video by Sean (P. Diddy) Combs. During the summer, he performs and teaches in Heidelberg, Germany, as part of Pepperdine University's summer music program. He also maintains a private studio of 'cello students in Williamsport.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Lycoming College's production of "The Threepenny Opera" was awarded four certificates of merit from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

KCACTF is a national theatre program dedicated to the improvement of collegiate theatre in the United States. The KCACTF respondent who viewed Lycoming's production recognized special achievement in the following areas:

Direction by Dr. N. J. Stanley, associate professor and chair of theatre
Costume design by Tiffany Towns, assistant professor
Scenic and lighting design by Jathan Innerarity, assistant professor
Stage management by Elle Ingarra, senior theatre major

"Being a part of 'The Threepenny Opera' was an experience I will never forget," said Ingarra. "We all worked so hard to create an amazing production and I was so sad for it to end. It was an amazing honor to receive this recognition. I was so lucky to be a part of a production that has made such a large impact on the Lycoming community. It was a privilege working with so many talented people and I am so happy with the reaction that everyone had towards the show!"

"The Threepenny Opera" was presented by Lycoming's theatre and music departments Nov. 14-17. An adaptation of 18th century writer John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera," the dark, satirical musical is set in 1837 London, just days before Queen Victoria's coronation. The plot follows Mack the Knife, an infamous criminal of the London underworld, as he hides from the law until his eventual capture.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Dr. Richard Hughes, Lycoming College M.B. Rich professor of religion, recently completed his ninth book, "Religion, Law and the Present Water Crisis." Published by Peter Lang Publishing Inc., copies  are available for pre-order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other authorized sellers.

In the new work, Hughes documents the global water crisis, opposing the commodification and private ownership of water by multinational companies. The book views water as a symbol of the sacred and further asserts that all bodies of freshwater are common and should be protected by the public trust doctrine. Hughes synthesizes water studies from religions, theologies and law doctrines from around the world in order to push the necessity of clean water for all people.

Hughes has taught courses in theology, ethics, comparative religions and existential studies. He has published numerous books and essays on theology, biblical studies, depth psychology, ethics and law. Hughes, who earned a doctorate from Boston University, has traveled, written, studied and taught across the globe, including serving in churches, prisons and hospitals throughout the U.S. He has also received academic awards for research projects from the Louisville Institute/Lilly Endowment and the Szondi Foundation of Switzerland.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Three Lycoming College students have been chosen to be a part of the 66^thannual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival, to be held March 15-17 at Mansfield University.

Receiving the honor are Andrea Burleigh, a sophomore English major of Pleasant Mount, Pa., on trombone; Natalie Schwer, a sophomore biology major of Saint Marys, Pa., on trumpet; and Kelly Ciesla, a junior art and music double-major of East Hampton, N.J., on bass clarinet.

The 66^th annual festival will be conducted by Lt. Col. Alan Bonner, retired United States Air Force.

 Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – The Lycoming College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid is collecting toys for the Lycoming County Toys for Tots campaign. This is the 13th consecutive year Lycoming has participated in the program.

When the College began accepting donations in 1999, it received a total of 33 toys. Last year, the admission office collected more than 730 items for the local Marine Corps Reserve, which distributed the toys to less fortunate children in the Williamsport area.

Donations may be dropped at the Drum Admissions House, on the corner of Washington Boulevard and College Place, from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, through Dec. 17.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Greatly surpassing 2011's record 730 donations, Lycoming College's annual Toys for Tots drive brought in more than 1,200 items for the Lycoming County Toys for Tots campaign. For the 13th consecutive year, the College's Office of Admissions and Financial Aid coordinated the event with the support of faculty, staff and students.

When the office began collecting donations in 1999, it received a total of 33 toys. This year's donations increased by more than 500 toys over any previous year.

All of the toys from the College have been sent to local charities, which will distribute them to less fortunate children in the Williamsport area.

Now in its 65th year, Toys for Tots is a program of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and collects new, unwrapped toys in October, November and December each year, according to the Toys for Tots website. The gifts are then distributed as holiday gifts to less fortunate children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College theatre and music departments, will present Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" Nov. 14-17 in the Mary L. Welch Theatre. All shows begin at 8 p.m. and are open to the public.

"The Threepenny Opera" is directed by Dr. N. J. Stanley, professor of theatre, with music direction from Dr. Gary M. Boerckel, former professor of music. The cast, crew and pit is comprised of Lycoming students.  The musical contains adult language and situations and is therefore recommended for mature audiences.

"The Threepenny Opera" is an adaptation of 18th century writer John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera." The dark, satirical musical is set in 1837 London, just days before Queen Victoria's coronation. The plot follows Mack the Knife, the infamous criminal of the London underworld, as he thieves and hides from the law until his eventual capture. The story remains disturbingly relevant today, commenting on the corrupt nature of beggars, thieves, murderers and whores, and modern morality.

"Brecht believed in the theatre's power to educate and serve as a vehicle for social change, so he created techniques to disrupt the audience's absorption in the world of the play," says Stanley. "He wanted the audience to think about the play's ideas and to do something to make the world better after they leave the theatre. Actors speak directly to the audience; the action takes place all over the theatre, not just onstage; and nothing is hidden—the audience can see everything happening backstage as well as onstage."

Tickets for the production are free for Lycoming students, faculty and staff. Public ticket prices are $12 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors. Dinner and a Show tickets for Friday, Nov. 16, are also available for $18 per person. Tickets may be reserved by calling the box office at 570-321-4048.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will host a talk and performance titled "A River Blue: Together toward Recovery in Northern Uganda" on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event, sponsored by the office of the dean of student affairs and the department of political science, is free and open to the public.

A River Blue (www.ariverblue.org) is a community-based, non-governmental organization that supports vulnerable children and youth in Northern Uganda affected by war and HIV/AIDS pandemics. During the program, the uplifting story of A River Blue will be told by native Ugandans, Okweny George Ongom, the project's field director, as well as musicians Ekuka Morris on thumb piano and Owello Bartholomew on Lango singing drum.

Initiated and founded by Barefoot Workshops (www.barefootworkshops.org), a New York-based nonprofit, A River Blue aims to provide educational opportunities for children and youth, together with appropriate skills training, and to aid with nutritional and medical needs. It also focuses on raising awareness of issues involving health and psychosocial therapy of the highly traumatized people in the war-ravaged area.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Office of Career Services and Multicultural Awareness Group are teaming up to organize several events in celebration of international cultures at the College.

An International Expo, in recognition of International Education Week, will be held Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 3-5 p.m. in Burchfield Lounge, Wertz Student Center. International and study abroad students from the College will represent their respective countries with displays, food and activities related to the nation's culture. More than 15 countries will be represented.

An International Coffee and Games Night will be held Monday, Nov. 26, from 7-9 p.m. in Burchfield Lounge. Peace Corps and AmeriCorps representatives will be in attendance for recruiting purposes and to answer questions regarding their programs.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will hold public auditions for "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler on Sunday, Nov. 18, from 7-10 p.m. in the College's Mary L. Welch Theatre.

Individuals can reserve a five-minute time slot by emailing mcnamee@lycoming.edu. A prepared, but not necessarily memorized, two-minute monologue is required. The monologue can be excerpted from plays, movies, novels or any published source. Those auditioning should arrive before their designated time to complete an audition form.

Callbacks will be held on Monday, Nov. 19, from 7-10 p.m.

Performance dates for "The Vagina Monologues" are Feb. 13-16, 2013. A read-through will be slated for late November, and rehearsals will begin mid-January.

For more information, call the Lycoming College Theatre Department at 321-4024.

Lycoming College alumni and prospective students alike contributed to the effort to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy by collecting donations for New Jersey residents affected by the disaster.

Nicole Caucino '05 and Lara (Collins) Breon '04 spearheaded the effort to gather toiletries, clothes, food, water and other supplies for those in need. They accepted donations at the American Red Cross and Novitas Solutions parking lots in Williamsport, where the items were sorted, packed and sent to Toms River, N.J.

The College's admissions office also aided the drive during it's Nov. 10 open house by offering to waive the application fee for prospective students who brought donations. Those who contributed were also given a Lycoming souvenir.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Six students from the Lycoming College Sustainability Committee attended a conference, titled "Making Progress – Working on Climate Change in Pennsylvania Higher Education,"  at Susquehanna University on Nov. 2. The event was organized by the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC). Information was presented on how Pennsylvania colleges and universities are conducting energy audits and implementing energy efficient technology.

In attendance were seniors Kyle Shakespeare, Alyssa Tomaskovic and Laura Walter and juniors Chelsea Brewer, Cody Giles and Samantha Hewitt. They were accompanied by Dr. Mel Zimmerman, professor of biology and director of the Clean Water Institute, and Dr. Neil Boyd, associate professor of management and chair of business administration.

In 2009, a grant program coordinated by PERC was used to develop Lycoming's solar energy project. Since then, the College has also established a sustainability minor, biodiesel project and campus-wide sustainability committee.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Board of Trustees has selected Dr. Kent C. Trachte as the College's 15^th president, effective July 1, 2013. He is dean of the College at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. Trachte succeeds Dr. James E. Douthat, who will retire in June after nearly a quarter-century at the helm of the College. The appointment was announced by Peter Lynn, board chair.

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"We welcome Dr. Trachte to the presidency of Lycoming College," Lynn said. "His deep understanding and belief in the benefits and importance of a liberal arts and sciences education have prepared him well to lead Lycoming. He has a proven ability to translate the mission and vision of an institution into both strategic and effective actions. The members of the board look forward to working with him as he leads the College community in ways to further enhance the College's mission, reputation and service to its students. We also extend a very warm welcome to Dr. Trachte's wife, Dr. Sharon Trachte."

"I am humbled and honored by my selection as the 15^th president of Lycoming College," Trachte said. "I look forward to building upon the leadership of President Douthat and his many accomplishments during the past 24 years. Lycoming College can approach the next phase of its history from a position of strength that lies in the excellence of its students, the distinction of its faculty, the dedication of its administrative staff and alumni, the commitment of its board of trustees and the prudence with which its finances have been managed. I anticipate deepening the educational excellence embodied in the 'Lyco' experience and moving the College toward even greater recognition."

Trachte earned a B.A. in government from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in international relations from the University of Kentucky and a Ph.D. in political science from Binghamton University. He taught political science at several institutions prior to being named dean of freshmen at Franklin and Marshall College. As dean of freshmen, he collaborated with members of the faculty to create a highly successful first-year residential seminar program. In 2003, Trachte became dean of the College. During his term as dean, he worked with faculty, students and administrative colleagues to build F and M's distinctive College House System, promote internationalization of the campus, and deepen and extend the College's commitment to civic engagement.

Trachte has also led initiatives that have helped Franklin & Marshall become a more diverse and inclusive campus, including serving as liaison to the Posse Foundation. He also oversaw greater integration of athletics and recreation into the fabric of campus life. Finally, he raised major gifts in support of the College House Commons, athletic facilities, summer study abroad, a leadership program, and F and M's Life After College Success Program.

Trachte and his wife, who holds a Ph.D. in French literature, have one son. He and his wife live in New York state, where he practices law.

Lynn, a 1969 Lycoming alumnus, praised the work of those involved in the search process. The 16-person search committee was comprised of trustees, faculty, staff, students and alumni. It recommended four final candidates to the board of trustees, after concluding its review of a nationwide pool of more than 80 applicants.

Lynn also expressed the board's gratitude for President Douthat's service to the College. During his tenure, Lycoming's academic profile was raised to that of a national liberal arts and sciences college, and its overall financial position was significantly strengthened, as illustrated by the growth of the endowment from less than $19 million to $165 million. He also praised Emily Douthat as a committed partner and an exemplary volunteer on behalf of the College.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News and World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will hold its 37th annual Candlelight Service of lessons and carols Sunday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m. in Clarke Chapel. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and a musical prelude will begin at 6:30 p.m. The event, organized by United Campus Ministries, is free and open to the public.

The service is a popular College tradition during the Advent season. The lessons will be led by Lycoming students, faculty and staff. The service will include performances by the College's woodwind and brass ensembles, choir and chamber choir.

The College's first Christmas service was organized in 1975 by Father John Tamalis, Catholic chaplain, to celebrate the Christmas season with the students of Lycoming through a traditional Catholic Mass.

In future years, with the help of Jack Buckle, former dean of students, Tamalis decided to develop the Catholic celebration into an ecumenical service that would be enjoyed by the entire College. They included all faith traditions so the season could be observed in a prayerful way, transforming the Candlelight Service into a festival of lessons and carols.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, and a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department will host an exhibit featuring new artwork from Lycoming faculty in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library Nov. 29-Dec. 15. A reception and gallery talk will be held Thursday, Nov. 29, from 4-5:50 p.m.

Exhibiting faculty include David Burke, Michael Darough, Lynn Estomin, Seth Goodman, Jay, Innerarity, Jeremiah Johnson, Kathy Sterngold and Howard Tran.

Among the many works on display will be Estomin's "Passion Into Art," which incorporates web design, graphic design and photography. Estomin, professor of art, is a videographer, photographer and interactive media artist whose art deals with gender, social issues and the environment.

Goodman, assistant professor of art, will display his oil on wood piece, "It's a Matter of Taste." The piece is the product of creative research done during a two-month artist residency at Takt Berlin.

Innerarity, visiting professor of theatre, will exhibit "The Boxed Heart #43." The work is part of his Heart Collection, which he began in 2005 as he transitioned to civilian life after serving six years as a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army. The Heart Collection represents the artist's state as he learned to live with post-traumatic stress disorder, and is formed from a variety of media such as oil, pastel, bronze and porcelain.

Johnson, printmaking instructor at the College, will show "Private Property," a piece incorporating acrylic, dirt and found images on wood. The piece, as well as others in the series, raises the question of land ownership and property possession in Pennsylvania, relying heavily on collage and various printmaking techniques.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Jazz Ensemble will host on concert on Friday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. in the College's Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Under the direction of Dr. William Ciabattari, assistant professor of music, the ensemble will perform jazz standards by Ellington, Porter, Gershwin and others.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Concert Band will perform on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in Clarke Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Directed by Dr. William Ciabattari, assistant professor of music, the band will perform pieces by Eric Whitacre, David Holsinger, Vincent Pershichetti and Claude T. Smith. Senior Bryan Stillman will be featured in Smith's "Fantasia" for alto saxophone.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's Snowden Library will host its annual "Snowden 'til 2" event Friday, Dec. 7, at 9 p.m.

In preparation for finals, to be held Dec. 10-13, the event includes review sessions with professors and Academic Resource Center tutors, relaxation activities and free refreshments.

This year, 19 faculty members and eight tutors will be on hand to assist the more than 500 students expected to attend.

The event is co-sponsored by the library and the offices of the provost, dean of student affairs and assistant dean for freshman.

Lycoming College is a four-year residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful student outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College has planned a variety of activities in celebration of its annual Homecoming and Reunion Weekend Oct 19-21.

Events begin Friday with the annual Thomas B. Croyle '70 Memorial Golf Tournament at 10:30 a.m. at the White Deer Golf Course in Montgomery. At 1 p.m., Professor Amy Golahny will lead a Sculpture and Stained Glass Walking Tour through downtown Williamsport.

The Class of 1962 50^th Reunion Dinner will be held at 33 East on Third Street at 6 p.m. The Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Recreation Center. This year's inductees include Michael Bonnes '01, men's lacrosse; Sean Cullen '07, wrestling; Tim Deasey '02, football; Keith Jenkins '99, football; Morgan Mantle '07, softball; Seneca Reilly '05, volleyball; and Tommy Wesner '04, men's basketball.

The third annual Beer & Pretzel Tent, featuring Tröegs beer and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, will be open from 7:30-10:30 p.m. on the College's Upper Quad.

On Saturday, registration and a welcome reception will take place from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Burchfield Lounge, Wertz Student Center. An open house in the College Archives, Academic Center, will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Lycoming's Alumni Association Executive Board will host a 5K Run/Walk beginning at 9 a.m.

The annual Alumni Brunch and Awards Presentation will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Jane Schulz Room, Wertz Student Center. This year's honorees are Lauren L. Lawson-Zilai '99, Taunia Oechslin Young Alumnus Award; Dr. John E. Mathinsen '70, Outstanding Achievement Award; Gary R. Spies '72, Dale V. Bower Service Award; and Charles D. Springman '59, Angela R. Kyte Outstanding Alumnus Award.

A bronze bust of Frank Girardi, Lycoming's legendary football coach who retired in 2007 after 36 years of service, will be unveiled during a ceremony at noon at the Shangraw Athletic Complex.

The homecoming parade will begin at 12:20 p.m. The route travels through campus and Brandon Park before concluding at David Person Field, where the Warrior football team will host Widener at 1:30 p.m. A post-game reception will celebrate the dedication of Girardi's bust and the new Field Turf at David Person Field.

The Warrior soccer teams will host Arcadia at the Shangraw Athletic Complex. The men play at noon followed by the women at 2:30 p.m. The volleyball team will host a tri-match in Lamade Gym at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

An all-alumni social hour will be held from 5-7 p.m. at DiSalvo's restaurant on Fourth Street, and an all-alumni gathering is planned at the Old Corner Hotel on Court Street from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.

On Sunday, a champagne brunch will be held in honor of Dr. Fred Thayer, professor of music and director of choral activities, who is retiring at the end of the academic year after more than 35 years of service at the College.

Additional events are listed at www.lycoming.edu/alumni/homecoming. Many require advanced registration. For more information, contact Lycoming's Office of Alumni Relations at (570) 321-4376.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College Career Services will host a Graduate and Professional School Fair on Monday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Pennington Lounge of the College's Academic Center. The event is free and open to the public.

Representatives from colleges and universities offering graduate and professional programs will be on hand to discuss their specific programs. Approximately 30 schools from the U.S. and overseas will be represented, including Edinboro University, Farleigh Dickinson University, Lock Haven University, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, the University of Scranton and many more. 

"Lycoming's past graduate school fairs have been positively received by our students, as well as those from surrounding colleges and universities," says MaryJo Campana, director of career services. "Due to their overwhelming success, we have decided to carry on the tradition. It is a win-win situation for students as well as recruiters; they report it to be a most productive day."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Dr. Sascha Feinstein, professor of English at Lycoming College, recently released his second collection of poetry, "Ajanta's Ledge." A book-signing will be held at Otto's bookstore in downtown Williamsport on Friday, Oct. 5, from 5-8 p.m. Copies are also available at the College's Streeter Campus Store.

"Ajanta's Ledge" revisits many of Feinstein's greatest passions, including family, travel and jazz. Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky calls the book "A surge of joy in art . . . wide-ranging, heartfelt and beautifully made." The press has nominated "Ajanta's Ledge" for a Pulitzer Prize, a gesture that Feinstein calls "ridiculous in terms of practicality but very flattering and humbling."

The title poem, a crown of sonnets, celebrates the Ajanta caves in India, where Feinstein and his wife visited in 1999. The longest poem in the book, "Everything Happens to Me, 1965," is a series of dramatic monologues, also in sonnet form, spoken by famous alto saxophonists in that year.

Feinstein, who has worked at the College since 1995, is a poet, essayist and editor. His first collection of poetry, "Misterioso," won the Hayden Carruth Award. His poems have appeared in such publications as "American Poetry Review," "The Georgia Review," "The Missouri Review," and "North American Review," as well as various anthologies including "American Poetry: The Next Generation," "The Penguin Book of the Sonnet" and "Poets Against the War."

His other books include a memoir, "Black Pearls: Improvisations on a Lost Year;" a collection of interviews, "Ask Me Now: Conversations on Jazz & Literature;" and two related scholarly books, "Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present" and "A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry."

Feinstein's essays have appeared in numerous publications, and he has written liner notes for albums by John Tchicai and Lynn Baker, and program notes for Jazz at Lincoln Center. He writes regularly for "JAZZIZ" magazine. He founded "Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature" in 1996, and has also co-edited four books: "The Jazz Poetry Anthology," "The Second Set," "The Jazz Fiction Anthology" and "Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club."

In 2008, he received the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Artist of the Year. Since 2006, he has hosted Jazz Standards on WVIA, the NPR station for central Pennsylvania. An amateur saxophonist, he enjoys performing at local venues.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will host Dr. David L. Holmes, author and professor of religious studies emeritus at the College of William and Mary, for a free public lecture, titled "God and the White House: Religion and the Presidency in American History," on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at 6:30 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. During his two-day visit to Lycoming, Holmes also plans to speak at a variety of courses in history, political science and religion.

At the lecture, Holmes will discuss his new book, "The Faith of the Postwar Presidents." His earlier work, "The Faiths of the Founding Fathers," was an acclaimed look at the spiritual beliefs of such iconic Americans as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and established Holmes as a measured voice in the heated debate over the new nation's religious underpinnings. With the same judicious approach, Holmes' new book looks at the role of faith in the lives of the 12 presidents who have served since the end of World War II.

Holmes examines not only the beliefs professed by each president but also the variety of possible influences on their religious faith, such as their upbringing, education and the faith of their spouse. In each profile, close observers such as clergy, family members, friends and advisors recall churchgoing habits, notable displays of faith, or lack of it, and the influence of their faiths on policies concerning abortion, the death penalty, Israel and other controversial issues.

Whether discussing John F. Kennedy's philandering and secularity or Richard Nixon's betrayal of Billy Graham's trust during Watergate, Holmes includes telling and often colorful details not widely known or long forgotten.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College senior Jordan Krebs was a 2012 award recipient of the American Society for Microbiology's (ASM) Undergraduate Research Capstone Program.

Krebs, a biology and chemistry double major from Roaring Spring, Pa., was one of only seven students to receive the award, and was the only student from a baccalaureate college selected. Of the other recipients, three were from doctoral/research universities, two were from a master's college and university institutions and one student was from an associates/public rural serving institution.

Awardees receive up to $1,500 toward travel to the ASM Presentation Institute and 112^th ASM General Meeting, as well as a two-year ASM student membership.

Dr. Kasthuri Venkateswaran of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was Krebs' mentor. His research project is titled "Assessment of Bacillus horneckiae Spore Survival under Simulated Space ISS Conditions."

The Undergraduate Research Capstone Program is designed to help students develop professionalism for underrepresented minority students. The undergraduate capstone program focuses on enhancing presentation and networking skills, as well as helping students to transition to disciplinary scientific meetings.

The ASM, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the oldest and largest single biological membership organization, with more than 40,000 members worldwide.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College chapter of Habitat for Humanity will host its annual 5K Run/Walk for Shelter on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 1 p.m. The 3.1-mile course begins at College Place and continues through Brandon Park and downtown Williamsport.

Registration opens at noon. Walkers will start at 1 p.m. and runners at 1:30 p.m. Prizes will be presented to the male and female individuals who place first overall, as well as to the top runners in each age category. The first three male and female walkers will also receive awards. The program includes a children's fun run and door prizes for participants.

Entry fee is $10 for students, $15 for pre-registered adults or $17 for adults on the day of the race. More information and registration is available at www.lycoming.edu/5k or at neparunner.com/road.html, by contacting student coordinators Katy Wrona at wrokath@lycoming.edu or Annie Wegman at weganni@lycoming.edu, or by calling the College's United Campus Ministry at 570-321-4065.

The Lycoming College chapter of Habitat for Humanity supports the work of Habitat for Humanity in the greater Lycoming County area by raising funds, volunteering at local builds and providing opportunities to both learn and advocate for the effort to eliminate substandard housing.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department will host "Nuances," an exhibition by artist Joyce Michaud, Oct. 18-Nov. 16 in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library. An artist's reception and gallery talk will be held Thursday, Oct. 18, from 4-5:30 p.m.

Michaud earned a bachelor's in art from Lycoming in 1973. She holds a MFA from The George Washington University and is an associate professor at Hood College in Frederick, Md., where she serves as the coordinator for studio arts and director of the MFA and graduate certificate in ceramic arts.

A practicing artist and educator who is active in her field, Michaud is recognized for her teaching and in-depth research into 2D and 3D composition, structural strength in clay and the aesthetics of nature. Her work has been placed in more than 300 private collections, as well as the Wuxi Museum in Yixing, China, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C. She was recently inducted into the Frederick County (Md.) Arts Council Arts Hall of Fame.

Michaud's work, in its array of structure, technique and style, is a study in contrasts. The sensuous line of organic curves and the earthy tones of her varied surfaces speak to the evolution of form and natural imagery. Her work addresses the interplay of strength, form, extremes, fragility, gesture and graceful movement that reference the delicate balance inherent in life itself. Michaud states, "Each piece, each firing has its own voice, tells its own story. Life is truly a delicate balance and we must maintain that balance in order to survive."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Archaeology Program has announced its completion of the 2012 expedition of Idalion, Cyprus. Dr. Pamela Gaber, professor of archaeology and Judaic studies and director of Lycoming's field school, led the project from June 25- Aug. 10.

Students participating in this year's dig included Sam Clarke, Stephanie Collado, Lydia Dwyer, Matiana Gallegos, Danielle Grega, Harry Kallet, Taylor Kendra, Jacob Kupperman, Monica Martinez, Joe Mayer, Chelsea Reimer, David Shepard, Isaiah Spires, Amy Vaughn and Andrew Wright.

According to Gaber, students explored the Adonis Sacred Grove on the shoulder of the East Acropolis of ancient Idalion, Mouti tou Arvili.

During the expedition, founding levels of some of the earliest structures in the six-hectare sanctuary were reached upon the bedrock. Findings showed that pits were cut in the original rock of the hill, and the earliest walls, which date to the 11^th century BCE, were laid upon it. This earliest level of the sanctuary most closely resembles the sanctuary to the Great Goddess on the top of the acropolis of ancient Amathus.

Another find occurred when the group explored an ancient road from Idalion to Kition, where the main gat of the ancient city was found. It was destroyed during renovation of the road. Only the socket for the gate pivot was visible among the bulldozed area, and in undertaking a dig across the road, two walls were revealed. One of the walls could be dated back to the Hellenistic and Roman period, while the other was dated much earlier, probably the 6^th century BCE.

Work also continued in the Sanctuary of the Paired Deities below the west acropolis administrative center. The earliest material yet was found in this area, which was the central place of worship of ancient Idalion. It was there that one of the most interesting finds was discovered under a pair of standing stones. The stones appear to have been continually revered from the 5^th century BCE to the Roman period. This year's dig revealed that they were set up atop a platform on which two wooden pillars stood. These seem to have been burnt completely around 450 BCE, the same time the Phoenicians destroyed - and later rebuilt - the administrative complex just south of the Temple. It is possible that these objects of worship were burnt as part of the conquest in order to establish the new rule of the people from Kition over the Cypriotes of Idalion.

Next year, the expedition hopes to pursue the fascinating early history of the ancient city-kingdom of Idalion.

"We will continue working in the Sanctuary of the Paired Deities, in the Adonis Temenos, and in the industrial area below the East Acropolis," says Gaber. "All of our work is undertaken with deep gratitude to the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, and with the support of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College professor of art Lynn Estomin will present her paper, "Feminist Documentary through the Lens of Social Justice," at the Social Justice Feminism Conference at the University of Cincinnati College of Law Oct. 26-27.

Estomin's photography has also been included in the In-Sight Photography Project's annual exhibition at the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, Vt., Oct. 5-28.

Estomin teaches graphic design, digital imaging, web design and interactive media at the College. Much of her art focuses on gender and social issues and the environment. Her documentaries have won multiple awards and have been screened at film festivals nationally and internationally. In addition, Estonmin's websites and interactive art have earned her numerous awards, and her still photography has been exhibited nationally.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Alumni Association Executive Board (AAEB) presented four awards during the College's Homecoming activities Saturday, Oct. 20. Award recipients were selected by the board from nominations received from alumni and other members of the College community.

Charles D. Springman, a 1959 Lycoming graduate, received the Angela R. Kyte Outstanding Alumnus Award, given to an alumnus/a who has demonstrated a lifetime of service to humanity and whose life exemplifies those qualities encouraged and fostered at Lycoming.

Dr. John E. Marthinsen, a 1970 Lycoming graduate, received the Outstanding Achievement Award, given in recognition of an alumnus/a who has achieved a significant accomplishment that reflects positively on the College.

Gary R. Spies, a 1970 Lycoming graduate, was recognized with the Dale V. Bower Service Award, given to an individual for outstanding service rendered to Lycoming.

Lauren L. Lawson-Zilai, a 1999 Lycoming graduate, received the inaugural Taunia Oechslin Young Alumnus Award, given to an alumnus/a who has made significant contributions to their profession, demonstrating leadership and exemplifying outstanding service and volunteerism to the College or the community during the first 15 years since graduating.

Springman, a graduate of Williamsport Area High School, earned a master's in retailing from the University of Pittsburgh in 1960. He also served four years in the U.S. Air Force, attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant. He was the senior vice president of operations for Lord and Taylor Department Stores, and upon his retirement, he and his wife, Shirley, returned to the Williamsport area where Springman took on full-time volunteer work for numerous non-profit organizations, government agencies and the United Methodist Church. His service has impacted countless organizations including the American Rescue Workers, Lycoming County Food Bank, Salvation Army, Blooming Grove Historical Society and Little League International. Springman has shared his experience with The Vision 2000 Committee in Cleveland, Ohio, the National Retail Merchants Association and the Lycoming County Planning Commission and Board of View. A trustee emeritus of the College, he remains active on several committees. This summer, he was elected a 33^rd Degree based on his major contributions to society throughout his lifetime, an honor bestowed on only one half of one percent of all Masons.

Marthinsen is a professor of economics and international business and the distinguished chair in Swiss economics at Babson College in Massachusetts, where he has served 1974. He has been elected a professor of the year by the student body and received the Thomas Kennedy Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. Marthinsen has extensive consulting experience with both domestic and international companies, banks and the U.S. government. Among his consultants have been the Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Transportation, Roche Holding Ltd. and HandelsBank NatWest, Switzerland. He has been a member of the United Nations Association's Economic Policy Council and has lectured at the universities of Bern and Basel in Switzerland and the University of Nurnberg in Germany. He was a member of the board of directors of Givaudan S.A., a Swiss-based flavors and fragrances company. In addition, Marthinsen has authored and co-authored several books; among his most recent are "Managing in a Global Economy: Demystifying International Macroeconomics" and "Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives." He and his wife, 1970 Lycoming graduate Laraine (Danielsen), have two sons, Eric and Nils.

Spies served two terms as a board member and treasurer of Lycoming's AAEB. He assumed the responsibilities for the annual homecoming golf tournament which, under his leadership, was re-named the Thomas Croyle Memorial Golf Tournament, in memory of his Theta Chi brother who died tragically in 2007. Spies has served as a statistician for athletic events, as a commencement usher and greeter, and was a valuable member of the committee charged with choosing a new athletics logo for the College. He has organized multiple events and reunions for his Theta Chi fraternity and is a steadfast supporter of alumni social events. He encourages other alumni to become more involved with the College, and he continually recruits AAEB members, volunteers for committees and participants for alumni events. He and his wife, Karen, reside in Williamsport and have a daughter, Jenni, and a son, Brian, who graduated from Lycoming in 2002.

Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International. Her prior nonprofit experience includes serving as the public relations representative for the Children's Defense Fund, Doorways for Women and Families and Greater D.C. Cares. She began her career in New York City, where she led publicity campaigns for authors at book publishers including AOL/Time Warner, Eagle Publishing, Penguin Putnam and Simon and Schuster. She is the past president of Washington Women in Public Relations, an organization in the greater Washington, D.C., area dedicated to advancing women in the public relations field. She is the founder of the Emerging Leaders Award, a special accolade for young women ages 21-30 who have made a significant impact in the communications industry. She is the recipient of the Entrepreneurship Achievement Award from the Greater Washington Women's Network. She is also a graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute. Lawson-Zilai was Lycoming's 2012 New Student Convocation speaker. She and her husband, Justin, reside in Potomac, Md.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will participate in the nationwide Game Day Challenge sustainability initiative during the Homecoming football game, Saturday, Oct 20 at 1:30 p.m. at David Person Field. The College is one of nearly 70 schools across the country that will participate in the program during the 2012 football season.

Sponsored through the College and University Recycling Coalition, RecycleMania, Keep America Beautiful, and with support from the Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise program, Game Day Challenge aims to promote proper recycling techniques and other waste reduction methods.

Lycoming is the first institution in the Middle Atlantic Conference to take part in Game Day Challenge. Approximately two dozen labeled bins for all types of recycling will be placed around David Person Field. The College's Building and Ground's department and volunteers from the Lycoming Environmental Awareness Foundation, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and various athletic teams are helping to support the program. They will be collecting recyclables from the stands during the game and directing Warrior fans to dispose of their recyclables in the proper bins. Sustainability coordinators will also be driving a golf cart around the perimeter of the athletic complex to collect material from tailgating areas. T-shirts promoting the event will be sold during the game.

Schools compete in five different categories during the challenge: waste generation, diversion rate, greenhouse gas reduction, recycling and organics reduction. In December, a winner in each individual category will be declared.

Last year, schools participating in the Game Day Challenge ultimately stopped the release of more than 810 metric tons of carbon dioxide through their collective waste reduction efforts.

More information can be found at www.gamedaychallenge.org.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Archaeology Department will host biblical archaeologist Dr. Garth Gilmour of the University of Oxford for a free, public lecture, titled "David and Solomon: Dead or Alive?" on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in Heim Building G-11.

The lecture will address recent debates about the reliability of the biblical text centered on the characters of David and Solomon. Some scholars reject their existence completely; others propose that while they may have existed, they were little more than tribal chieftains in the central hill country of Israel and had nothing to do with the establishment of the Israelite kingdoms. Gilmour will discuss the archaeological evidence, which indicates that the demise of David and Solomon as historical characters, even as the founders of the early Israelite state, is premature.

Gilmour also plans to visit several archaeology and religion classes during his four-day visit to the College.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's website has been listed among the most highly-rated in the country in the 14th annual My College Options Enrollment Power Index (EPI), an analysis of admissions websites from nearly 3,000 colleges and universities. Lycoming scored in the top 100 of all sites rated.

"We were elated to learn that our website was selected as one of the top 100 in the country," said James Spencer, vice president of admissions and financial aid. "The site was developed knowing that it had to appeal to both prospective and current students, faculty, alumni and the general public. Not an easy task, but we were particularly pleased with our high score for ease of navigation. What good is a website if people can't find the information they seek?"

The College's website can be viewed at www.lycoming.edu. The site is managed by Lycoming's web committee, which includes Spencer; Elizabeth Greenaway, web content coordinator; Dave Heffner, associate dean of information technology and chief information officer; Robert Krepshaw, web designer; Jerry Rashid, director of college relations; and Casey Spencer, college relations specialist. It boasts links to key information, including financial aid and scholarships, visitation programs and the application process, as well as College videos and profiles of students, faculty and alumni.

MyCollegeOptions.org is the nation's largest online college planning program, and is operated by the National Research Center for College & University Admissions. For 40 years, NRCCUA has served to link high school students and colleges, universities and the resources they need to succeed.

Rankings stem from a research-based analysis that measures how well college and university websites provide information to prospective students to assist them through the application process. The study grades institutions on a 100-point scale, including functionality, design and technology components. This year's study examined 38 different criteria in four main categories: Ability to Find Desired Information, Personal Contact with Admissions Staff and Students, Online Interactive Tools and Website Design and Navigation.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Dave Freet, Don Hughes and Dr. Lynn Kramer have joined the Lycoming College Board of Trustees, according to Peter R. Lynn, board chairman.

Freet, who earned a degree in business administration from Lycoming in 1968, retired in 2008 as the sixth president of the Pennsylvania Telephone Association, a trade organization representing the collective interests of the traditional local exchange telephone companies that operate throughout the state. He previously served as vice president of external affairs from February 1991 until June 1996. Upon his retirement, Freet was presented with the PTA's Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding contributions to the telecommunications industry.

Prior to work at the PTA, Freet gained extensive experience in a 23-year career with the former United Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, where he began working in 1968. While there, he enjoyed increasing roles of responsibility, culminating in serving as staff director of external affairs.

Freet was a member of the Lycoming College Alumni Association Executive Board from 2001-10, serving as president from 2008-10. He was the guest speaker at the College's New Student Convocation in 2007. Freet and his wife, Jane, live in Harrisburg, Pa.

Hughes, a 1972 Lycoming accounting graduate, is a senior partner and the chief financial officer at Camden Partners, which operates private equity funds to provide growth capital for emerging companies. He previously served as CFO of Capstone Pharmacy Services Inc., as executive vice president and CFO of Broventure Company Inc. and in the audit division of Arthur Andersen LLP.

Hughes serves on the boards of several organizations, including Biomedical Enterprises Inc., IncentOne Inc., Questar Assessment Inc., and New Horizons Worldwide Inc. He serves on the audit committees of all four boards.

In November 2011, Hughes returned to campus as part of the College's Institute for Management Studies' James W. Harding Executive Speaker Series. He and his wife, Yvonne, live in Hunt Valley, Md.

Kramer, who earned an interdisciplinary degree from Lycoming in 1972, is president of the Neuroscience Product Creation Unit at Eisai Inc., which is ranked among the top 20 U.S. pharmaceutical companies based on retail sales. His career also includes positions at PAR Pharmaceutical Inc., Purdue Pharmaceuticals, Ciba-Geigy/Novartis Pharmaceuticals, R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and Carter-Wallace Inc.

Kramer is a fellow of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He graduated from the Hahnemann Medical School in 1976. Kramer and his wife, LaVonne, reside in Westport, Conn., and have two children.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will host a production of Melanie Marnich's "Blur" by the play-reading troupe T.R.A.P. (to. read. a. play.) in the College's Dragon's Lair theatre on Friday, Oct. 26, at 9:30 p.m. The performance is free and open to the public.

The play tells the story of Dot Di Prima, who enjoys an easy-going existence until she is diagnosed with a genetic disease that will eventually lead to blindness. With the help of her boyfriend, best friend and a wayward priest, she learns to build relationships, overcome disease and live a full life, complete with spirit, humor and hope, using her heart rather than her eyes.

The cast features Lycoming students Nate Bahn '15, Sarah Beddingfield '15, Zach Campbell '16, Taylor Granger '15, Makenzy LeFever '15, Anna Pysher '15, Michael Sampsell '16 and Joshua Troxler '13.

"Blur is a cool and fast show," Troxler said. "The themes are very clear and boldly put by Marnich. I feel it will translate very well to the area at large, and especially Lycoming College. This is a very experimental play. We want to pick edgy stuff here and there; we want to challenge ourselves to experiment."  

The T.R.A.P. production, the group's third full-length show, is supported by the College's theatre department.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Leah Bedrosian Peterson, Lycoming College assistant professor and chair of communication, was recently awarded the first place, best in show honor at the Park Art Fair International in Geneva, Switzerland.

Peterson received the award for her work "Erasure," a collection of photographs and videos taken during her travels to South East Asia in summer 2010. Peterson documented the villages and cities of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam during a two-month period. The title, "Erasure," references the changes in the local traditional culture and the changes to the landscape as these third-world nations are being influenced by Western culture.

Park Art Fair International accepts applicants from around the world, and only 200 artists are selected to display their work at the event. The exhibits were judged by an international panel of professionals and members of significant political organizations.

"It is an honor to be recognized by one's international peers with such an award," said Peterson. "I was in complete shock when I found out. Needless to say, I'm excited that my work was considered to be the best in show."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

MONDAY, OCT. 29, 2:45 P.M.

Due to the current weather conditions and forecast for this area, Lycoming College will close as of 3:05 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 29. Employees not directly involved in the safety and emergency operations of the College may leave campus at 3:05 p.m. as well.

The College plans to operate on a compressed class schedule Tuesday, Oct. 30, beginning at 10 a.m. Regular employees should report at this time. Information on compressed schedules may be found at http://www.lycoming.edu/inclementWeather/pdfs/compressedSchedule.pdf. 

If a situation arises requiring a change in plans, the College community will be notified no later than 9 a.m. Tuesday morning. It is expected that if the College has power, classes will be held.

If the storm prevents a faculty member from getting to College, please contact Diane Carl, assistant to the president (carl@lycoming.edu), who will post that information on the Individual Class Cancellation page (http://www.lycoming.edu/inclementWeather/).

Students who commute and cannot get to the campus should notify their faculty directly by email or contact the Dean of Students office at 321-4039 or by email (wool@lycoming.edu). The dean's office will then notify the faculty. 

The College has emergency systems in place for this type of event, in particular, a power outage. All campus building will have lighted hallways and stairwells, and technology systems i.e., network, residence hall Wi-Fi, website and building access, will be operational.

Individuals are urged to keep cell phones and laptops on chargers in the event of a power outage. It is important to note that it is unknown how long or if at all cell phones will continue to work during an extended power outage. Furthermore, several precautions should be taken during and after the storm. These include:

Do not walk or drive through a flooded area.

Stay away from fallen trees or downed wires.

Listen for crackling tree branches.

Do not park under a tree.

During a period of high wind be aware of flying debris. 

Throughout the course of the storm, updated information will be sent via email, the College's emergency text system and the homepage of the College's website. Those not registered with the emergency text system may do so by going to WebAdvisor through the myLyco link on the College's homepage. 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, OCT. 28, 9 P.M.

The National Weather Service has indicated that Hurricane Sandy is likely to impact Williamsport and Lycoming County in the next 48 hours. This area is under a High Wind Warning until 2 p.m. on Tuesday and is under a Flood Watch until Tuesday at 8 p.m.

Lycoming College will remain open Monday, Oct. 29, and will operate on a normal schedule. 

If the storm prevents a faculty member from getting to College, Diane Carl, assistant to the president (carl@lycoming.edu), will post that information on the Individual Class Cancellation page (http://www.lycoming.edu/inclementWeather/).

Students who commute and cannot get to the campus should notify their faculty directly by email or contact the Dean of Students office at 321-4039 or by email (wool@lycoming.edu). The dean's office will then notify the faculty. 

The College's emergency planning group will monitor the storm's progress carefully throughout the course of the storm and send updated information via email, the College's emergency text system and on the homepage of the College's website. Members of the College community not yet registered with the emergency text system may do so by going to WebAdvisor through the myLyco link on the College's homepage. 

The College has contingency plans in place to ensure continuity of essential services on campus should this storm situation mandate such actions.  

Weather alerts for the Williamsport area may be monitored here. 

The Lycoming College chapter of Phi Kappa Phi was recently recognized by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi as a Chapter of Merit. The award is given to chapters that excel in recognizing and promoting academic excellence in all fields of higher education and engaging the community of scholars in service to others.

The goal of the recognition program is to reward those chapters that have exhibited outstanding performance as a result of the efforts of their volunteer chapter officers. Of the honor society's 318 chapters, 73 received recognition and 54 were given Chapter of Merit status. Those honored will receive a commendation letter, special mention in the society's publications, recognition in educational journals and a cash award.

By receiving the distinction, Lycoming's chapter is acknowledged as a thriving organization that meets frequently, holds annual initiations and applies frequently for Phi Kappa Phi's select scholarships, grants and fellowships.

Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines, with chapters at select colleges and universities in North America and the Philippines.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Pictured from left are student Phi Kappa Phi vice presidents Kendra Boyles and Trisha Duncan, and Dr. Mel Zimmerman, professor of biology and chapter officer.

Lycoming College announces its fall class of student teachers. The following students, pictured from left and listed with their placements, have begun their professional semester through the College's education program.

Front row: Jessica Kissinger, Central Mountain Middle School; Taylor Lesser, Central Elementary School; Krista Peterson, Hughesville High School; Samantha Doutt, Loyalsock Valley Elementary School; Alison Tripoli, Central Elementary School; and Kiley Moesta, Jackson Elementary School.

Back row: Marlene Cauley, supervisor of elementary and special education student teachers; Juliana Morgan, Williamsport Area High School; Jared Stetts, Curtain Middle School; Glen Hughes Muncy Junior-Senior High School; Chris Kish, Muncy Junior-Senior High School; Amy Cline, Sheridan Elementary School; Amy Weaver, South Williamsport Area High School; and Melvin E. Wentzel, supervisor of secondary student teachers.

First offered in 1955, the education program remains one of Lycoming's most popular courses of study. Lycoming provides its future teachers the breadth and depth of a strong liberal arts education. Students choose an academic major and, with the help of their advisors, follow a carefully planned sequence of professional education courses, enriched by extensive field experiences in nearby schools.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

A variety of entertaining and educational activities are planned for Lycoming College's annual Family Weekend, Sept. 28-30. Registration will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in Burchfield Lounge, Wertz Student Center.

Highlights of the weekend include the annual Family Weekend Concert, showcasing the musical talents of the Lycoming College Band and Chamber Choir, on Friday at 7 p.m. in Clarke Chapel.

The theatre department will present the one-woman play "Florida Girls" on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Mary L. Welch Theatre.

On Saturday, the men's and women's soccer teams will host Alvernia at the Shangraw Athletic Complex. The women's game begins at 11 a.m. and the men's begins at 1:30 p.m. The Warrior football team will face King's at David Person Field at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday information sessions include an Archives Open House in Snowden Library, "Do the Bible" with Dr. Pamela Gaber, professor of archaeology and Judaic studies, a study abroad session and "Parenting the College Freshman, Part II," with Andrew Kilpatrick, assistant dean for freshmen. Parents will also have the opportunity to meet with Lycoming professors during a Faculty Open House

In addition, a Hiawatha Riverboat Tour will be offered late Saturday morning and Lycoming families can enjoy an ice cream sundae social from 8:30-10 p.m. in East Hall Coffeehouse.

Family-friendly hypnotist Keith Karkut will provide Saturday evening entertainment in Clarke Chapel from 7:30-8:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development.

On Sunday, Catholic mass will be held at 9 a.m. at St. Boniface Church and a Protestant Ecumenical Service with music by the Lycoming College Choir will be held in the College's Clarke Chapel at 10:30 a.m.

Some activities require advance registration. For a complete list of Family Weekend programming, visit http://www.lycoming.edu/alumni/familyWeekend/.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Jeff Thayer moved to Williamsport at the age of 1 when his father accepted a position on the music faculty at Lycoming College. Now, 36 years later, the violinist, concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony and faculty member of the Music Academy of the West will return to present a concert honoring his father, Dr. Fred Thayer, Lycoming professor of music and director of choirs, on Friday, Sept. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the College's Clarke Chapel. The concert is free and open to the public.

Jeff Thayer will be joined by wife, Julie Thayer, on French horn, as well as friend and colleague, Jonathan Feldman on piano. Repertoire will include Dvorak's "Romance," Brahms' "Horn Trio" and music by Ravel and Kreisler.

"Not only did I do a lot of growing up around the college, going to many events and choir concerts throughout each school year, I spent a lot of time in Clarke Chapel with my violin," Jeff Thayer remarked. "I greatly look forward to performing again in this special space and having many memories and feelings of nostalgia running through me."

Professor Thayer joined Lycoming's music faculty in 1976. Since then, he has kept an active schedule of teaching and conducting. He has led the choir on 34 spring break tours and nine overseas trips, and has touched the lives of countless students. He plans to retire at the conclusion of the 2012-13 academic year.

Professor Thayer, an avid composer, has earned numerous ASCAP Standard Panel Awards and Meet the Composer Grants. Among his compositions for choral ensembles, orchestra and band are a large-scale mass and two operas. His work is published by E.C. Schirmer, Lawson Gould, Bourne Co., Laurendale Associates and Roger Dean Music. For 22 summers, he was the associate conductor of the Gregg Smith Singers at the Adirondack Festival of American Music in Saranac Lake, NY. He and his wife, Pat, who taught Suzuki violin for 32 years, have two sons, Jeff and Marc. Marc also plans to perform at the College later in the academic year.

"My parents are of course the reason that I am a musician today," Jeff Thayer said. "Not only did my mother start me on the violin [at age 3], I grew up immersed in music thanks to both of my parents' professions, influence and encouragement. It is a privilege to have been asked and an honor for me to be a part of my father's storied tenure at Lycoming College."

Jeff Thayer has held positions as assistant concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, associate concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony, and concertmaster of the Canton (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. He is also a founding member of the chamber music series, Camera Lucida, in residence at the University of California, San Diego, along with violist Brian Chen and cellist Charles Curtis. He is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division. He has appeared as soloist with an array of orchestras and his talents have been recognized with numerous awards.

Julie Thayer is acting fourth horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She is on a short leave of absence from the Houston Symphony, where she has been fourth horn since 2009. She attended The Eastman School of Music and began playing the horn professionally in Rochester, N.Y., first as a substitute with the Syracuse Symphony and then as acting fourth horn of the Rochester Philharmonic. She continued her studies at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, subbing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, San Diego Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera. Julie has also performed at the Kennedy Center, where she was a featured artist in the first-ever Conservatory Series, which highlights young talent from the top music schools in the country. Julie has participated in numerous summer festivals including Breckenridge Music Institute, National Orchestral Institute and Music Academy of the West, where she met Jeff in summer 2003.

Feldman is a leading chamber musician and accompanist, and has performed on four continents with some of the world's greatest instrumentalists. He regularly appears with the New York Philharmonic, and as a chamber musician appears in concert as a member of the trio Zephyr. A graduate of Juilliard, Feldman joined the Juilliard faculty in 1989 and today chairs the school's collaborative piano department. He can be heard on soundtracks for many movies, including "Music of the Heart" with Meryl Streep and "The Man Who Wasn't There," directed by the Coen brothers. Feldman was a guest artist at the Music Academy of the West and has been a faculty member since 2003.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will host Nancy Hasty's "Florida Girls," in the Mary L. Welch Theatre Sept. 28-29 at 8 p.m.

In the tradition of Lily Tomlin and Whoopi Goldberg, Hasty single handedly portrays 15 unique, hilarious and true-to-life characters in this one-woman play. Set in Crestview in 1965, it chronicles the small-town family life of a couple, their five daughters, two neighbor women, a set of tough teenage boys and a holy-rolling grandmother and her fundamentalist preacher. The action takes place during the week that the older girls enter the town beauty pageant.

Hasty's multiple works include three one-woman shows and five dramas, historical plays, musicals and a one-act play. Her shows have been performed off-Broadway, internationally, regionally and on tour. "Florida Girls" has toured across the U.S. at colleges and universities, theatres and festivals, and Hasty's newest play, "Lawnchairs," debuted at the Electric Theatre Company in Scranton, Pa., and earned her the first place Jerry Kaufman Playwriting Award. Her play, "The Director," ran for three months in Los Angeles and off-Broadway for six months.

Hasty is welcomed as part of the theatre department's guest artist series, which brings theatre professionals to campus each year to conduct workshops, speak to classes and perform alongside students in productions.

"Florida Girls" is recommended for all audiences. Tickets, available beginning Sept. 14, are free for Lycoming students, faculty and staff. General admission tickets are $10; student and senior tickets are $8. A special dinner and a show package will be offered for $18 per person on Sept. 28 in the Jane Shultz Room, Wertz Student Center. Advanced reservations required. For tickets, reservations or more information, call the box office, open 1-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, at 570-321-4048.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will host College Night, sponsored by the Lycoming County Counselors Association, on Thursday, Sept. 20, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the College's Recreation Center. Area high school students interested in continuing their education will have the opportunity to speak with representatives from more than 60 institutions of higher education. The annual event is free and open to the public.

"It is a pleasure to serve as the host for this annual program," says Jason Moran, director of admissions at Lycoming. "This is a wonderful opportunity for local college-bound students to connect with a variety of colleges, universities and technical schools, all in one evening. Members of the Lycoming County Counselors Association deserve a-round-of-applause for their effort given to organize this event."

Participants include:

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College welcomed five new faculty members at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year, according to Dr. Phil Sprunger, provost and dean of the College. Lycoming's fall semester began Monday, Aug. 27.

	Heather Demshock is an assistant professor of accounting. Prior to Lycoming, she was a senior associate at the Certified Public Accounting firm Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP in Norfolk, Va. Her primary focus there was auditing companies in the real estate, not-for-profit, leisure and employee benefit plan industries. In addition, she performed tax planning and preparation for individual and partnership tax returns. She is a Certified Public Accountant and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from Old Dominion University and a master's in accounting from Liberty University.  
	Amanda Horn Gunderson is a visiting assistant professor of music. Her specialization is in piano performance and pedagogy, and she has an expertise in issues associated with small-handed pianists. She holds both bachelor's and master's of music degrees from Penn State University, and recently completed a doctorate of musical arts program at the University of Wisconsin.  
	Jay Innerarity is a visiting assistant professor of theatre. He is interested in collaboration and sculptural aspects of theatre design. He has previously taught theatre at the University of Memphis and before that, taught as both a UH-60 Blackhawk NRC flight instructor and a standardization instructor for the United States Army. He is a graduate of the 101st Airborne Division, Noncommissioned Officer Academy, holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in scenic design and fine arts from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Master of Fine Arts in scene design and technical production from the University of Memphis.  
	Tiffany Towns is a visiting assistant professor of theatre. Her interests include costume design, children's theatre and puppetry. She joins Lycoming from the University of Alabama, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in costume design and technology. She also has a bachelor's of theatre from Brenau University and an associate's degree in theatre from Gainesville State College.  
	Sabri Yilmaz is a visiting instructor of economics. His research interest is trade networks under asymmetric information and their applications to various markets. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Illinois University and master's degrees in both economics and mathematics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as a bachelor's of mathematics from Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey.  

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Clarence "Dutch" Burch, who coached Lycoming College's men's basketball program from 1962-94, passed away Saturday, Sept. 8. He was 80. During his 32-year tenure, Burch won a school-record 318 games and led the Warriors to Middle Atlantic Conference regular-season championships in 1965-66, 1983-84 and 1984-85. Lycoming made 11 appearances in the postseason with Burch at the helm.

"Lycoming College has lost one of its most storied coaches of all time," said Lycoming President James Douthat. "It has also lost a true gentleman."

A memorial service to will be held Friday, Sept. 14, at 6 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 844 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. A reception with his family will follow the service at church. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions in Burch's name may be made to Lycoming College and Dutch Burch Court, Development Office, 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701 or Trinity Episcopal Church. Condolences may be sent to his wife, Georgia, at their home address: 1104 Elmira Street, Williamsport, PA 17701, or submitted online at www.knightconferfuneralhome.com.

Burch, who was MAC Coach of the Year in 1983-84, coached 17 first-team all-conference picks and two league most valuable players during his career. He also mentored 11 of the program's 25 1,000-point scorers, including Rich Henninger (1970-74), the all-time leading scorer who tallied 2,184 points, and five of the program's top 10 all-time leading rebounders. Lycoming enjoyed one of its finest seasons in 1984-85, compiling a then-school record 19 wins en route to a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Among the highlights of Burch's career was having the opportunity to coach two of his three sons, Sam (1982-86) and Seth (1985-89). They helped Lycoming to a 92-75 record and three MAC playoff appearances during their playing careers. His daughter, Sue, a 1981 Lycoming graduate, was a member of the women's tennis team.

Known as one of the true gentlemen of college basketball, Burch guided the Warriors to four Sam Schoenfeld Sportsmanship Awards, given annually by the Collegiate Basketball Officials Association.

A member of Lycoming's Athletics Hall of Fame, Burch also served the College as head baseball coach from 1962-72 and director of athletics from 1976-84, overseeing the addition of women's basketball, women's swimming and men's and women's cross country. He helped incorporate Lycoming's women's athletics program into the NCAA during the 1982-83 season.

Burch graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1954. He was named the men's basketball team's most valuable player in 1952 and 1954, and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1954 NBA draft by the Fort Wayne (now Detroit) Pistons.

He is survived by wife, Georgia, and their four children, Susan B. Caravaggio (Steven) of Williamsport, Stephen W. Burch of Williamsport, Samuel C. Burch (Dawn) of South Williamsport and Seth B. Burch (Debi) of Williamsport; three granddaughters, Anna G. Caravaggio, Mersadies R. Burch and Gabriela L. Burch; and a brother, Joseph G. "Pete" Burch (Bonnie) of Oil City.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

 

Dr. William G. Dever, distinguished visiting professor of Near Eastern studies at Lycoming College, has been invited to give a one-month short course in the archaeology of Israel and Biblical studies at Beijing University in China as a visiting professor in the department of history. This is the first time that a Western scholar has been invited to teach such subjects in China.

Dever's latest book, "The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect" (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012), appeared last April. He is now completing a history of ancient Israel based largely on archaeological remains as opposed to the texts of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. The book, "An Archaeological History of Israel and Judah," is expected to be a unique and highly controversial work, but one that updates all previous histories with new data.

Dever will serve as a visiting professor of archaeology in the department of Near Eastern studies at UCLA during the spring semester of 2013 before he and his wife, Dr. Pamela Gaber, Lycoming professor of archaeology and Judaic studies, return to Cyprus to direct Lycoming's archaeological field school for the summer.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Sixty-two Lycoming College students volunteered to assist area families impacted by last September's flooding on Saturday, Sept. 8, as part of the College's 9-11 Day of Service.

The group divided into two crews, which traveled to Clarkstown and to Lower Manor Road near Rt. 87. The Clarkstown group contributed to construction and property repair efforts, dry-walling, painting and performing outdoor maintenance. At Lower Manor Road, students removed debris and moldy drywall, took down a shed and back-filled a basement. Volunteers worked from 8 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., even staying productive through several rain showers.

The event was organized by Lycoming's Community Service Center, which hopes to continue to provide assistance to the areas throughout the year.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College announces the launch of a new mobile website. Smart phone and smart device users who visit www.lycoming.edu will be redirected to m.lycoming.edu, which features some of the most popular links from the College's full website.

Visitors of the mobile site will be able to access admissions, academic, athletic and directory information; browse the College's latest news releases; view upcoming alumni events; and quickly obtain directions to campus, among other tasks, through content purposed for mobile devices. Links are also available to mobile versions of Lycoming's social media sites.

"We are excited to provide this platform for alumni, prospective and current students, and friends of the College to connect with all the great things happening at Lycoming," says Robert Krepshaw, College web designer. "We hope the new site makes it easier for them to access information and take Lycoming with them wherever they go."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College student organizations Circle K and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity hosted speaker Clayton Jacobs, vice president of programs and services for the Greater Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association, on Wednesday, Sept. 12.

Jacobs discussed the memory loss, aging and dementia associated with the disease, and how students can make a difference in the fight against Alzheimer's.

The program was a kick-off to a campaign for the local Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's, co-sponsored by the two organizations, to be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 11 a.m. at Indian Park in Montoursville. Student and community groups will participate as teams to raise support for Alzheimer's research.

For more information on the Alzheimer's Walk, to sign up a team or to donate, visit www.alz.org.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College alumnus Michael J. Hayes will speak as part of the College's Institute for Management Studies' James W. Harding Executive Speaker Series on Monday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in Heim Building G-11.

Hayes, who earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Lycoming in 1963, is the recently retired CEO of Fred's Inc., a Fortune 1000 company with more than 700 stores throughout the Southeast. Fred's is a unique, general merchandise store, combining elements of a discount dollar store, drug store and mass merchant.

Hayes' extensive business background includes executive positions on Wall Street, where he was one of the general partners and the executive vice president of corporate and financial services at Oppenheimer and Company and the executive president of Oppenheimer Life Agency. At Oppenheimer, Hayes structured and marketed more than $1 billion in venture capital and real estate, as well as oil and gas investments, for the firm and its clients.

Hayes later founded his own company, Hayes Financial, where he acquired a controlling interest in Fred's Inc., and later took the company public. He still serves as chairman of the board and an active private equity investor for Fred's Inc.

The speaker series is named for James W. Harding, a 1938 graduate of Lycoming and native of Montoursville, Pa., and executive of Kemper Insurance. The College was awarded a grant from the James S. Kemper Foundation of Long Grove, Ill., to endow the series, which has created opportunities for students to meet and network with some of America's top business executives, including those from numerous internationally-recognized companies and firms.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Music Department and the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra will host "Russian Splendor" as part of the annual Close-Up Concert series on Sunday, Oct. 7, at 3 p.m. in the College's Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall, Shangraw Performance Hall at the corner of Fourth and Basin streets.

Music from the program dates to the last years of the Tsars in Russia, during the country's transition into the Soviet era. The time was a golden age for Russian music. Several composers will be featured, including Anton Arensky, whose "Suite for Two Pianos," Op. 15, was written for the imperial court; Dmitri Shostakovich, whose cello sonata is one of his earliest masterworks; and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, whose "Pezzo elegiaco" for violin, cello and piano shows the composer at his most passionate.

The Close-Up Concert series presents great music for small ensembles performed as it was meant to be – in intimate and informal settings. All concerts are held on Sundays at 3 p.m.

Tickets, which are $10 each or $25 for the three-part series, can be ordered by calling the music department at 570-321-4016.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College students studying physics and psychology are getting a more in-depth learning experience thanks to new instruments and updated laboratories that have been made possible through a grant from the George I. Alden Trust in Worcester, Mass.

The physics department has acquired instruments in the areas of mechanics, electromagnetism, modern physics and condensed matter, and thermodynamics. The psychology department now features a new biopsychology teaching lab and equipment for use in processing biological samples. 

"Students are now able to learn through a more rigorous laboratory experience, not just through a professing experience in the classroom where they hear about it, do homework about it and read about it; they are actually able to do it," said Dr. David Fisher, professor of astronomy and physics. "That's one of the really grand things about these new instruments; and they also will allow us to conduct better laboratory demonstrations."

Among the key acquisitions are a blackbody radiation system, which identifies the relationship between an object's temperature and the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation it emits, and a muon physics system, which measures properties of an esoteric elementary particle.

"We're purchasing items that are honest-to-goodness instruments rather than merely equipment, so although they may have particular names that imply particular uses, they're very multi-dimensional," Fisher said. "Now we can expand the range of what is available in the laboratory setting with some of these instruments. And that will allow us to have some wider latitude with student senior research thesis work as well."

According to Dr. Rebecca Gilbertson, assistant professor of psychology, Lycoming's newly renovated biopsychology laboratory gives students the ability to conduct behavioral neuroscience research, an opportunity not typically offered at most small private liberal arts colleges.

"The biopsychology laboratory suite is comprised of the rodent vivarium, animal behavioral testing laboratory and biopsychology teaching lab with recently purchased equipment including a centrifuge," Gilbertson said. "The biopsychology laboratory is the most recent addition to psychology laboratory facilities, which also include the capability for psychophysiology and electroencephalography [EEG] testing for human participants."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College archaeology students and faculty gathered for the annual Archaeological Summer Dig and Internship Report on Friday, Sept. 7. The event included individual and group presentations.

Lycoming students have the opportunity to participate in a variety of hands-on dig experiences. In addition to the digs themselves, students also attend lectures, wash pottery, analyze and record findings, tour the regions and learn more about archaeological theories and methodology. Most offer course credit and fulfill the capstone requirement for the archaeology major.

The College's archaeology program participates in two main dig sites: Idalion, Cyprus, and Tel Gezer, Israel. Dr. Pamela Gaber, professor of archaeology and Judaic studies, directs the Idalion excavation, which is offered each summer. Students taking part this year included Sam Clarke, Matianna Gallegos, Harry Kallet, Monica Martinez, Chelsea Reimer, David Shepard, Stephanie Collado, Lydia Dwyer, Danielle Grega, Taylor Kendra, Jacob Kupperman, Joe Mayer, Isaiah Spires, Amy Vaughn and Andrew Wright.

Lycoming participates as a consortium school in the Tel Gezer Project, which is directed by Dr. Steve Ortiz of Southwestern Biblical Theological Seminary and Dr. Sam Wolff of the Israeli Antiquities Authority. During summer 2011, Rebecca Havers, Rebecca Haygood, Lucas Reckling, Kirstin Rose, Samantha Sinnott and Annie Wegman participated. The project is offered every other summer; the next excavation will be in 2013.

"Gezer gave me the opportunity to explore my major more in depth and a unique, hands-on experience, which allowed me to put my knowledge and skills to the test," Wegman said."I learned what it takes to become an archaeologist, and how laborious the job can sometimes be. But the experiences, adventures and outcomes are so worth it. You can read about ancient history - which is a huge part of being an archaeologist - but when you are actually digging, you see how those people lived, the very pots and daily objects they used, and the very soil from that time period. That is where history comes to life and why I love archaeology."

Often, students who volunteer at these two dig sites return as supervisors. Lycoming alumni who have recently served as staff include Lesley Haines, Marcella Barbosa, Kirstin Rose and Matthew Martin.

The Ault Site in Loyalsock, Pa., offers yet another dig opportunity for Lycoming students. Robin VanAuken, instructor of American archaeology, directs this local Native American site. Recent participants included Stephanie Bowen, Josh Chamberlin, Marcus Coleman, Allyson Earl, Shana Eichenberg, Jacob Kupperman, Mark McKenney, Michelle Neifert, Zach Rentschler, Aaron Rubin, Amber Seibel, Kristin Whitehead and Holly Worth.

Lycoming students are also encouraged to explore other opportunities. Rubin studied Arabic at STARTALK, an intense foreign languages program. Lyric Murray-Walker originally traveled to Egypt for a dig but instead did a study tour with world-renowned scholar and Egyptologist Dr. Donald B. Redford.

Students also participated in several other dig sites: Lauren Reitnouer, Belize; Julia Gallo, Romania; Julie Polcrack, England; Cory Keena, Sweden Viking settlement; Rebecca Hook, Maine; and Zach Rentschler, Colorado. Rachel Rogers and Stephanie Bowen interned at museums in Edgewater, Md., and Pennsburg, Pa., respectively.

At the event, Cori Mancuso shared her experience with the Interfaith Peace-Builders trip to Israel, where she witnessed the cultural and political differences between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Deirdre Connelly, a 1983 Lycoming graduate, will take the helm as president and CEO of Human Genome Sciences following the company's acquisition by GlaxoSmithKline, one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.

HGS, headquartered in Rockville, Md., exists to place new therapies into the hands of those battling serious diseases.

Connelly has served as president, North America Pharmaceuticals, of GSK since February 2009, and previously led Eli Lily and Company as president of U.S. operations.

A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Connelly earned a bachelor's degree in economics and marketing from Lycoming. She graduated from Harvard University's Advanced Management Program in 2000. Among her many accolades, she has been named one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes and one of Fortune Magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic vigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Bob Edgar, a 1965 Lycoming graduate, has been honored by The Nonprofit Times in its annual "Power & Influence Top 50" listing of nonprofit executives.

Edgar is the president and CEO of Common Cause, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to restoring the core values of American democracy, reinventing an open, honest and accountable government that works for the public interest, and empowering ordinary people to make their voices heard.

The list celebrates some of the nonprofit sector's top executives and strategists. Edgar is in good company, appearing along with leaders such as Bill Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of United Way Worldwide. This is the fourth time Edgar has received the recognition.

Edgar has led Common Cause since 2007, arriving there with a long history of leadership and public service that includes 12 years in Congress. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1974, and during six terms he led efforts to improve public transportation, fought wasteful water projects and authored the community Right to Know provision of Super Fund legislation. He served on the committee that investigated the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy and also served on the Veterans Affairs Committee, working on issues involving Agent Orange and readjustment counseling to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Edgar was the general secretary of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S. for seven years before arriving at Common Cause. He is the author of "Middle Church," a call to progressive people of faith to take back the moral high ground from the extremists and make America a better and less divided country. 

In addition to a bachelor's in history from Lycoming, Edgar earned a Master of Divinity from the Theological School of Drew University and holds five honorary doctoral degrees.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic vigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will welcome the Class of 2016 to campus during its annual New Student Convocation on Friday, Aug. 24, at 4 p.m. The traditional ceremony marking the beginning of the academic year will be held on the College's Upper Quad near Clarke Chapel. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held in the Recreation Center. The guest speaker will be Lycoming alumna Lauren Lawson-Zilai, director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, a social enterprise that provides job training to more than 4 million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods in stores and online.

From 9 a.m. to noon, Lycoming's Move-in Crew, comprised of students and staff, will be on hand to assist new students and their families. Fall semester classes begin Monday, Aug. 27.

The new students hail from 22 states and 10 foreign countries. The class boasts SAT scores well above national and state averages; 57 freshmen received invitations to Lycoming's Scholars Program and 22 are high school valedictorians or salutatorians. Though their academic interests are diverse, many students plan to pursue study in the College's archaeology, biology, business, criminal justice, education and psychology programs. The class will see the highest number of students planning to pursue majors in astronomy, physics and chemistry when compared to previously enrolled classes. Outside the classroom, one out of three students plan to participate in varsity athletics and one out of four plans to participate in College's music and theatre ensembles.

Lawson-Zilai earned a bachelor's degree in English literature with a minor in mass communications from Lycoming in 1999. Her prior nonprofit experience includes serving as the public relations representative for the Children's Defense Fund, Doorways for Women and Families and Greater D.C. Cares. She began her career in New York City, where she led publicity campaigns for authors at book publishers including AOL/Time Warner, Eagle Publishing, Penguin Putnam and Simon and Schuster. She is the past president of Washington Women in Public Relations, an organization in the greater Washington, D.C., area dedicated to advancing women in the public relations field. She is the founder of the Emerging Leaders Award, a special accolade for young women ages 21-30 who have made a significant impact in the communications industry. She is also the recipient of the Entrepreneurship Achievement Award from the Greater Washington Women's Network.

At Lycoming, Lawson-Zilai was a member of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Circle K International, Habitat for Humanity, the Pennsylvania State Education Association and United Campus Ministries. She was a recipient of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Award as well as the Helen R. Hoover Community Service Award. Lawson-Zilai is also a graduate of the Denver Publishing Institute.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

The Lycoming College Clean Water Institute hosted the 4th annual summer intern gathering of the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Science on Friday, July 20.

The SRHCES – consisting of Bloomsburg University, Bucknell University, Kings College, Lock Haven University, Lycoming College and Susquehanna University, as well as Geisinger Environmental Health Institute – promotes collaboration in research, provides environmental education, improves water quality and addresses other environmental concerns related to the Central Heartland area of the Susquehanna River Watershed.

In 2011-12, more than 40 interns supported by more than eight foundations completed a variety of projects including Susquehanna River water quality monitoring; acid mine remediation; hellbender population monitoring; monitoring habitat, fish and marcoinvertebrate recovery following the September 2011 flooding of Loyalsock Creek and other impacted watersheds; additional unassessed waters fish surveys; and a variety of other projects targeting specific watersheds.

The interns will present their work at a poster session at the River Symposium on Friday, Oct. 12, at Bucknell University. The two-day symposium, titled "Exploring Our Vital Resource," will focus on the river's ecological health and its connection to the Chesapeake Bay, highlighting the research of scientists at the Bucknell University Environmental Center, the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey and other organizations. The SRHCES has been successful in raising $4.5 million for the renovation of the marina at Shikellamy State Park. This facility and its access to the river will create a focal point for researchers. Based on the current schedule, the research station will be fully functional for the summer 2013 field season.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College ranks among "America's Best Colleges," according to Forbes.com. The ranking includes the top 20 percent of the nation's undergraduate colleges – 650 in all – prepared for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington, D.C.

Rankings are developed by evaluating five general categories: post-graduate success, which evaluates alumni pay and prominence, student satisfaction, which includes professor evaluations and freshman to sophomore year retention rates, debt, which penalizes schools for high student debt loads and default rates, four-year graduation rate and competitive awards, which rewards schools whose students win prestigious scholarships and fellowships.

In its report, Forbes said its rankings focus on "the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt."

Lycoming College has been recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the best institutions of higher learning in the Northeast, and appears in Washington Monthly's 2012 liberal arts college rankings.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

In addition to their commitment to teaching and advising, Lycoming College faculty members stay current and active in their respective fields through a variety of research endeavors and participation in professional development opportunities. Recent accomplishments include:

Dr. George Adams, instructor of religion, published "Personalist Spirituality and Buddhist Anatman: Reflections on Contrasting Subjectivities, or, Why I Am Not (Quite) (Yet) a Buddhist" in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 2012.

Lynn Estomin, professor of art, screened her video, Out of Step, at the Bridgefest Film Festival in Vancouver, Canada; Dance on Screen 2012 in Eveleigh, Australia; and the Global Peace Film Festival, in Orlando, Fla. Her work has been included in the juried group exhibition, The End of War, at Northlight Gallery, Tempe, Ariz. In addition, she was selected to create a collaborative artwork for permanent installation in the emergency room of the Williamsport Regional Medical Center and commissioned to design a billboard for the Responsible Drilling Alliance.

Dr. Sascha Feinstien, professor of English, completed a new collection of poems, Ajanata's Ledge, which will be available in November.

Dr. Pamela Gaber, professor of archaeology and Judaic studies and director of the archaeological field school in Cyprus, completed "The Iconography of Goddess Worship in the Ancient Near East," to be released in a forthcoming collection.

Seth Goodman, assistant professor of art, is participating in a two-month Berlin artist residency funded by Lycoming College through a professional development grant. He is one of 10 residents in the program from around the world, including other professors of art from New Zealand, South Korea and Japan. Goodman has also been selected to be a part of volume 17 of Studio Visit Magazine.

Dr. Georg Grassmueck, assistant professor of business administration, presented "The Impact of Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling on Pennsylvania Municipal Road Expenditures" in July at a workshop, organized by the Southern Regional Science Association on shale energy, at Bucknell University.

Dr. Sandra Kingery, professor of Spanish, released a book-length translation, The Future and Its Enemies. In Defense of Political Hope, originally a philosophical text by Daniel Innerarity. She also translated four short stories, which were published by the online journal Suelta: "Family Portrait," by Liliana Colanzi, "The Other Man," by Federico Guzmán Rubio, "The Trouble with Having a Rhinoceros," by Claudia Hernández and "Rocacea," by Sofi Richero. In addition, Kingery released one academic publication, "The Evolution of Gender Roles in Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Petra Delicado Series," published in Cambios y conexiones: Latinoamérica y España. This summer, she was accepted to a four-week, all-expense paid artists' residency in Mojácarm, Spain, where she worked on another book-length translation.

Dr. Christopher Kulp, associate professor of astronomy and physics, spent the summer working on his research detecting critical transitions in the combustion process, which has potential applications in various industrial settings in where gas burners are used. Kulp worked with collaborators from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and recent Lycoming graduate, David Surmick '12.

Dr. Michael Smith, assistant professor of mathematical science, and Dr. Charles Mahler, assistant professor of chemistry, spent a week as faculty consultants for the PA3-MSP (Pennsylvania Math and Science Partnership) grant's Immaculata Institute, where they presented workshops integrating content knowledge and teaching ideas to elementary and high school math and science teachers.

Dr. N. J. Stanley, associate professor of theatre, published "Neil LaBute, Vigilante of Violence: An Examination of His Trilogy The Shape of Things, Fat Pig, and Reasons to Be Pretty" in Violence in American Drama: Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects.

In addition, Dr. Sue Gaylor, vice president for administration and planning, was appointed to a second term on the Small Institution's Council for the National Association for College and University Business Officers, which advises the association on programming and issues related specifically to smaller institutions within their membership. She was also one of 12 people chosen for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Periodic Review Working Group, which reviewed and made recommendations for updating the mid-cycle Periodic Review Report as part of the Middle States accreditation process.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College has been recognized as one of the best institutions of higher learning in the Northeast according to The Princeton Review. The education services company selected Lycoming as one of 220 institutions it profiles in the "Best in the Northeast" section of its 2013 Best Colleges: Region by Region feature available at www.PrincetonReview.com.

The Princeton review applauds Lycoming College for being "surprisingly rich in opportunity" for a school of its size, acknowledging its great resources and quality facilities.

Lycoming students surveyed for the review said: "The classroom is very interactive" and "professors are animated and fun." "Classes are small enough that professors get to know you," and "faculty is relatively easy to contact outside the classroom." "Not only do the professors want you to succeed, but so do the workers in the mail room and the coffee shop."

The 220 colleges The Princeton Review chose for its "Best in the Northeast" designations and "The Best Northeastern Colleges" book are located in 11 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the District of Columbia. A total of 633 colleges were named "regional best(s)," which represent about 25 percent of the nation's 2,500 four-year colleges.

"We're pleased to recommend Lycoming College to users of our site as one of the best schools to earn their undergrad degree," says Robert Franek, Princeton Review's senior vice president/publisher. "We chose it and the other terrific institutions we name as 'regional best' colleges mainly for their excellent academic programs. From several hundred schools in each region, we winnowed our list based on institutional data we collected directly from the schools, our visits to schools over the years and the opinions of our staff, plus college counselors and advisors whose recommendations we invite. We also take into account what students at the schools reported to us about their campus experiences at them on our 80-question student survey for this project."

The Princeton Review survey for this project asks students to rate their own schools on several issues - from the accessibility of their professors to quality of the campus food - and answer questions about themselves, their fellow students and their campus life.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Gallery will open its 2012-13 exhibition season with "Combat Paper," Sept. 13-Oct. 11, in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library. An artists' reception will be held Thursday, Sept. 20, from 4:30-6 p.m., with a gallery talk by David Keefe and Eli Wright.

"Combat Paper" is comprised of work from artists involved with the Combat Paper Project, which utilizes art-making workshops to assist veterans in reconciling and sharing their personal experiences, in addition to broadening the traditional narrative surrounding service and the military culture.

Through papermaking workshops, veterans use the uniforms they wore in combat to create cathartic works of art. The uniforms are cut up, beaten into pulp and formed into sheets of paper. Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to embrace their experiences in the military.

Through ongoing participation in the papermaking process, combat papermakers attempt to progress from creating works specific to their military experiences to expressing a broader vision of militarism and society. The works reflect both the anger of the past and hope for the future. Through the collaboration between civilians and veterans, a much-needed conversation is generated regarding society's responsibility to the returned veteran, an understanding of the dehumanizing effects of warfare and the role of art in society.

"The story of the fiber, the blood, sweat and tears, the months of hardship and brutal violence is held within those old uniforms," stated Drew Cameron, founder of the project. "The uniforms often become inhabitants of closets or boxes in the attic. Reshaping the association of subordination, of warfare and service, into something collective and beautiful is our inspiration."

The Combat Paper Project works out of art studios throughout the United States and has traveled to Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, where it has provided veterans workshops, exhibitions, performances and artists' talks. This project is made possible by a multifaceted collaboration between artists, art collectors, academic institutions and veterans.

In conjunction with the Lycoming exhibition, the College's art department is bringing two young veteran artists, Keefe and Wright, to present a public gallery talk and attend a day of art classes to work with students interested in hand-made paper processes. Keefe and Wright's work will be featured in the gallery exhibition and they are the co-founders of the Combat Paper New Jersey studio, based at the Printmaking Center of New Jersey. More information on Combat Paper can be found at www.combatpaper.org.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College President Dr. James E. Douthat, who will retire in June 2013, opened his 24^th and final year with his traditional State of the College address on Tuesday, Aug. 21. In addition to Douthat's comments about the College's best fundraising year in recent memory, summer improvements to the campus facilities and data on the Class of 2016, the faculty and staff in attendance received an update on the status of the presidential search from Marshall Welch III, a Lycoming trustee and chair of the search committee.

Douthat paid tribute to the more than 3,500 donors who contributed over $4 million during the 2011-12 fiscal year, resulting in Lycoming's third-best fundraising year ever. Included was a $1.1 million bequest to fund an endowed professorship, create new program opportunities in theatre and sociology and support student scholarships. The College also received major funding from various organizations, including the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation for an endowed scholarship program; the George I. Alden Trust to purchase new instrumentation for physics and to improve existing facilities in psychology; the AT&T Foundation to support the Academic Resource Center and its peer tutoring program; and several other leadership gifts to endow scholarships and enhance the physical plant.

"Perhaps our most obvious physical change added this year is the new artificial turf on the football field, an expensive project brought by the hard work of the development office and by members of our football coaching staff, both past and present," Douthat said. "The great donor response to their requests raised more than $900,000 during a four-month fundraising drive. The turf field has been installed without a dime of tuition or a penny of endowment funds going into the project." 

According to Douthat, the Class of 2016 is a diverse group geographically, ethnically and economically. Students arrived from 19 states and six foreign countries, including 11 from Vietnam. Fifty-seven of the new students have been invited to join the Lycoming Scholars program. Twenty-two are either high school valedictorians or salutatorians, and two individuals bring perfect 800 SAT math scores.

Douthat explained that while Lycoming passed its recent 10-year Middle States Commission on Higher Education review with flying colors, it continues to prepare additional information and assessment in response to the review. This year also formally begins the faculty's two-year review of the College's general education distribution system. Final details must be approved by the faculty and the board of trustees no later than spring 2014.

Welch informed the audience that numerous qualified candidates have applied for Lycoming's presidency, and he expects a fairly large inflow of additional resumes to arrive prior to the deadline of Friday, Sept. 7.

"The applications so far have come from a very high-quality group of candidates, including men and women of very diverse ethnic backgrounds and very professional paths," Welch said. He added that the candidates include seated presidents, chief academic officers and other college administrators from development, admissions and other areas, as well as a few non-traditional candidates.

The search committee, which is receiving guidance from consultant Dr. Tom Courtice of The Association of Governing Boards, will first meet to narrow the pool of candidates and will then begin to interview a select group. The committee will make its final recommendations to the College's board of trustees, which will select the institution's 15th president.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 36 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

For the 22nd consecutive year, Lycoming College will welcome nearly 1,200 students, volunteers and guests to its campus as it hosts the 34th annual Pennsylvania Free Enterprise Week.

Rising high school juniors and seniors from across Pennsylvania travel to the program, which educates students about the American free enterprise system by bringing them together with business executives from throughout the state. During the week-long event, student teams simulate the operation of their own company.

Keynote speakers include Timothy G. Shuttleworth, president and CEO of Eriez Manufacturing Company; Robert E. Merrill, president and CEO of CraftMaster Manufacturing, Inc.; Robert C. Wonderling, president and CEO of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce; and James M. Herr, chairman and CEO of Herr Foods, Inc.

The College and PFEW both benefit from the partnership, as the students also gain first-hand experience living on a college campus. "We are delighted to have such a large group of college-bound students spend a week on our campus," said James Spencer, vice president of admissions and financial aid at the College. "In any given year, 20 to 25 PFEW alumni will enter Lycoming as new students." Lycoming offers a PFEW scholarship to incoming students who are graduates of the program.

Lycoming hosts the first two sessions of PFEW from July 8-21. The program returns to Lycoming for July 29-Aug. 4 before its final week at the Pennsylvania College of Technology.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic vigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Twelve students are spending their summers as interns with the Lycoming College Clean Water Institute. Five major projects are being conducted under the direction of Mel Zimmerman, professor of biology and CWI director, and Dr. Peter Petokas, CWI research associate.

Projects include surveys of healthy crayfish and eastern hellbender populations in north-central Pennsylvania streams, evaluations of trout populations in unassessed waters of the Pine Creek and Lycoming Creek watersheds, water quality monitoring of the lower West Branch Susquehanna River, analysis of the impact and recovery of fish populations in two streams affected by September 2011 flooding in the Loyalsock Creek watershed, and the monitoring of water quality before and after best management practices are established on farms in the White Deer Hole Creek watershed.

Student participants include seniors Michelle Herman, Leslie Kester, Quentin Reinford, Fred Rogers, Clark Thomspon, Shannon Lesher and Laura Walter; juniors Chelsea Brewer, Chelsea Taylor and Cory Trego; and sophomores Lynette Dooley and Laura Shelmire.

The internships were made possible through grants totaling more than $30,000 and support from the Degenstein Foundation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group, the Pine Creek Preservation Association, the Lycoming County Conservation District and the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies.

View the CWI's 2012 Summer Research poster.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic vigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Department of Astronomy and Physics will offer a new major in astrophysics beginning with the 2012-13 academic year.

Students will have the opportunity to pursue a Bachelor of Science in the field through coursework in astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The 13-course major was created to provide extensive study in both astronomy and physics while preserving students' ability to complete their undergraduate degree in four years. Upon its completion, graduates will be prepared for advanced study in astrophysics or astronomy as well as all the other numerous and varied careers available to those who complete the traditional astronomy or physics major.

"Lycoming College astronomy and physics programs emphasis lab-based instruction," said Dr. David Fisher, professor and department chair. "It helps students grasp theoretical concepts if they can see them in practice rather than just read about them in a textbook. We encourage our students to use the wide array of equipment available in their areas of interest. It can be very rewarding."

Students are also encouraged to participate in a summer National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates, or equivalent research experience, during their course of study.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic rigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Chemistry Department is hosting five students this year for its summer research program.

For more than 20 years, the department has offered the program, hosting several students each summer for complex projects for six to 10 weeks. The department's entire full-time faculty works alongside the students, making the program a rewarding opportunity for all participants.

Students participating in the program include:

Laura Anderson '13, Williamsport, Pa.

Anderson, alongside Dr. Holly Bendorf, associate professor of chemistry, is developing new methods for the preparation of medium-ring oxygen and sulfur heterocycles using rhodium-catalyzed intramolecular hydroacylation. She has prepared hydroacylation substrates and is screening their reactivity with several catalysts. The oxygen and sulfur heterocycles are of interest due to their potential as pharmaceuticals.

Allyson Marianelli '13, Old Forge, Pa.

Marianelli is working in the lab of Dr. Jeremy Ramsey, assistant professor of chemistry. She is using electrochemical techniques to characterize organic films deposited on the surface of electrical conductors. The work has applications in the fields of computer memory design, chemical sensing and electrochemical catalysis.

Rory McAtee '15, Easton, Pa.

McAtee is preparing iron carbonyl phosphine complexes and measuring their Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Infrared spectra under the guidance of Dr. Charles Mahler, assistant professor of chemistry. He is looking for correlations between the measured spectral data and previously determined energies, and other properties, for these complexes. The data should provide a better understanding of similar catalysts.

Dave Sampsell '12, Lock Haven, Pa.

An important reagent in synthetic organic chemistry is the complex formed between samarium diiodide and the activating solvent HMPA. However, HMPA is cancer-causing and efforts to find a suitable replacement are on-going. Dr. Chriss McDonald, professor of chemistry, is researching to develop alternative activators for samarium diiodide which are not mutagenic and develop complexes of greater reactivity than samarium diiodide/HMPA. The complex discovered jointly by Sampsell and McDonald meets both of these goals.

Katie Wellmon '13, Guy Mills, Pa.

Wellmon is researching the nitrogen-directed intramolecular hydroacylation with Bendorf. This new chemistry allows for the rapid and efficient synthesis of benzazepines, compounds that exhibit a broad range of biological activity and are of interest as pharmaceuticals. Katie will continue her research during the upcoming academic year.

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic vigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

While most Lycoming College students are enjoying their summer breaks, the campus continues to serve as an environment for learning. More than 200 area elementary and middle school-aged students in grades two through eight are on campus July 23-27 for the 26th annual "Lycoming College for Kids and Teens" program.

Workshops, held each day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., are taught by dedicated and enthusiastic local volunteers and are designed to enhance creativity and problem solving while providing students with a variety of fun, academic opportunities.

"The classes are one-of-a-kind and more thrilling because they take place in an actual college lab," says Robin VanAuken, College for Kids director.

Each student participates in a morning and afternoon workshop, which gives them the opportunity to explore two topics of their choice. This year's program offers more than 20 different courses in subjects ranging from art to history and science. Examples of classes include Aeronautical Engineering, Ancient Egypt, Buds and Bugs, Candid Camera, Grossology, Weblogs and Social Media and Young Inventors.

Classes take unique and stimulating approaches to teaching students a variety of subject matter. For example, students in the Wizards Workshop are taught concepts in chemistry, optics and physics through Harry Potter-themed activities. Junior Journalists gives them the opportunity to write, edit and report for the Lycoming College for Kids online newspaper. Other classes teach students about simple machines using mechanized Legos, allow them to develop their own photographs and teach them how to create crystals and volcanoes.

"For more than 25 years, College for Kids has been the go-to summer program for parents who want to engage their children in unique, educational opportunities," states VanAuken. "The program is so successful that many of the students begin as first-graders, take classes each year until they're in high school and often return as teen volunteers. Some even return as adults to teach the very classes they enjoyed."

Lycoming College is a four-year, residential liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., the College fosters academic vigor, a supportive faculty and successful outcomes. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1812, Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The 2012 summer issue of Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature has been released. Dr. Sascha Feinstein, the journal's founding editor, is an English professor at Lycoming College. Feinstein is also the editor of "Ask Me Now: Conversations of Jazz & Literature," which compiles the first 10 years of interviews that first appeared in Brilliant Corners.

Two Lycoming alumni are included in the newest issue. Stephen Cramer, a 1997 graduate, publishes his poem "Sonnet Ending with a Line by Miles." Cramer has authored two poetry books, one of which, "Shiva's Drum," was chosen for the National Poetry Series. Zach Cioffi, a 2012 graduate, publishes his first work with "Night Bus."

The issue also features an interview with Grammy Award winner Laurence Hobgood. Hobgood performs with Kurt Elling and has played with such musicians as Lee Konitz, Clark Terry and Joe Lovano. A published author, his article for JazzTimes, "The Art of Trio," won a Deems Taylor Award.

Additionally, the issue contains poems by Richard Jackson, author of 10 poetry books, translator, multiple award-winner and previous recipient of the Order of Freedom Medal from the president of Slovenia for humanitarian and literary work; Betsy Sholl, author of multiple poetry books and Poet Laureate of Maine; and David Wojahn, former Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Jazz artist Peter Bodge provides the cover art and a selection of images from his linoleum prints.

Brilliant Corners is published biannually and features jazz-related poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A subscription costs $12 a year ($18 for international orders). Send check or money to Brilliant Corners, Lycoming College, 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701. More information can be found at www.lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners.

Published at Lycoming College, Brilliant Corners is funded in part by Lycoming College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and private endowments.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

 

Throughout the 2011-12 academic year, the Lycoming College Education Department has continued its commitment to scholarship and teaching practices through various research projects and presentations.

"The Lycoming College Education Department prides itself in service to the College, the students and the community. Our commitment to scholarship and best teaching practices is unwavering," said Dr. Amy Rogers, education department chair and assistant professor. "As we continue to grow, prosper and educate, we continue to use data-driven instruction and reflective practices to guide our department."

Last May, Dr. Marisa Macy, assistant professor of education, presented "An International Framework for Delivering Early Childhood Special Services to Young Exceptional Children and Their Families" at an international symposium in Taichung, Taiwan. At the International Society on Early Intervention in New York City, she presented "What Does the Research Show on Conventional and Authentic Assessment Practices for Early Intervention Eligibility?

Also in May, Dr. Rachel Hickoff-Cresko, assistant professor of education, presented "Reading Self-efficacy Perceptions of Urban Middle School Students in Relation to Gender, Grade Level, and Reading Performance" at the International Reading Association 56th Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla.

Hickoff-Cresko, Macy and Rogers presented "A Preservice Teacher Program" at the International Society on Early Intervention in New York City later that month. Their poster highlighted the unique features of Lycoming's education program such as supervised, freshmen-year field experience and access to an on-campus preschool run by Hope Enterprises, Inc.

In September, Macy presented "A Research Synthesis and Review of Developmental Screening Measures for Young Children" at the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics in San Antonio, Texas.

At the Pennsylvania Association for Colleges and Teacher Educators Annual Conference in October, the three faculty delivered a presentation discussing the creation of Lycoming's new certification programs aligned with the requirements put forth by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

Also in October, they discussed the Lycoming Education Data Analysis project at the Keystone State Reading Association conference in Lancaster, Pa. They presented the initial findings and implications of the project in relation to literacy across three certification areas: elementary, secondary and special education.

In November, they presented "The Training of Our Teachers: What is Best Practice?" at the 27th Annual International Conference of the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children in National Harbor, Md. Macy also delivered two solo presentations.

Later that month, Rogers and Hickoff-Cresko presented "What Do They Believe? Urban Adolescents' Reading Self-efficacy Beliefs" at the 38th Annual National Middle School Association Conference in Louisville, Ky.

In April, Rogers presented "So You Want to be a Teacher?" to the Hughesville (Pa.) Sr. High School Career Pathways Project. In addition, she published the Lycoming County's Women's History Curriculum Guide. Hickoff-Cresko was invited to present "Cognitive Engagement: How Can We Involve All Students in the Thinking" to the Susquehanna Valley Reading Council in Sunbury, Pa., in April.

Also in April, Rogers and Hickoff-Cresko presented "Informational Literacy: What Do Students Know, Need to Know, and How Do We Teach it?" to the West Branch Pennsylvania Library Association in Williamsport. They also presented at the Pennsylvania Association for Colleges and Teacher Educators Annual Spring Conference in State College.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College will host a Summer Preview open house for prospective students on Friday, June 29. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the program will commence at 10 a.m. from Pennington Lounge in the College's Academic Center.

Students and their families are invited to enjoy an informative day as they tour campus with Lycoming students, attend special interest sessions, meet faculty and enjoy lunch. They'll also benefit from the opportunity to meet other high school students and families as they engage in the college search process.

Registration and more information are available at www.lycoming.edu or by calling 1-800-345-3920.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College accounting students Daniel Angstadt, Kayla DeMar and Curtis Hoffer were recognized by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) for their achievements in accounting.

Angstadt, who earned a bachelor's in accounting and business in May, received the Outstanding Senior Award for academic excellence, dedication to accounting and pursuit of an accounting career. The award included a certificate, medal and one-year membership to PICPA.

DeMar, a senior majoring in accounting and business, and Hoffer, a junior majoring in accounting and economics, were each awarded multi-year renewable scholarships for their academic achievements and leadership potential. The scholarships can be renewed annually if the students retain a 3.0 GPA and pursue accounting degrees.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Melissa Pennycoff, a junior at Lycoming College pursuing a degree in business administration, discovered that it can take up to 25 bankers to help a college student better understand the fundamentals of a financial institution.

Pennycoff recently concluded a 14-week internship with the Muncy Bank and Trust Company during which she worked with 25 employees in 14 departments in order to receive a well-rounded picture of the specialization that has become necessary in community banks over the past decade. She received instruction in the bank teller, customer service, loans, deposit operations, collections, financial investment services, security and electronic banking departments.

"It's nice to learn real-world data that classes often don't show you. This experience has definitely given me some insight on what I want to do after I graduate," stated Pennycoff, whose work experiences at the bank prompted her to seek employment with a hometown bank after graduation, rather than a larger regional bank as she originally intended. "The people I worked with were so friendly, and I would love to work for a company that cherishes their customers and treats everyone like family as much as Muncy Bank does."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College's Robert L. Shangraw Athletic Complex will receive a major facelift this summer. Projects include the installation of FieldTurf to replace the grass football field surface at David Person Field and a prominently displayed bronze bust of legendary head football coach Frank Girardi. The field project is scheduled to be completed in time for the kickoff of the 2012 football season while Girardi's bust will be officially unveiled during the Warriors' Homecoming game on Oct. 20. Along with improving the overall aesthetics of the football stadium, the addition of an all-weather surface will help eliminate practice space issues at the complex.

A ceremonial groundbreaking for the project was held Wednesday, June 13. The project is set to begin on Monday, June 18.

"We are incredibly excited about the installation of FieldTurf and the much-deserved recognition for Coach Girardi," said Mike Clark, Lycoming's head football coach and director of athletics. "This project will help us to improve an already outstanding facility while at the same time honor one of the greatest coaches in college football history."

A vast majority of the $1.1 million project was raised during a four-month period beginning in January. More than 325 donors, including many former football players as well as individuals from the Williamsport community and elsewhere, made gifts to honor Girardi's legacy and strengthen one of the most storied NCAA Division III football programs. Fundraising efforts are continuing for both projects with special donor recognition available for major contributors. For more information, please contact Greg Bell, senior major gift officer, at (570) 321-4395 or bell@lycoming.edu.

Apart from the FieldTurf and Girardi recognition, several donors are supporting a redesigned athletic complex entrance and parking lot expansion, both of which are still in the planning and design phase.

"We're very excited about the opportunity to improve the football stadium," said Steve Wiser, Lycoming's assistant head football coach. "The improvement it will bring to the program as a whole and the advantage it will give us in recruiting under Coach Clark's leadership will be great benefits. The time is right to honor Coach Girardi in this special way and to strengthen the program he played a monumental role in building through the years. And it gives me great pleasure to say that these projects are being made possible through the tremendous financial support of many of our alumni and community members."

Girardi, who retired in 2007 with 257 wins during his 36-year career at Lycoming, is the 17th coach at any NCAA level to reach the 250-win plateau. The bust is a permanent way to recognize Girardi's character, leadership and excellence. Overall, the football program has won 14 Middle Atlantic Conference titles, has made 12 trips to the NCAA Division III playoffs and has appeared in two national championship games. During the last 40 years, the Warriors have won more than 71 percent of their games, compiling an impressive record of 282-113-5.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Pictured from left: Chair of the Board Peter Lynn '69, Chairman Emeritus Robert L. Shangraw '58 '04H, head football coach Mike Clark '93, 2012 football team captains Cody Moyer '13, Parker Showers '13 and Nate Oropollo '13, former head football coach Frank Girardi, assistant head football coach Steve Wiser '74 and President James E. Douthat break ground for FieldTurf at David Person Field at the Shangraw Athletic Complex.

Dr. Chriss McDonald, professor of chemistry at Lycoming College, has been approved for a $65,000 grant from the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society.

McDonald's grant proposal was titled "The Characterization and Synthetic Utility of Complexes Made from Samarium Diiodide and Anionic Phosphoramide Ligands." The submission took approximately three months to write and was based on initial results from studies conducted during a six-month period by McDonald and 2012 Lycoming graduate David Sampsell.

The $65,000 will be used to provide stipends for Lycoming students conducting research during the next three summers. Additional funds will be used to buy consumables and equipment for the Department of Chemistry, which has maintained an active student-faculty summer research program since 1988.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College building and grounds employees John Colocino, Stephen Koch and John Shaffer were honored at the Heroes Breakfast sponsored by the Northcentral Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Red Cross in downtown Williamsport on June 8. The trio received the Animal Heroes Award for rescuing a deer on campus.

Last fall, Colocino, Koch and Shaffer came to the aid of a frightened deer that became stuck in the College's fencing near the Admissions House. To calm the doe, they first covered her with a blanket before cutting the fence. Shaffer used his truck to transport the doe to a local creek, where they released her.

"We saw it as just being a part of our everyday job," Shaffer said. "It was an honor to receive the award, and we were in good company."

A total of eight awards were presented in a variety of categories at the event to celebrate the best of human spirit by honoring local individuals who have shown courage, kindness and quick-thinking by their actions.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi recently donated eight NOOK color e-readers to Williamsport's Community Alliance for Progressive Positive Action (CAPPA).

Nearly 80 e-books, appropriate for children in kindergarten through sixth grade, were purchased and loaded onto the e-readers and will be used by students and volunteers in CAPPA's afterschool program. This spring, seven Lycoming College students volunteered at the program.  

The College was awarded a $2,500 grant to purchase the e-readers and juvenile e-books through the honor society's Literacy Grants program, which was initiated to mobilize members and resources of Phi Kappa Phi and the higher education community to champion literacy initiatives.

CAPPA was founded in 2002 and offers programs aimed at improving the academic performance, character and self-esteem of local youth. It received a 2011 Organization of the Year Award from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.

Phi Kappa Phi is the nation's oldest, largest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Its chapters are on more than 300 campuses in the United States, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Each year, approximately 30,000 members are initiated. Since its founding, Phi Kappa Phi has initiated more than 1 million members into its ranks.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Dr. Susan Ross, Lycoming College professor of sociology, was recently awarded the inaugural Berthold Research & Information Competencies Award from the College.

The award will be given annually to a faculty member who has exhibited a commitment to research and information competencies in assignments, collaboration, curriculum mapping, professional development and scholarship.

As the recipient of the award, Ross will participate in one of Lycoming's Teaching Effectiveness events during the upcoming academic year, sharing ideas about how she has actively incorporated research and information competencies in the classroom. Ross will receive a cash prize supported by the College's Beverly Joyce Smithson Glad Fund.

Ross has been teaching at Lycoming since 1998. She earned a doctorate from the University of New Hampshire. She is the co-author of the book Deployed: How the Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq and is the editor of American Families Past and Present: Social Perspectives on Transformation. She contributes to courses in the sociology-anthropology department, the women's and gender studies program, and the interdisciplinary criminal justice program. She is the recipient of teaching awards from both the University of New Hampshire and Lycoming College, and is also the faculty advisor for Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society.

The award is named in honor of Dr. Howard Berthold, retired professor of psychology as well as the first and long-serving chair of the Faculty Library Advisory Committee. Berthold was a strong supporter of Snowden Library's instruction program.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College chapter of the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society inducted 15 new members this spring.

The international honor society recognizes academic excellence in business administration programs at schools accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs. Acceptance into the honor society is based on completion of at least half of the student's degree work and a grade point average in the top 20 percent of their class.

The new inductees were:

Kayla DeMar, a junior accounting and finance major from Middleburg, Pa.

Lauren Donkochik, a junior business-marketing major from Selinsgrove, Pa.

Nicole Gramlich, a sophomore accounting and finance major from Camp Hill, Pa.

Curtis Hoffer, a sophomore accounting major from Manheim, Pa.

Megan Keck, a junior business-management, business-marketing and finance major from Millerton, Pa.

Ngan Le, a junior finance, economics and business-management major from Hanoi, Vietnam

Mai Nguyen, a junior economics and finance major from Hanoi, Vietnam

Andrew Paulhamus, a junior accounting and finance major from Linden, Pa.

Melissa Pennycoff, a junior economics, finance and business-management major from Williamsport, Pa.

Duong Pham, a junior accounting and finance major from Hanoi, Vietman

Anna Rittmiller, a junior business-marketing and corporate communication major from Middleburg, Pa.

Hermann Shasha, a junior international business and heath care administration major from Perry Hall, Md.

Emily Smith, a junior accounting and finance major from Towanda, Pa.

Patrick Welteroth, a senior accounting, finance and business-management major from Williamsport, Pa.

Emily Zangara, a sophomore business-marketing major from Williamsport, Pa.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College Society of Physics students visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on April 3. The tour was hosted by Lycoming alumna Katie Pazamickas, a 2009 graduate who works as a contractor for NASA.

Students attended a presentation about the James Webb Space Telescope given by Dr. Jonathan Gardner, a team leader of the JWST. The group also attended a presentation by former NASA astronaut Dr. Pierce Sellers, who has been on three space shuttle missions and is the deputy director of the Science and Exploration Directorate at Goddard.

The tour concluded with a viewing of Goddard's four-story clean room and satellite testing facilities.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College English Department announces the release of the 2012 edition of the Tributary student literary magazine.

The publication, available at Lycoming's Streeter Campus Store, contains poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art from 17 Lycoming students of varying majors.

Four student works are featured as prize winners in the 2012 edition. The Poetry Prize was awarded to Chris Bernstorf for "Sunflower, Magnolia," the Nonfiction Prize was awarded to Jamie Pawlick for "Chroma," the Fiction Prize was awarded to Amanda Edens for "Black Lace" and the Art Prize was awarded to Phoebe Wagner for her photograph, "Enjoy the Lights," which appears on the publication's cover.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Yvonne Mitchell-Sarch, instructor of piano at Lycoming College, will host a free, public concert on Saturday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The concert celebrates her retirement from the music faculty at Lycoming after more than 20 years of teaching.

Mitchell-Sarch earned a bachelor's from Lycoming and was appointed to the piano faculty in 1991. She is an organist at St. Boniface Church in Williamsport and has performed for numerous instrumental and vocal artists, in chamber music, and as accompanist for area auditions and competitions, including pianist for the guest Master Class of internationally renowned flutist Eugenia Zukerman. She frequently appears with her husband, violinist Kenneth Sarch. Her musical collaborations have included performances at Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall in New York and the Basilica of the National Shrine in Washington, D.C. She is accompanist for the singing group Gesangverein Harmonia and teaches on the faculty of the summer STRING FLING music camp at Mansfield University. She has also performed with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra.

Joining Mitchell-Sarch for the concert are Kenneth Sarch, soprano Sara Bartholomew and pianists Erika Bohlin, Gary Boerckel, Kayla Sassaman and Steven Shade.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College was one of 605 colleges and universities that recently participated in the nationwide Recyclemania competition.

During the 10-week program, Lycoming's buildings and grounds staff collected plastic, glass, cans, cardboard and paper from receptacles across the campus. The recyclables were weighed and data was recorded weekly.

This year, the College recycled a total of 14,412 pounds of material, nearly 3,500 pounds more than what was recycled in 2011. Lycoming ranked 47^th in the nation in recycled weight per student for bottles and cans, 85^th in corrugated cardboard and 156^th in paper.

During the 2011-12 academic year, the College, thanks in part to its sustainability office and committee, as well as the Lycoming Environmental Awareness Foundation, has made significant efforts to increase recycling awareness on campus. The labeling of receptacles to make sorting of materials easier and almost 1,600 personal recycling bins made possible by a grant from the Alcoa Foundation has led to greater student participation.

The amount of recycled materials resulted in a waste reduction equivalent to eight metric tons of carbon dioxide, which is analogous to keeping four cars off the road or eliminating the energy consumption of two households during the 10 weeks of Recylemania.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

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 physics, held presentations for the students in the College's Heim Building and Detwiler Planetarium.

Along with Zimmerman, Lycoming biology student interns guided the Montgomery third-graders through three labs focusing on ecology, marine biology and the hellbender salamander initiative. In each lab, the students handled exotic animals, such as two bearded dragons. Erikson hosted a planetarium show.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College biology students Ethan Sellers, Amanda Kinnon, Christopher McAtee and Rory McAtee, accompanied by assistant professor Dr. Mary Morrison, attended the Lehigh Valley Society for Neuroscience Research Symposium at Cedar Crest College on April 21.

Sellers, a recent biology graduate, and Kinnon, a senior biology major, presented a poster with the results of their independent study and honors project titled "Morphological Analysis of Early Cerebellar Development in the Mouse: A Cryosection Study using Multiple Protein Markers." The trip was supported with curriculum enrich funds from the Office of the Provost.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College junior Tracy Jo Bowers, a German and music major from Red Lion, Pa., was recently awarded the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Undergraduate Scholarship to Germany.

Bowers, the fifth Lycoming student to receive the scholarship, will be attending Lycoming's affiliate university in Bamberg, Germany, next spring. She was chosen by a committee through a highly competitive selection process which included an essay and letters of recommendation from Dr. Len Cagle, assistant professor of German, and Dr. Fred Thayer, professor of music.

DAAD is an organization of higher-education institutions in Germany which promotes international academic cooperation. Its mission is to make it financially possible for students from the United States to study in Germany, to promote the study of German language, literature and arts, and to create a cultural experience for young German scholars all over the world.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's Better Together program recently received the national movement's Media Mavens award, resulting in a $500 donation to the United Churches of Lycoming County.

Better Together 2011-12, sponsored by the Interfaith Youth Core, impacted interfaith cooperation and diverse action issues on approximately 105 campuses across the country. Lycoming's campaign received the honor for consistently spreading its message and promoting events across multiple platforms.

The College's movement encourages all students to learn about one another's spiritual practices, customs and traditions through interfaith service, emphasizing the spread of justice and peace throughout the world, regardless of spiritual differences. A variety of student-organized programming, sponsored by Lycoming's campus ministry and community service offices, included service projects and panel discussions.

"I wanted to establish Better Together on campus because I believe we can no longer just tolerate and coexist with each other," said the group's president, Cori Mancuso. "We need to get together as people of different faiths with one common goal to make the world a better place for everyone."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Student-Pennsylvania State Education Association (S-PSEA) adopted St. Agnes Parochial School in Jefferson Parish, La., for its annual school supply drive.

The Lycoming S-PSEA's relationship with St. Agnes began in 2006 following the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina. Students wanted to work with a school affected by the disaster, and a partnership was arranged through the efforts of Barb Horn, education department faculty secretary, and a New Orleans-based friend and former College employee, Nancy Walker, who identified St. Agnes and coordinated the drive with the school's principal, Bridget Sinibaldi.

For its first donation, the College was able to send six boxes of much needed school supplies to St. Agnes. Horn also contacted a local company, Springs Window Fashions of Montgomery, Pa., which donated window blinds to replace all those the school had lost in the hurricane.

Horn had the opportunity to visit the school in May 2011. Upon the surprise arrival, she joked that she had "arrived from Pennsylvania and was here to inspect the window blinds." The principal, having never met Horn, knew immediately who the stranger was and the two formed a continuing friendship.

When Lycoming's S-PSEA approved another drive to benefit a New Orleans school this year, the choice was natural, and Horn again contacted Sinbaldi to make arrangements.

Julie Martinez of Williamsport, president of Lycoming's S-PSEA and a senior mathematics major seeking elementary education certification, organized this year's effort that was able to send a box of supplies and $100 gift card to the school.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College celebrated the 201^st anniversary of the signing of its charter with several events April 1-2. The charter for the Williamsport Academy, one of Lycoming's predecessor institutions, was received April 2, 1811. The College is celebrating its bicentennial this year in recognition of the school's opening in 1812.

On Sunday morning, April 1, Dr. John F. Piper Jr., Lycoming historian, led a walk to the gravesite of the Rev. Benjamin Crever, a founder of the College, at the Williamsport Cemetery on Washington Blvd. Dressed in period attire and acting as Crever, he gave a brief history of the man who helped move the College forward.

Following the walk, the procession returned to Lycoming's quad where excerpts from the charter were read, the alma mater was played from the College's carillon and a cannon was fired.

At noon on Monday, April 2, members of the campus community strolled along on a 1.3 mile Bicentennial Walking Trail, which stopped at historic sites around campus. An afternoon reception again featured an appearance and a few words by Crever, as well as a celebration cake.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College English Department, as part of the College's bicentennial celebration, will host a poetry reading on Wednesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in the College Archives.

The program will include works by deceased and living alumni, current faculty and students.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College will hold its 4^th Digital Media Video Annual on Wednesday, April 11, from 7-8 p.m. at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport.

The free, public event will include screenings of short narrative and experimental films by students from Lycoming. In addition, a special viewing of "Pumpkin" by Crossing the Frame Productions, a Lycoming student organization dedicated to the creation of videos solely by students, will take place.

The Woodruff Grand Jury Prize will be awarded to the student judged to have produced the best overall film. Tom Woodruff Jr. and his wife, Tami, are both Lycoming graduates. Woodruff, a native of Montoursville, Pa., and member of the Central Pennsylvania Film Office advisory board, garnered an Academy Award for his special effects work on the Meryl Streep film "Death Becomes Her." He also received Academy Award nominations for "Starship Troopers" and "Alien3."

Student videos to be judged include:

Brianne Charnigo & Tricia Mundell: The I A.M. Project

Sara Griggs: I <3 Video Games

Natalie Johnson: Composition of a Thought

Ryan Krebs: You Ever Have One of Those Days?

Jake Listorti: No Place to Call Home

Tom Lurie: What the Frac?

Christina Moliterno: Madeline

Christina Moliterno: Vulpes Vulpes

Chelsea Moore: A Nisbet Girl

Carl Neyhart: Alone

Kelsey Pope: Guilt

Michael Puchalski: The Universe

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

In celebration of its bicentennial year, Lycoming College will begin a Last Lecture Series in recognition of its retiring faculty members. The inaugural lecture will feature Dr. Gary Boerckel, professor and chair of music, in a concert titled "Encores" on Saturday, April 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.

Boerckel, along with students, alumni, colleagues and area professionals, will present a program of music and commentary from his 30-plus years of service to the College.

Musical selections include works that have been favorites of Boerckel's during the course of his tenure at Lycoming, and will be performed by some of the region's finest musicians. Leslie Cullen, Tim Breon and Robert Leidhecker will perform Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano; Yvonne Mitchell Sarch will be featured in Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico; and Bernadette Ulrich Boerckel will be the soloist in Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The concert will conclude with excerpts from Leonard Berstein's Candide.

"I am grateful to Lycoming College for my long career in the Music Department and for the opportunity to perform once more with cherished colleagues and former students," said Boerckel.

Boerckel joined Lycoming's faculty in 1979 and has been chair of the Music Department for almost 30 years. A native Philadelphian, he studied at both the Settlement Music School and Temple University before receiving undergraduate degrees in piano performance and European history from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. While a doctoral student at the University of Iowa, he served as pianist for the university's renowned Center for New Music. He has been a guest soloist with the Jupiter Symphony in New York City, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area, the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, the Susquehanna Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Ohio University Symphony Orchestra and the Mansfield University Symphony Orchestra. Numerous solo recitals, including programs devoted to ragtime and early jazz, have taken him to artist series, colleges and universities throughout the East Coast and Midwest.

Boerckel was the founding director of the Lycoming College Artist Series from 1981-87 and served as the director of the Lycoming Scholar program – which annually provides interdisciplinary seminars to more than 100 college honor students – from 1989-2002. He is the host of WVIA's weekly radio program Music to My Ears and gives pre-concert lectures for the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra and The Susquehanna Valley Chorale. Lycoming College's Concert at Noon series, which presents 20 or more free concerts each year, was inaugurated by Boerckel in 1980.

The Last Lecture Series is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Dean of the College.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College will recognize exceptional students, faculty and staff at its annual Honor Convocation on Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m. in Lamade Gymnasium.

The ceremony honors students with awards in academics, service and athletics. In addition, several awards will be presented to members of the faculty and staff. The program concludes with the presentation of the Chieftain Award. First awarded in 1952, it is the highest honor given to a graduating senior and recognizes the student who has shown the utmost dedication and leadership qualities while at Lycoming and whose academic rank is above the median of the preceding senior class.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

The Lycoming College Black Student Union will host a spring fashion show Sunday, April 15, in the Mary L. Welch Theatre. A reception with light refreshments will begin at 4 p.m. and the show will start at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

The program will feature Black Student Union members in clothing donated from BonTon, several pieces by professional designer Lori Ann Thomas, and selections from their personal wardrobe. Those wearing their own outfits will be judged by the crowd and a winner will be determined.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College's departments of criminal justice and criminology, and philosophy will host criminal justice expert David Kennedy on Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. Following the lecture, Kennedy will sign copies of his latest book, "Don't Shoot: One Man, a Street Fellowship and the End of Violence in Inner-City America."

Kennedy is the director of the Center for Crime Prevention and Control and a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

He has been praised for his unique approach to gang and drug-related inner-city violence. To deal with crime in major cities, he developed a three-pronged approach, which brought together gang members, social service agencies and law enforcement officials. His approach has had a positive effect in dramatically decreasing gang violence and has been implemented in many cities across the country.

Kennedy, a graduate of Swarthmore College, is the recipient of the Ford Foundation Innovations in Government award, the Herman Goldstein International Award for Problem-Oriented Policing, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police Webber Seavey Award.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College will host its annual Senior Art Show April 13-May 6 in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 13, from 5-6:30 p.m. The reception and gallery viewing are free and open to the public.

Lycoming students featured in the exhibit are: Meggie Adams of Perryville, Md.; Ivar Bastress of Cabot, Vt.; Ariel Burton of Erial, N.J.; Lacey Gustafson of Jamestown, N.Y.; Jessica Kissinger of Mifflinburg, Pa; Kiley Moesta of Lansdale, Pa; Lindsay Stern of Lawrenceville, N.J.; Joshua Troxler of Williamsport, Pa; Rene Pucilowski of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Amanda Welty of Towanda, Pa.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Michael Darough, visiting assistant professor of art at Lycoming College, was recently honored with an invitation to participate in "Diversity in German Education 2012: A Professional Development Seminar for U.S. Teachers to Germany."

The seminar, administered by the German-American Fulbright Commission in Berlin, takes place from June 30-July 14 at the Univeristy of Tübingen. Participants will receive an overview of the German school and post-secondary education system in order to enrich their own educational work.

The seminar also discusses the changing educational structures in Germany and Europe and the resulting responses and opportunities for German schools, teachers and students. U.S. educators will share their teaching experiences with German colleagues, students and program partners. One emphasis will be on demographic changes and diversity in society and in the classroom. The seminar intends to contrast and compare these issues with structures and developments in the U.S.

Darough earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Arizona State University, and has recently completed a Master of Fine Arts in photography from the University of Memphis. He has exhibited his artwork in galleries and universities across the country.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Lycoming College will host Dr. Zvi Stampfer, a Fulbright Scholar of Sephardic/Mizrahi Jewish studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for a lecture on Tuesday, April 17, at 4 p.m. in the Academic Center C-303. His lecture, "Islam and Judaism in the Cairo Genizah Fragments," is sponsored by Lycoming's Religion Department, Ohev Sholom Synagogue and the Fulbright Commission. A reception hosted by the Ohev Sholom will follow his presentation.

The Genizah fragments consist of 280,000 Jewish manuscripts (870 Common Era and later) found in the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat (Old Cairo), Egypt. The fragments are in many languages and assist in reconstructing the social, religious and economic history for the period between 950 and 1250. Among Jewish luminaries mentioned is Maimonides. The fragments originated in Egypt, the Land of Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Sicily and India.

Stampfer, an ordained rabbi, is a professor at the Ben-Zvi Institute in Jerusalem. Proficient in English, German, Arabic and various ancient languages, Stampfer has edited and translated books about the laws of divorce and Jewish law. He joined Bucknell University for the 2011-12 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar. There, he teaches two courses in Sephardic Judaism and researches medieval Iraq and Spain.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Office of College Relations earned two awards during the 27th annual Educational Advertising Awards, sponsored by the Higher Education Marketing Report. This year, the total public relations campaign for Lycoming's new admissions pieces was honored with a gold award and the annual President's Report received a bronze award.

All of the pieces were designed by Murray Hanford, publications manager. He has worked at the College since 1991 and has earned more than 60 awards for excellence in publications and new media pieces.

Awards were given to those entrants whose programs and materials display exceptional quality, creativity and message effectiveness. Lycoming won the awards in competition with colleges that have less than 2,000 students. Gold awards were given to only 201 institutions.

The Educational Advertising Awards is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the nation. This year, more than 2,900 entries were received from more than 1,000 colleges, universities and secondary schools from all 50 states and several foreign countries.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College recognized co-curricular student achievements on campus during its sixth annual Leadership & Service Awards Banquet on April 11 in the Recreation Center.

The greeting was given by 1976 Lycoming alumna Andrea D. Seuren, who established the event's Seuren Leadership Speaker Series in 2007 in memory of her parents. The series' purpose is to build a culture of leadership at the College that espouses service, ethics and critical thinking.

This year's Seuren Leadership Speaker was Carol (Marsland) Schoch, who earned a bachelor's degree in music from Lycoming in 1973. She is the founder and director of the Detroit Children's Choir, established in 2006. In the mid-1990s, she founded and directed the International Choir of São Paulo in Brazil, where she also established a choral program for children and teens. A native of the Philadelphia area, Schoch earned a master of music degree in choral conducting and vocal pedagogy from Oakland University. Early in her teaching career, her husband, David, also a 1973 Lycoming graduate, began his career with the Ford Motor Company, which took them to Ohio, Michigan, England, Brazil and South Africa. David is now chairman and CEO of Ford Motor China. The couple has three daughters.

The award winners are as follows:

Male Intramural Sports Athlete of the Year: John Roland

Female Intramural Sports Athlete of the Year: Katie Baldwin

Interfraternity Council Spirit Award: Myles Biggs of Lambda Chi Alpha

Interfraternity Council Service Award: John Hardy of Lambda Chi Alpha

Interfraternity Council Scholar of the Year: Daniel Angstadt of Phi Kappa Psi

Panhellenic Council Spirit Award: Tehrim Umar of Gamma Delta Sigma

Panhellenic Council Service Award: Natalie Johnson of Alpha Xi Delta

Panhellenic Council Scholar Award: Allyson Blizman of Alpha Sigma Tau

Interfraternity Council Man of the Year: Myles Biggs of Lambda Chi Alpha

Panhellenic Council Woman of the Year: Jennifer Gillin of Alpha Xi Delta

Fraternity/Sorority Advisor of the Year: Janice Ogurcak, professor of communications and advisor for Alpha Xi Delta

Chapter of the Year: Lambda Chi Alpha

Outstanding Program of the Year: Multicultural Awareness Group – International Dinner

Student Organization Advisor of the Year: Dawn Burch, secretary for Health Services and advisor for Campus Girl Scouts

Student Organization of the Year: Panhellenic Council

Outstanding Student Leader: Stephanie Robinson

Outstanding Community Service Program Award: Gamma Delta Sigma – Ellie's Pancake Benefit

Outstanding Community Service Fundraising Event Award: Alpha Psi Omega – Jerry Allen Memorial Talent Show

Outstanding Community Service by an Organization Award: The English Society

Senior Community Service Scholars: Alison Clark and Justine Bush

Volunteer of the Year Award: Laura Klym

Sister Vincent Humanitarian Award: John Best, coordinator of the Volunteers in Mission program of the Williamsport District of the United Methodist Church and chair of the VIM program for the entire Susquehanna Conference

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Joseph Andrie of Reedsville, Pa., was presented with Lycoming College's Chieftain Award during Honors Convocation on April 15. First presented in 1952, the award is the highest honor given to a graduating senior and recognizes the student who has shown the utmost dedication and leadership qualities while at Lycoming and whose academic rank is above the median of the preceding senior class.

Andrie, a biology major, will be spending his summer conducting research at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children's Hospital before heading to Penn State's Hershey College of Medicine in the fall. He plans to pursue a career in family medicine or pediatrics.

Andrie is the president of the Beta Beta Beta Biology Honor Society and the Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Health Honor Society. He also is a member of the Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemistry Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi International Honor Society, Phi Sigma Iota Modern Language Honor Society and Sigma Tau Delta English Language Honor Society. He has earned dean's list mention in each of his seven semesters at the College.

Andrie's participation in extracurricular activities also earned him induction into the IRUSKA Honor Society, given to nine students annually at Lycoming for significant contributions to campus life. In addition, he received the Jack C. Buckle Scholarship, awarded to a junior male student who has made an unusual contribution to campus life through leadership in student activities.

Andrie has served as the vice president of the Lycoming Pre-Health Society and the Campus Activities Board, where he was the chair of the Wilderness Committee. He is a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, a Spanish peer tutor, an organic chemistry peer tutor and involved in the PAL Program.

An accomplished athlete, Andrie became Lycoming's second men's swimmer to earn the Middle Atlantic Conference Scholar-Athlete award, and is the eighth student-athlete to earn the award in school history. A 2011 Capital One Academic All-District selection, Andrie was a huge factor in the pool for the Warriors during his four-year career. He was a seven-time Second Team All-MAC breaststroker and a member of seven more all-conference relay teams. He set the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke records as a freshman and broke both as a junior. He holds the 200-yard breaststroke record with his time of 2:15.15 at the 2011 MAC Championships. A two-time captain, he earned the 2011 Sol "Woody" Wolf Award, given to the Lycoming junior student-athlete who shows the most improvement in their first three years.

Andrie was crowned as Lycoming's 2011 Homecoming King and has volunteered in the Williamsport Regional Medical Center Emergency Department and the Lewistown Community Hospital Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Department. He volunteered with the Study Buddies after-school tutoring program for elementary school students, aided with the College's freshman orientation program and served as a resident advisor.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Three Lycoming College faculty and staff members were honored with teaching and service awards at the College's annual Honors Convocation on April 15. The awards are given on the basis of dedication and service to the College.

Dr. Susan Beery is the recipient of the 2012 Constance Cupp Plankenhorn Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. An assistant professor and chair of the psychology department, she joined the Lycoming faculty in 1999. Her research and clinical interests include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and other disruptive behavior disorders in children, psychological evaluation of children and adolescents, early intervention for children with psychological difficulties, and helping parents and schools better meet the educational and mental health needs of children and adolescents with learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral problems. Beery earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialization in children and families from the University of Miami in Florida.

Dr. Kerry Richmond, assistant professor of criminal justice, has been awarded the 2012 Junior Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching. She joined Lycoming's faculty in 2009. Her primary research interests focus on the effectiveness of correctional programming to promote the reintegration of offenders, specifically females, and she has presented her research at the American Society of Criminology conference meetings. In addition to her teaching and research background, Richmond also worked for several years creating alternative sentencing plans for federal and state defendants and developing parole plans for state inmates through the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives in Baltimore, Md. She earned a Ph.D. in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Edward Gabriel, associate professor of biology, received the Makisu Award, which the student body presents to a faculty or staff member for extraordinary service and dedication. He has taught at the College since 1977 and has served as the Health Professions Advisory Committee chair for more than 25 years. Gabriel earned a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University and his special interests include genetics, radiation and cellular biology.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College's physics and psychology departments will benefit from a $100,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust in Worcester, Mass. The grant will be used to purchase physics laboratory equipment and upgrade psychology classrooms and labs.

"Lycoming College is grateful for the generous and continued support from the Alden Trust," said Lycoming President Dr. James E. Douthat, noting that the College received a similar grant from the trust a few years ago for its biology department. "The upgraded labs will continue to foster a hands-on learning environment where our students gain valuable experience while engaging in collaborative research with our faculty. The grant will enhance the preparation of students in these two programs for graduate school and the many other paths that lead to their professional careers."

The physics department will acquire equipment in the areas of mechanics, electromagnetism, modern physics and condensed matter, and thermodynamics. During the last 10 years, 40 percent of the department's seniors went to graduate school in physics or astronomy, as compared to a national average of 35 percent, according to the American Institute of Physics, and in the same period, 45 percent of majors have been women, compared to just more than 20 percent nationally. Because of the department's emphasis on lab-based instruction, majors and non-majors alike learn experientially beginning in the freshman year.

Psychology is consistently one of the two largest majors at Lycoming. The department enrolls an average of 450 students per semester, nearly one-third of the student body. Lycoming is among just 5 percent of institutions nationally that offer introductory psychology with a laboratory component. In addition to classroom and laboratory renovation, the grant will fund a centrifuge and computers, along with built-in cabinets, benches and tables, for the department's biopsychology lab. 

Established in 1912, Alden Trust supports "institutions that demonstrate a combination of educational excellence, exciting programming, and efficient and effective administration" and capital projects that "contribute significantly to the intellectual growth of students and will enhance an institution's mission." 

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Led by instructor of music, Jason Laczkoski, the Lycoming College Music Department recently organized and hosted the first Lycoming College Saxophone Day in Mary Lindsay Honors Hall.

Students from Lycoming, Mansfield University and Pennsylvania State University, as well as high school students from Ithaca, N.Y., received instruction from world-renowned saxophonist and teacher Dr. Eugene Rousseau.

In addition to the master class taught by Rousseau, the event also included musical performances and workshops on entrepreneurship and technique.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Lycoming College biology students Brianna Lutz, Jordan Krebs, Jessica Lehman and Dillon Snyder attended the 88^th Annual Pennsylvania Academy of Science Meeting at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa., March 30-April 1.

Krebs, a junior biology and chemistry major, gave an oral presentation describing his research project conducted under the supervision of Dr. Jeffrey Newman, associate professor of biology, titled "Genome Sequencing of Lycomia zaccaria gen. nov sp. nov., Chryseobacterium haifense, and Kaistella koreensis and Comparison to Two Closely Related Genomes."

Krebs won first place out of more than 50 undergraduate oral.

Lutz, a senior biology major, presented a poster describing her research project conducted under the supervision of Dr. David Broussard, assistant professor of biology, titled, "The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Sympathetic Nervous System Output During Induced Mental Stress."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College has been ranked by Business First magazine as one of the 50 most selective institutions in their coverage area.

Business First, based in Buffalo, N.Y., analyzed the 2010 admissions figures for 98 four-year colleges within their Western and Upstate New York, Northern and Western Pennsylvania, and Northeastern Ohio coverage zone.  Colleges were evaluated based on the percentage of admitted applicants and scores on college-entrance examinations. Institutions were then compared to national averages. The study was limited to schools that processed at least 1,000 applications. Lycoming ranked 46^th on the list.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Lycoming College will hold its Class of 2012 graduation exercises May 5-6. Approximately 290 students will receive their degrees during the 164th commencement ceremony scheduled for Sunday, May 6, at 1 p.m. on the College's Quad. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held in the Recreation Center. Baccalaureate service will be held Saturday, May 5, at 4 p.m. in the Recreation Center.

Lycoming will confer four honorary degrees during commencement. Dr. David Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), will deliver the commencement keynote address and receive a Doctor of Divinity; Gene L. Dodaro, a 1973 Lycoming alumnus and the comptroller general of the United States, will receive a Doctor of Laws; Bishop Neil Irons, Lycoming emeritus trustee and executive secretary of the United Methodist Church's Council of Bishops, will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters; and Dr. Marshall D. Welch Jr., a longtime benefactor of the College, will receive a Doctor of Science.

The senior greeting at commencement will be given by Megan Bullick of Phoenixville, Pa. She is a double major in creative writing and French and is a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Sigma Iota. Bullick has been active on campus as a resident assistant, a student orientation staff leader, editor-in-chief of the student literary magazine Tributary, and in various other clubs and organizations.

The baccalaureate speaker is the Rev. J Marco Hunsberger, who served as Lycoming's campus minister from 1989-2007. Recipient of the College's 2007 Dale V. Bower Service Award, he was instrumental in starting Lycoming's chapter of Habitat for Humanity and the community service/learning class. Hunsberger is a third generation minister and has 41 years of service with the United Methodist Church. He earned a bachelor's degree from Mercer University and a Master of Divinity from the United Theological Seminary. Hunsberger and his wife, Beverly, have four children, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Warren, president of NAICU since 1993, is widely regarded as one of the most persuasive and influential voices for higher education. He is known as a tireless advocate for America's private colleges and for increased financial aid funding for all college students. Warren was a driving force on behalf of all higher education in shaping the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which was signed into law in 2008. In response to calls to dramatically increase the nation's college graduation rate during the next decade, he has led NAICU in launching "Building Blocks to 2020," a major effort to encourage and report on the role of America's private colleges and universities in achieving greater access to and completion of a college education. Warren spearheaded the Student Aid Alliance, an ongoing campaign of 50 higher education associations to expand student aid.

Prior to NAICU, Warren served as president of Ohio Wesleyan University for nearly a decade and held administrative positions at Antioch University and Yale University. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Washington State University, master's degrees with honors in both divinity and urban studies from Yale, and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Michigan. He also was a Fulbright Scholar in India and a Rockefeller Fellow at Yale.

Dodaro, recipient of Lycoming's 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award, is the eighth comptroller general of the United States and heads the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In 2010, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate for a 15-year term, upon the recommendation of President Barack Obama. Dodaro joined the GAO in 1973 and in 1993, was named assistant comptroller general for Accounting and Information Management. He was promoted to the chief operating officer of the GAO in October 2000, a post he held until March 2008.

Irons was a member of the Lycoming College Board of Trustees from 1998-2009 and served on the academic policy and nominations committees. He was elected trustee emeritus in 2010. From 1996-2001, he was president of the North American Section of the World Methodist Conference. Irons is a graduate of Davis and Elkins College, the United Theological Seminary and earned master and Ph.D. degrees from Vanderbilt University.

Welch and his wife, Mary, have been generous benefactors of the College and many other non-profits in the Williamsport area. The Mary L. Welch Theatre and the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall on campus are named in honor of Mrs. Welch. The Lindsay Memorial Chapel in Honors Hall was dedicated in memory of her father. Marshall Welch earned a doctorate in dentistry and orthodontia from the University of Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's Institute for Management Studies will host Dan Klingerman, president and CEO of The Liberty Group, as part of the James W. Harding Executive Speaker Series on Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in Heim Building G-11. Klingerman will present "Shale Gas Exploration: Driving an Economic Resurgence in Williamsport and Our Nation." The event is free and open to the public.

Klingerman's holdings make him one of the largest real estate holders in the region, and his specific focus has been the growth and revitalization of North Central Pennsylvania. Most recently, Klingerman has made significant investments in the downtown area of Williamsport, as well as the Marcellus Shale natural gas infrastructure.

The Liberty Group, a primarily real estate based investment company, has expanded to become the region's most successful private equity group. The group's foundation is based on solid principles and ethics and its employment base exceeds 4,200 individuals.

Klingerman is a graduate of Bloomsburg University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting/business administration and a minor in economics. He taught entrepreneurship at the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics for five years.

The James W. Harding Executive Speaker Series is named for James W. Harding, a 1938 graduate of Lycoming and native of Montoursville, Pa. Harding was an executive with Kemper Insurance. As the result of a grant from the James S. Kemper foundation to endow the series, students have the opportunity to meet and network with some of America's top business executives from numerous internationally-recognized companies and firms.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College will host Math and Science Saturday on March. 24 beginning at 9:30 a.m. The open house offers prospective students and their families an opportunity to explore the College's biology, chemistry, astronomy and physics, and mathematics departments, as well as special programs, such as pre-medicine.

Guests will be offered personalized tours of Lycoming's science and math facilities. In addition, they may attend up to three of seven lectures being offered: Choosing a Health Profession; Clean Air, Clean Water and the Environment; Biology…A World of Possibilities; Chemistry…The Central Science; Astronomy & Physics…The Final Frontier; Mastering Mathematical Science… Calculating the Control of Your Future; and The Out of Classroom Experience.

Lunch will be provided. For more information or to register for Science and Math Saturday, please contact the Admissions Office at (570) 321-4026 or visit www.lycoming.edu/admissions.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Tour Choir will hold a homecoming concert on Wednesday, March 21 at 8 p.m. in Clarke Chapel following its 10-day tour of southern California.

Under the direction of Fred Thayer, professor of music and director of choral activities at Lycoming, the choir will present a variety of selections themed "200 Years of Music" in honor of the College's bicentennial celebration. The choir's repertoire includes arrangements of "America the Beautiful," "Deep River," "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home," and "Ezekeial Saw de Wheel," pieces by Rosephanye Powell, J.K. Paine, Andrzej Koszewski and Aaron Copland, and a special composition, "Prayer for Lycoming," composed by Thayer with text by Lycoming alumnus Bryan Partner.

The Lycoming College Tour Choir consists of 40 students selected by competitive audition from the 115 member College Choir. Annually these students perform two weekend tours and a 10-day tour in the spring. This year's 10-day tour will take the ensemble from Ivyland, Pa., through six locations in southern California, including two concerts in San Diego.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Dr. James E. Douthat, the third longest serving president in Lycoming College history, plans to retire June 30, 2013. The announcement was made by Peter R. Lynn, chair of the Lycoming College Board of Trustees. Douthat was named president in 1989 and is in his 23^rd year at the helm of the College.

"President Douthat, without question, has been the major driving force for Lycoming College for nearly a quarter-century," said Lynn, who is a 1969 Lycoming graduate. "Under his leadership, Lycoming has undergone a remarkable transformation, moving from a fine regional college to being firmly established as a national liberal arts and sciences institution. President Douthat has worked tirelessly to strengthen the College's academic and financial foundations. In putting both in place, he not only orchestrated many positive changes at Lycoming, but he also created new opportunities for the College in the future. With great admiration, the Board of Trustees expresses its gratitude to him and his wife, Emily, for their hard work and long-term commitment to Lycoming College."

Lynn also announced that the board is in the process of formalizing the presidential search to select Douthat's successor. A search committee composed of trustees, alumni, faculty and students will be established. That committee will review candidates and recommend finalists to the trustees.

Early in his years as president, Douthat and the trustees set two overarching goals for the College. The first was to maintain and strengthen the academic program, and the second was to increase the endowment to ensure additional, on-going revenues to support student scholarships and other institutional needs. Today, Lycoming is consistently ranked as one of the nation's best colleges by U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com and The Princeton Review. Like many of the finest colleges in the country, Lycoming elected not to grow in enrollment and retain its focus on small classes taught by full-time teaching faculty holding the highest degrees in their academic fields. This year, students come from 31 states and 12 countries. One-third of the current student body now comes from out-of-state. Both U.S. News and the Washington Monthly recognized the College in 2011 for its unusually high graduation rate.

Under Douthat's leadership, the trustees adopted a new financial model, one which took time, effort and discipline to implement. The successful completion of three capital campaigns and the positive impact produced by the new financial model caused the endowment to grow from less than $19 million in 1989 to more than $160 million today. Several years ago, Lycoming was placed by Standard & Poor's on its short list of less than 90 "A" or higher rated educational institutions, a position it has maintained even in the current economic environment.

During Douthat's tenure, tens of millions of dollars have been spent on new facilities, including the Shangraw Athletic Complex, Recreation Center, Mary L. Welch Honors Hall and The Commons, an apartment-style student residential complex. Major additions and renovations have also been undertaken, such as the expansion of the Wertz Student Center. During the past two decades, the College moved into the Information Age as millions were focused on the growth and operational support of information technology and its integration throughout the academic curriculum of the College.

Numerous other educational enhancements were added during Douthat's presidency. Among them, the Office of the Assistant Dean for Freshmen to support the transition to College, the Institute for Management Studies to create a programmatic umbrella enhancing the programs of the business, accounting and economics departments, and the Visiting Scholars Program to bring directors, conductors, writers, ambassadors and others, some outside of academia, into the College's classrooms. The College now has 225 endowed scholarships, making it possible for hundreds of students to attend each year. Douthat also worked closely with various donors to recognize excellent teaching and scholarship through the creation of nine endowed professorships.

Douthat chaired the boards of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Middle Atlantic Conference, and the Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce. He also led the Lycoming County United Way Campaign in 1999. Additional voluntary service includes directorships of The Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities, The Pennsylvania Educational Telecommunications Exchange Network, WVIA Public Television and Radio, Williamsport Regional Medical Center and its now-parent body Susquehanna Health, the Lycoming Foundation for business development and the National Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities of the United Methodist Church. In addition, he has served as a member of the National Advisory Board of The School of Theology at Claremont (Calif.) and on the NCAA's Presidents' Advisory Group for Division III.

Prior to Lycoming, Douthat was the executive vice president of Albion (Mich.) College, having previously served as the dean for student life at Duke University. A native of Petersburg, Va., he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of William & Mary as well as a Master of Divinity degree and a doctorate in educational management, both from Duke. His family includes his wife, Emily, son, Mark, and daughter and son-in-law, Anna and Emanuel Stockman.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1educational institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College's General Services Building was destroyed in a two-alarm fire on Tuesday evening, March 6.

The fire at 137 E. Fourth St. was discovered about 9 p.m. by a member of the College's security staff, who was alerted by the fire alarm monitoring system in the Safety and Security Office. The officer immediately called 911 when he saw smoke coming from the structure. Flames grew to the height of the nearby Recreation Center, approximately 20 to 30 feet in the air.

"This is a significant loss for the College, but we are thankful no one was seriously injured," said Lycoming President Dr. James Douthat. "We also are very grateful for the efforts of the Williamsport fire and police departments and the several area volunteer firefighting companies that worked together to bring the fire under control. The College appreciates the various community members who have quickly responded with offers of support."  

The fire was under control by approximately 10:30 p.m. A city firefighter was injured in the blaze and was released from the hospital last night. No other injuries were reported.

The structure, utilized by the College's buildings and grounds crew, contained a variety of equipment and tools. The extent of the financial loss is unknown at this time. A clip of the blaze can be viewed here.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Lycoming College will host its eighth annual Relay For Life March 23-24 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the College's Recreation Center. All donations will benefit the American Cancer Society.

This year's theme is Board Games. Clubs and organizations will decorate board game-themed tables and provide snacks, activities and a variety of entertainment during the 12-hour walk-a-thon. Students and faculty will compete in volleyball, minute-to-win-it games and karaoke.

Opening ceremonies begin at 6 p.m. on Friday, followed by a Survivor Ceremony at 6:30 p.m. To donate, or view a complete schedule of events, please click here. Lycoming's chapter of Colleges Against Cancer hopes to surpass last year's $28,000 in total donations with a 2012 goal of $31,000.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College will host "For an Experience of Wholeness," a solo exhibition by Jessica Mallios from March 29 to April 13 in the Digital Media Gallery of the Mass Communication Building.

Mallios will hold a free lecture in the College's Fine Arts Lecture Hall from 1-2 p.m. on Thursday, March 29, followed by a gallery opening and reception from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Digital Media Gallery. While the lecture and gallery opening are open to the public, additional viewings are by appointment only.

"For an Experience of Wholeness" introduces Mallios' new body of work, part of an ongoing project that considers the relationship between spectacle and artifice. Drawing from experiences of kitsch and illusion, the work examines how our natural world is internalized and culturally replicated into framing devices and displayed objects.

For her exhibition at Lycoming, Mallios uses found and constructed ersatz-objects from the physical world in relation to the study and abstraction of light, historical origins of spectacle, and framed presentations.

Mallios earned an MFA in photography in 2005 from Bard College in upstate New York. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, notably at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Houston Fotofest; The Texas Biennial; Arthouse at The Jones Center, Austin; Jen Bekman Gallery, New York; Scalo Project Space, New York; Affirmation Arts, New York; Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; and The Mobile Archive Project in Tranzit, Poland. Her work has been featured in The Texas Biennial Catalog, Collectors Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Lakes Were Rivers #1, and Perspectives 168 Exhibition Catalog. She lives in Austin, Texas.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College History Department will host a lecture by Dr. Stanley Katz, professor and director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, as part of the 39th annual Ewing Lecture. His presentation, "Can the liberal arts college help to save our democracy?" is scheduled for Tuesday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Heim Building G-11. The event is free and open to the public.

Katz is president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies, the national humanities organization in the United States. His recent research focuses upon the relationship of civil society and constitutionalism to democracy, and upon the relationship of the United States to the international human rights regime. He received the annual Fellows Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2010 and the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2011.

Katz is the editor-in-chief of the recently published Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, and editor of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the United States Supreme Court. He also writes about higher education policy and publishes a blog for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Formerly Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton, Katz is a specialist on American legal and constitutional history, and on philanthropy and nonprofit institutions.

The author and editor of numerous books and articles, Katz has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Society for Legal History and as vice president of the Research Division of the American Historical Association. He also serves as chair of the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council Working Group on Cuba.

Katz is a member of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, the American Antiquarian Society, the American Philosophical Society; a fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Society of American Historians; and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Katz graduated magna cum laude with a major in English history and literature in 1955 from Harvard University, where he also earned a master's in American history in 1959, a Ph.D. in the same field in 1961 and attended law school from 1969-70.

The Ewing Lecture Series was established in 1973 when Robert H. Ewing, for whom it is named, retired after 27 years of teaching at Lycoming. His life was characterized by a deep religious faith, a passion for history and a strong devotion to a liberal arts education. These qualities touched the lives of all who came in contact with him and led his many friends to contribute to the Ewing fund to establish this series.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Veteran law enforcement official Howard Wooldridge will present "Alternatives to Drug Prohibition" on Thursday, March 22, at 7 p.m. in Lycoming College's Heim Building G-09. The presentation is sponsored by Lycoming's departments of criminal justice and criminology, philosophy, political science and psychology.

Wooldridge served 18 years on the police force in Bath Township, Mich., and retired as a detective in 1994. Shortly thereafter, he became a bilingual speaker promoting an end to the war on drugs at Texas Rotary and Kiwanis clubs.

In 2002, he and four colleagues founded Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), where he served on the board of directors from 2002-07 and represented LEAP in Washington, D.C., from 2005-09.

In 2003, Wooldridge rode horseback from Georgia to Oregon to educate Americans on the failure of modern prohibition. In 2005, he became the first person in the 21^st century to ride a horse coast to coast in both directions when he journeyed from Los Angeles to New York City advocating a public health approach to drugs. Due to his efforts, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

The Lycoming College chapter of Alpha Psi Omega theatre honors fraternity will host the Jerry Allen Memorial Talent Show on Thursday, March 22, at 9 p.m. in the East Hall Coffeehouse. Admission is $1 for Lycoming students and $2 for the public.

Acts will include student instrumentalists, vocalists and dramatists. Alpha Psi Omega plans to use the proceeds to make a donation to the theatre department in Allen's memory. Allen, an associate professor of theatre who joined Lycoming's faculty in 1984, passed away unexpectedly Jan. 17, 2012.

Alpha Psi Omega is a national honorary dramatic fraternity with more than 550 casts at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College English Department will welcome award-winning poet Matthew Dickman for a reading on Monday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Clarke Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Dickman is the poetry editor of Tin House magazine. He is the author of two chapbooks, "Amigos" and "Something about a Black Scarf." His first book, "All-American Poem," won the Honickman First Book Prize.

His poems have appeared in McSweeny's Ploughshares, The Believer, The London Review of Books, Narrative Magazine and The New Yorker, among others. "50 American Plays," a book of poem-plays co-written with twin brother and poet Michael Dickman, will be available later this month from Copper Canyon. His third book, "Mayakovsky's Revolver," will be released by Norton this fall.

Dickman is the recipient of the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award from Literary Arts of Oregon. He has also been honored with writing fellowships from the Michener Center, Vermont Studio Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Dickman lives in Portland, Ore. When he is not attending a writer's residency, he works in a bakery, where he can "shape five baguettes in under three minutes."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

Robert K. Wittman, a former FBI agent and author of "Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures,"will speak at Lycoming College as part of the 13th annual Larry Strauser Lectureship in Criminal Justice on Thursday, April 5, at 11:30 a.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. He will discuss international art theft and stolen cultural property. The event is free and open to the public.

Wittman joined the FBI as a special agent in 1988 and was assigned to the Philadelphia Field Division. As a result of specialized training in art, antiques, jewelry and gem identification, he served as the FBI's investigative expert in this field. During his 20-year career, he recovered more than $225 million in stolen art and cultural property resulting in the prosecution and conviction of numerous individuals.

In 2005, Wittman was instrumental in the creation of the FBI's rapid deployment Art Crime Team (ACT). He was named ACT's senior investigator and instructed the team members in how to conduct cultural property investigations. Conducting investigations and instructing international police and museums in investigation, recovery and security techniques, he has represented the United States around the world.

Whitman spent much of his career travelling, undercover and usually unarmed, to rescue paintings by Rockwell, Rembrandt, Monet and Picasso, the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian king, the headdress Geronimo wore at his final pow-wow and the rare Civil War flag carried into battle by one of the nation's first African-American regiments. He also recovered an original copy of the Bill of Rights and cracked the scam that rocked the PBS series "Antiques Roadshow."

In 2010, Wittman published his memoir "Priceless: How I went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures," which recounts his career and activities while working as an undercover agent. He continues to use his expertise as an art security consultant for the private sector.

The Strauser Lecture Series, sponsored by Lycoming's criminal justice department, is held each year to honor the memory of Larry Strauser, a 1959 Lycoming graduate and member of the College's faculty from 1973 until his death in 1999. Strauser, who earned a master's in public administration from the University of Arizona, started the interdisciplinary criminal justice program at Lycoming in 1977.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Chamber Choir will present a free, public concert on Friday, March 30, at 8 p.m. in the College's Clarke Chapel.

Under the direction of Dr. Fred Thayer, professor of music, the choir will perform excerpts from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" with soprano Emily Wertz and "Requiem" by John Rutter. Featured instrumentalists will include Reuben Councill, flute; Linda Fountain, oboe; Andrew Rammon, cello; Donald Fisher, timpani; and Richard Lakey, piano.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Concert Band will perform on Thursday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Arts Center in downtown Williamsport. The program is free and open to the public.

Under the direction of William Ciabattari, assistant professor of music, the band will perform selections by Percy Grainger, Eric Whitacre, Bernard Heiden and John Williams. Eugene Rousseau, an internationally-acclaimed saxophonist, will be a soloist in Heiden's "Divisions," and will be joined by Lycoming saxophone instructor Jason Laczkoski in "Variations on the Carnival of Venice."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department, in cooperation with the Office of the Provost, will host an Intercollegiate Art History Symposium on Friday, March 30, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in College's Fine Arts Building 107. This event is free and open to the public.

The symposium invites students from Lycoming College, Bloomsburg University, Bucknell University, Gettysburg College, Juniata College, Lebanon Valley College and Susquehanna University to present their original research topics.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College recently received nearly 1,600, 6-gallon recycling bins from the Alcoa Foundation, in partnership with Keep America Beautiful and the College & University Recycling Coalition, as part of its national bin grant program during the 2012 RecycleMania collegiate recycling competition. The program is an effort to help schools boost their results during the competition and expand their recycling collections throughout the year.

The Alcoa Foundation has awarded 32 grants to colleges and universities, distributing 20,000 recycling bins around the country. Lycoming has placed the blue bins in every residence hall room and the remainder will be for faculty and staff offices and various common areas.

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. During the competition, which began Feb. 5 and runs through March 31, participating schools vie for top awards in nine categories to see which schools recycle the most on a per capita basis, produce the least amount of waste and recycle the largest percentage of their overall waste. Last year, Lycoming recycled approximately 11,000 pounds of material. The College has participated in RecycleMania since 2001.

"The Alcoa Foundation grant helps Lycoming College execute its commitment to recycling and sustainability," said Dr. Sue Gaylor, vice president of administration and planning. "The new recycling bins are one of several successful initiatives that the Sustainability Office has achieved in 2011-12."

Established in fall 2011, Lycoming's Sustainability Office is led by three students, coordinator Alyssa Tomaskovic and co-coordinators Zeb Buck and Laura Walter. In addition to spearheading the College's 2012 RecycleMania competition, they have led a "Flip It Off" campus energy conservation campaign and produced a PSA video to encourage others to recycle. The office also regularly contributes a sustainability article to Green Corner, a new column in The Lycourier student newspaper. The sustainability student team also supports the work of Lycoming's Sustainability Committee, a group of more than 20 students, faculty and administrators who meet regularly throughout the academic year to discuss, plan and implement sustainability initiatives across campus.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

The Lycoming College Peer Tutoring Program has received a $20,000 contribution from AT&T to train high academic achieving students to serve as tutors in the College's Academic Resource Center. Lycoming, nationally recognized for its high graduation rate, will use the contribution to ensure those who seek the services of the Center will find tutors available to work with them in a wide variety of disciplines.

Lycoming President Dr. James Douthat joined J. Michael Schweder, president of AT&T Pennsylvania and a 1971 Lycoming alumnus; State Sen. Gene Yaw, Lycoming class of 1970; and Jacque Bell, constituent service manager to Congressman Tom Marino, a 1985 Lycoming alumnus, in making the announcement.

"The generous support from AT&T will make a real difference to those who may need guidance in transitioning from high school to the rigors of Lycoming's academic program," Douthat said. "It will also serve those students seeking to improve their academic performance in specific courses. The College's curriculum is designed to emphasize the intellectual skills developed through both the academic major and the broad study of other disciplines. This grant will expand the services of the College's Peer Tutoring Program by pairing more of our most academically successful students with others who are in the process of developing those key learning skills."

"We know that some students may need extra academic assistance on occasion and AT&T wants to support their efforts," Schweder said. "This contribution will keep those students on track for graduation and better prepare them for both personal and professional success."

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Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

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Who: Lycoming College Center for the Study of Community and the Economy

What: Tackling Marcellus' Effects on Housing Needs Together

When: Tuesday, April 3, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Note: This event is by invitation only and not open to the public.

The Lycoming College Center for the Study of Community and the Economy is hosting a housing summit that will bring together social service agencies, private sector developers, bankers, realtors and other local stakeholders who are affected by the increased housing demand and resulting housing shortage. Also, federal and state funding agencies will be represented. More than 100 individuals have registered for the event.

The day is planned to provide a means of communication between the groups affected and the state agencies and private companies that can provide relief. Information will also be provided on HB1950 Marcellus Shale Impact Fee Legislation and its effect on housing. In addition, natural gas industry officials will discuss their regional plans.

The summit, organized by professors Bonita Kolb and Jonathan Williamson, is sponsored by the Lycoming College Center for the Study of the Community and the Economy, and the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.

State and federal housing related agencies speakers will include:

-          U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

-          Federal Reserve Bank

-          Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency

-          Pennsylvania Office of Long-Term Living

-          State Housing Director

-          Office of Rural Development

The day will consist of four sessions:

-          Session One: Marcellus Effect on Housing Research Findings

-          Session Two: Panel of Local Profit and Nonprofit Stakeholders on the New Reality

-          Session Three: Presentation on State and Federal Resources Available

-          Session Four: Working Session Linking Resources with Solutions

CLICK HERE to access CSCE's study titled Marcellus Natural Gas Development's Effect on Housing in Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will present Brandon Thomas' "Charley's Aunt" April 11-14 at 8 p.m. in the College's Mary L. Welch Theatre. The play is recommended for general audiences.

"Charley's Aunt" is the story of Oxford pals Jack and Charley. The friends invite their two love interests to meet Charley's wealthy aunt from Brazil. When she cancels at the last minute, the men are thrown into calamity. Charley convinces another feckless friend to pose as his absent aunt, and a classic comic confusion ensues.

Grechen Lynne Wingerter, adjunct instructor of theatre, will direct the production. Cast members include Lycoming students Tobias Anderson of Watsontown, Pa.; Taylor Anspach of Milton, Pa.; Nathan Bahn of Abbottstown, Pa.; Sarah Beddingfield of Colorado City, Texas; Taylor Granger of Wernersville, Pa.; Chase Mack of Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Krista Peterson of Dewart, Pa.; Tom Robinson of Rumson, N.J.; and Jesse Shade of Woolrich, Pa.; as well as local talent Diane Robertson.

The production was slated to be directed by Jerry Allen, former associate professor of theatre. Allen passed away unexpectedly Jan. 17, 2012.

"'Charley's Aunt' was one of Jerry's favorite plays," said Dr. N.J. Stanley, associate professor and chair of the theatre department. "He directed it here at Lycoming in 1990 and was really excited about bringing it to our stage again. We thought it only fitting to dedicate this production to Jerry, whose spirit is still everywhere in the department."

Tickets can be purchased at the Mary L. Welch Theatre box office, or by calling 570-321-4048. The box office is open weekdays from 1-4 p.m. and beginning at 6:30 p.m. on the evenings of the performances.

A special "Dinner and a Show" package is scheduled for Friday, April 13. Tickets are $18 per person and must be reserved in advance. Those with advance tickets will enjoy a themed, pre-show dinner in the College's Jane Shultz Room.

For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu/theatre.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College scheduled several events in celebration of Black History Month. The events were sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, Black Student Union, Black History Month Committee, Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development and Office of Alumni Relations.

Lycoming's seventh annual Black History Month Dinner was held Saturday, Feb. 4, at 6 p.m. in the College's Wertz Student Center. The guest speaker was V. Chapman-Smith, a 1972 Lycoming graduate. She is the regional strategic liaison in the Office of the Chief Operations Officer at the National Archives at Philadelphia. Reservation required.

Lycoming President Dr. James Douthat held a fireside chat on Monday, Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in Snowden Library. He shared his experiences of meeting civil rights leaders Rosa Parks, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and the Rev. Joseph Lowery.

A movie screening of "The Blind Side" was held in Heim G-11 on Feb. 10 and 12 at 10:30 p.m. and Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. A 2010 Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, the film is an adaptation of the 2006 book, "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game," by Michael Lewis. It's based on the true story of Michael Oher, who was adopted by a family in Memphis, Tenn., and later becomes a blue-chip football star, All-American and NFL first-round draft pick.

Snowden Library is hosting a display designed by the Lycoming College Archives titled "Student Historical Moments through the Years." It will begin Monday, Feb. 13, and remain on display through the end of February.

The 8^th annual Lycoming College Read-In, featuring Kathryn Stockett's "The Help," was held Saturday, Feb. 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., near the Snowden Library fireplace. The novel is about African-American maids working in white household in Jackson, Miss., during the early 1960s. Student groups and organizations will read the book out loud during one-hour time slots.

Dr. Richard Hughes, professor of religion at Lycoming, held a fireside chat titled "Mourning in the Civil Rights Movement," on Monday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in Snowden Library.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Music Department will host a Concert at Noon on Thursday, Feb. 16, in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. William Ciabattari, Lycoming assistant professor of music, and his wife, Rebecca, instructor of music, will perform a recital of tuba and trombone music by Bernstein, Rimsky-Korsakov, Arban, Sulek and Catozzi. They will be accompanied by Gary Boerckel, professor and chair of music, on piano.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Campus Activities Board (CAB) will host the contemporary Christian band Tim Be Told on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. in the College's Recreation Center. The performance is free and open to the public.

Combining elements of pop, rock and soul, Tim Be Told consists of songwriter and frontman Tim Ouyang, guitarist Andrew Chae and drummer Caleb Wu. Since tracking its debut album "Getting By" in summer 2007, the band has toured extensively from coast to coast. Their current tour is in support of their latest recording, "Humanity." More information on the band can be found at www.timbetold.com.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College's Snowden Library will host its eighth annual Read-In featuring Kathryn Stockett's "The Help" on Saturday, Feb. 25, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event is in partnership with the College's Black History Month Committee.

Groups of up to eight students representing various campus organizations are collecting donations and will read for one-hour intervals during the seven-hour program, which takes place on the library's first floor. Refreshments will be provided by the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs.

All proceeds benefit The Campbell Street Family, Youth & Community Association, Inc.

For more information, contact Alison Gregory, assistant professor and instructional services librarian, at gregory@lycoming.edu.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

The Lycoming College Department of Astronomy and Physics will host a free public lecture by H. Paul Shuch, executive director emeritus of the SETI League, Inc. and former Lycoming visiting professor, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. in Heim G-11.

Shuch will discuss his book, "Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence," a collection of essays written by scientists and engineers who have led and continue to lead the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. A book signing will follow the lecture.

"The notion that humanity shares the universe with other sentient beings probably predates recorded history," said Shuch. "Since first we realized that the points of light in the night sky are other suns, we have gazed heavenward, and asked 'are we alone?' In the mid-20th century, for the first time, we began to develop the technologies with which we might seek a definitive answer to this ages-old question."

Shuch is a retired professor of physics, astronomy and engineering. In addition to his work with the SETI League, a grass-roots alliance of amateur and professional radio astronomers with 1,500 members in 62 countries, his accomplishments include designing the first commercial home satellite receiver, developing low-cost amateur radio telescopes and touring the world as musician and lecturer under the stage name Dr. SETI.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College alumnus Michael Smith will present "Mars Science Laboratory: Going beyond the 'follow the water' strategy," on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in Academic Center C-303 as part the astronomy and physics department colloquium. He will give an overview of the Mars Science Laboratory mission and share his experience at the mission launch and Mars Educator Conference.

Smith is a 1999 Lycoming graduate and senior astronomy educator at the North Museum of Natural History and Science in Lancaster, Pa.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

 

Dr. Rebecca Gilbertson and Dr. Tina Norton, assistant professors of psychology at Lycoming College, have received a grant from 3^rd Millennium Classrooms to study the effectiveness of personalized web-based alcohol prevention programs among college students.

A private company, 3^rd Millennium Classrooms provides online alcohol and drug prevention and intervention courses.

Gilbertson and Norton have published widely in areas related to alcohol, caffeine and nicotine use in journals such as Addictive Behaviors, Drugs: Education, Prevention, & Policy, Journal of Caffeine Research, Journal of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, and the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Gilbertson earned a bachelor's degree from Concordia College and a master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Kentucky. Norton earned a bachelor's and master's degree from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a doctoral degree from Kent State University.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

 

The Lycoming College Music Department will host the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra's "Mostly Mozart" concert on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.

The program will feature the orchestra's woodwinds and horns performing music by Mozart, as well as Brahms' "Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano." Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door or by calling 321-4016 weekday mornings.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department will host visiting artist William Powhida's "Multiples" from March 1-April 1 in the College's Art Gallery in Snowden Library. An artist reception and gallery talk will be held Friday, March 23, from 4-5:30 p.m.

"Multiples" is an exhibition of prints and multiples in a variety of media, including etchings, silkscreens, digital print editions and drawings. Powhida's exhibit sheds light on the hidden, unspoken and private practices and rituals of the art world, while also commenting on his own struggles within the fiercely competitive field.

Powhida earned his M.F.A in painting from Hunter College in 2002. In addition to his work as a visual artist, he is a former art critic. Powhida has exhibited internationally and his work has been discussed in The New York Times, Art Forum and Art in America.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Department of Sociology and Anthropology will host author Seamus McGraw on Friday, March 2, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.

McGraw will discuss his book "The End of Country," which details the battle for control between corporate America and local residents in northeastern Pennsylvania that ensued after the discovery of the Marcellus gas deposits in the region. McGraw is a native of the region and his mother was one of the first to receive a leasing offer. His book opens a window on a stiff-necked group of Pennsylvanians as they try to balance the promise and the peril of this discovery.

McGraw is a full-time writer who has been published in Reader's Digest, Radar, Spin and The Forward. He received the Freedom of Information Award from the Associated Press Managing Editors, and honors from both the Casey Foundation and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Education Department will host a presentation by Michael Pawlik, superintendent of the East Lycoming School District, on Wednesday, March 7, at 7 p.m. in Heim Building G-11.

Pawlik will discuss revisions to the state's teacher evaluation model from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The presentation is free and open to the public.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Multicultural Awareness Group (MAG) of Lycoming College will hold its 15^th annual International Dinner on Saturday, March 3, at 6 p.m. in the Jane Shultz Room.

This year's theme will be "Beyond the Stream of Time," in recognition of the College's bicentennial celebration. Students from Vietnam, China, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Spain, Afghanistan and the United States will host the dinner, with the guidance of Jean Wool, executive assistant for student affairs and MAG advisor.

As a tradition, international students and foreign faculties will prepare dishes from their countries. Pre-dinner entertainment will be provided by the a cappella group, "The Other Guys."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College's English Society will host "Medieval Lyco" on Saturday, March 3, from 12-4 p.m. in Pennington Lounge.

Medieval Lyco will feature themed events such as tricycle jousting, tarot card reading, life-sized chess, fencing demonstrations, photo portraits, medieval re-enactments and live period music.

Artwork and sculptures created by Lycoming students exclusively for the event will be on display. Several Lycoming clubs and organizations will be taking part in the event. Some will be selling food items, while others will be hosting games or fundraising activities.

Dr. Todd Preston, English Society advisor and assistant professor of English, and Dr. Cullen Chandler, assistant professor of history, will be engaging in a jousting competition, followed by short discussions on medieval literature and history.

Medieval Lyco was last held in 2010. This is first year it will be hosted by the English Society.

"The English Society was disappointed last year when Medieval Lyco did not happen; despite our small size, we were obliged to see an event similar to the one held two years ago," said Brandon Sellers, junior and English Society treasurer.

For more information, contact Sellers at selbran@lycoming.edu.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

 

Lycoming College's Medieval Studies program sponsored a student trip to Washington, D.C.'s National Geographic Museum to view it's latest medieval exhibit. Dr. Todd Preston, assistant professor of English, and Dr. Cullen Chandler, assistant professor of history, led the trip.

The exhibit, "The Anglo-Saxon Hoard: Gold from England's Dark Ages," featured more than 100 gold and jeweled artifacts from the largest find of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever discovered. Found in rural Staffordshire in 2009, the collection of golden weapon fixtures, devotional objects and decorative art dates to the seventh century and has been called the most important archeological find of the century.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Lycoming College will host a career fair on Thursday, March 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Lamade Gymnasium. Co-sponsored by Clear Channel Radio and Lycoming College Career Services, the event is open to the public.

Representatives from companies such as Aflac, Baltimore Life and Frito-Lay, as well as local businesses, will be present to discuss employment and internships opportunities. Interested individuals are encouraged to wear formal dress and bring multiple copies of their resume.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. 

 

Five Lycoming College students have been selected for the 65^th annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival, scheduled for March 9-12 at California University of Pennsylvania. Bill Blachly, Andrea Burleigh, Kelly Ciesla, Sara Petokas and Lucas Reckling are among 100 students in the state to receive the honor.

Blachly, who plays bassoon, is a senior archaeology/culture of the ancient Near East and religion major from Sewell, N.J.

Burleigh, who plays trombone, is a freshman English literature major seeking education certification from Pleasant Mount, Pa.

Ciesla, who plays bass clarinet, is a junior art major from Eastampton, N.J.

Petokas, who plays French horn, is a freshman general studies major from Tunkhannock, Pa.

Reckling, who plays clarinet, is a junior archaeology/culture of the ancient Near East and religion major from Brookline, Mass.

The instrumentalists will join students from 20 colleges and universities in Pennsylvania to perform a concert under the direction of Frank Wickes, who recently retired as director of bands from Louisiana State University.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department will host photographer Tulu Bayar's "Playground Series" in the College's art gallery in Snowden Library Jan. 19-Feb. 19. A free, public reception and artist talk will be held Jan. 19 from 4-5:30 p.m.

Bayar's exhibit explores the human fascination with recording instances of people and places in some of the world's most visited environments. The artist travelled to major tourist attractions across the globe to capture images of people taking pictures.

"My intention," says Bayar, "is to reveal how human interaction with the cameras, places and others while shooting in public places can become both a public and a private act."

Turkish-born Bayar earned a bachelor's in communication from the University of Ankara and moved to the U.S. in 1997, earning an M.F.A in photography from the University of Cincinnati.

Bayar has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at venues in the U.S. and Europe, and has received artist-in-residency grants and fellowship which include the William Sackett Fellowship from Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Camac Centre d'art artist-in-residency grant funded by Tenot Foundation in France, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock artist-in-residency grant funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation. Bayar is an associate professor of art and art history at Bucknell University.

Bayar's work, including selections from "Playground Series," can be viewed at www.tulubayar.com.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Development Office recently launched a new website for charitable gift planning. The interactive, online service allows constituents to independently explore various estate and legacy planning scenarios through user-friendly tools and calculators.

Examples include a "Will Planning Wizard," a "Gifts That Pay You Income" link that calculates rates and payouts for life-income gifts and a "Compare Gift Plans" page that provides users with a side-by-side comparison of all the various options.

"Our donor's support is of great value to us," says Karen Sheaffer, planned giving officer and Lycoming alumna. "We are pleased to expand our website to make it a resource for them to plan their charitable gifts to the College. A carefully planned gift can provide benefits to the donor, their loved ones and the College, and our new website tools help show them how to do that."

The website is available at www.lycoming.edu/PlannedGiving, and is just one new feature of the College's redesigned website that launched in the fall.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Jazz pianists Bruce Barth and Eri Yamamoto will perform a joint concert at Lycoming College on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The concert, sponsored by "Brilliant Corners," is free and open to the public.

Barth is a multi-faceted jazz musician whose career has included significant ensemble work and several highly regarded solo releases. Barth demonstrated his talent for the piano at a young age and began taking lessons when he was only 5 years old. He is a dedicated teacher with more than 10 years on the jazz faculty of Temple University, and has taught privately at some of the nation's premiere institutions for the study of popular music performance.

Yamamoto, born in Osaka, Japan, began playing classical piano at age 3 and started composing at age 8. Since moving to the United States in 1995 to attend New School University's prestigious jazz program, she has established herself as one of jazz music's most original and compelling pianists and composers. Yamamoto has toured in the U.S. and abroad as both a solo pianist and member of the Eri Yamamoto Trio.

"Brilliant Corners" is a jazz-related literary journal edited by Dr. Sascha Feinstein, professor of English at Lycoming. Feinstein is also the editor of "Ask Me Now: Conversations of Jazz & Literature," which compiles the first 10 years of interviews that first appeared in "Brilliant Corners."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Art Department is hosting "Triangulate," an installation art exhibit by recent graduate Janelle Whisenant in the lower level of the Fine Arts Building through Jan. 20.

Whisenant's piece is a compilation of work made possible through the funding the College's Alfred Kohler Studio Artist Award. The award is in memory of Kohler, a non-traditional student who spent 10 years in the College's art department pursuing his second love, studio art. He took every course the program offered, many of them more than once.

"'Triangulate' is a two- and three-dimensional installation that references the origination of form within the subatomic realm, the archeological discovery of new form, and the scientific analysis of form, questioning the artist's place within each process," said Whisenant. "The three-dimensional forms were created out of a process involving uncertainty – in much the same way that all matter has sub-atomically originated. I've utilized a stream-of-conscious method of construction involving a combination of wires, plasters and pigments to create a completely invented, complex form. I then buried some of the forms inside temporary receptacles, so that I may unearth them using a process relating to archeological discovery.  Upon removal, I was able to identify and classify the new forms according to my own method of analysis and organization within the given space."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lycoming College is co-sponsoring the third annual "Walk for Service," on Monday Jan. 16, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in association with the city of Williamsport and STEP's Community Connect AmeriCorps program.

The event starts at 9 a.m. with a pre-walk rally at the Campbell Street Community Center, 600 Campbell St. The rally will begin with an invocation by Richard Vaughn. Those in attendance will receive hot chocolate, coffee, juice and bagels, and the first 200 people will receive a free T-shirt.

The "Walk for Service" will begin at 10 a.m. with participants processing along Little League Boulevard to the Lycoming College Recreation Center.

Registration at the Recreation Center will begin at 10:30 a.m., at which time those in attendance will be able to view nonprofit displays and a video montage of King's speeches.

State Rep. Rick Mirabito will offer a welcome at 11 a.m. Winners of an essay contest will be announced and a performance by CAPPA will take place. The welcome will conclude with keynote speaker Rev. Jeff LeCrone, Lycoming's campus minister.

Beginning at noon, a free lunch will be provided to those in attendance. The event will concluded at 1 p.m. with a trivia contest and raffle.  

The "Walk for Service" takes place nearly 54 years after King delivered a speech titled "Facing the Challenge of a New Age" in the College's Clarke Chapel on April 23, 1958.

Individuals may participate in all four events or choose those that best fit their schedule.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Jerry Allen's family will be hosting an open house to celebrate his life on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 1-3 p.m. in the Mary Welch Theatre, located in the College's Academic Center off Mulberry St. Dress is casual for this time of friendship and remembrance.

Lycoming College is mourning the loss of one of its veteran faculty members. Jerry Allen, associate professor of theatre, died unexpectedly Jan. 17.

"We will all miss a great wit, chef, father, grandfather, teacher, director, actor, and costume and stage designer," said Lycoming President Dr. James Douthat. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family as we fondly remember Jerry and his many contributions to the College."

Allen, who joined Lycoming's faculty in 1984, spent his entire career in theatre and worked in virtually every area of theatre production: from onstage acting and directing to backstage production. But costume and stage design was what he enjoyed most. He created set designs for 125 different productions and costumes for more than 225 productions. In 2004, the College exhibited a retrospective of 35 years of his costume and scene designs.

"Jerry has touched the lives and hearts of hundreds of students, faculty and staff at Lycoming," said Dr. N.J. Stanley, associate professor and chair of the theatre department. "He was an incredibly talented artist, a great storyteller, and he had a wonderful wry sense of humor. He was always quick to laugh. He was loved by many."

Allen also had a special interest in children's theatre. In 1994, he founded the Emerald City Players, comprised of Lycoming theatre students, which brings children's theatre to area schools.

Allen enjoyed gardening and cooking and was the author of four cookbooks. He earned both a B.F.A. and M.F.A from Utah State University.

Among Allen's survivors are son, Bryn, a 1999 Lycoming graduate, daughter, Ashleigh, and five grandchildren.

What students are saying about Professor Allen:

"Jerry Allen was a wonderful man to be around. He was so funny and would toss out good-hearted insults like no one's business. He thought we were all scared of him, and we were, until we actually met him. Jerry could try to make us believe he was a brute, but he really was a teddy bear. Hence his nickname, Jer-Bear. He could make you smile just by saying hello. I always felt comfortable enough to go talk to him whenever I needed to. He touched so many people's lives. He taught us to sew, and he taught us to stick up for ourselves. The theatre just suffered a huge loss. Those hallways and that stage will never be the same."

Molly Collier, Theatre major

"Jer was someone you always expected to be around and know everything. He was like a father figure to a lot of us, giving guidance and butt-kicking whenever necessary."

Gabriela Gorka, Theatre major

"One of the first things he would always say to me when I walked into his office was 'What did you do?' The last thing he would say would be, 'Get out of my office.' I didn't realize what these two statements meant, until one day he told me. The reason he said this was because you cannot learn in an office. You have to learn outside of the office and he was there for me when I needed help through some very difficult times. He was a mentor, a leader and a friend to me. He taught me that in life you make mistakes and you learn from them and live a better life."

Anthony L. Pilla, Music major

"One of Jerry's favorite movies was 'Auntie Mame,' in which the title character famously says: 'Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!' That was also Jerry's philosophy, and in the few years I knew and loved him, I never knew him to starve. He lived heartily, worked heartily, loved heartily and never minced words. He told it like it was, even if it hurt or upset you, because in the end, what he said ultimately helped you become a better actor, director or person. His honesty, sense of humor, and the passion and love for his work and co-workers are what I will definitely take with me when I graduate this May. I'll also take with me the love for classic films that he shared with me and my classmates in the first class I ever had with him. Without him, I'd never know who Cary Grant even was. 

"It's hard to believe that just yesterday he was advising me on my senior project. But it isn't hard to believe that he was one of the most influential people I'll ever know, and to spend the rest of my semester in mourning would be a huge insult to him. So instead, I'll be happy to have had him for a teacher, and to always have him for a friend."

Jesse Shade, Theatre major

Lycoming College announces its spring class of student teachers. The following students have begun their professional semester through the College's education program:

Katie Baldwin with Jersey Shore Area School District

Corie Beeler at Round Hills Elementary

Tyler Breech at Williamsport Area High School

Ariel Burton at Curtin Middle School and Cochran Elementary School

Erica Figard at Hepburn Lycoming Elementary School

Renee Herrick at Jackson Elementary School

Alyssa Jones at Cochran Elementary School

Kayla Leininger with Jersey Shore Area School District

Taylor Loedding at Jersey Shore High School

Melynda McGinnis at Hepburn Lycoming Elementary School

Timothy Okken at Curtin Middle School and Williamsport Area High School

Lucas Showers at Jersey Shore Middle School

First offered in 1955, the education program remains one of Lycoming's most popular courses of study. Unlike most of the state system universities which offer education as a major, Lycoming provides its future teachers the breadth and depth of a strong liberal arts education. Students choose an academic major and, with the help of their advisors, follow a carefully planned sequence of professional education courses, enriched by extensive field experiences in nearby schools.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate educations of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nations.

Lycoming College celebrates the announcement of a $1 million grant from the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation of Harrisburg, Pa.

One of the largest gifts the College has received dedicated solely for scholarship support, the grant will establish the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Endowed Scholarship Fund. The fund will support students from central and eastern Pennsylvania who exhibit financial need and academic promise. The grant is particularly significant in that it will benefit multiple students each year, in perpetuity.

"This is an exceptional gift at a time of exceptional need," said Dr. James Douthat, president of the College. "As we celebrate our bicentennial year and continue to offer students a distinguished liberal arts and sciences education, we are deeply grateful for the confidence the Stabler Foundation has placed in our mission, commitment and capability."

With the need for financial support among Lycoming students increasing by more than 10 percent in the last year alone, the College has allocated more than $22 million, approximately half of its annual budget, to assist those who would not otherwise be able to enroll at the College. More than 98 percent of Lycoming students receive financial aid.

"Lycoming College and the Stabler Foundation both believe in managing resources to make the greatest benefits and resources available to students," said Chip Edmonds, vice president for college advancement. "From our beginnings 200 years ago, Lycoming has been dedicated to creating educational opportunities for students from all backgrounds. We are excited about the ways this gift from the Stabler Foundation will allow us to further those efforts."

The two organizations also share a commitment to cultivating a culture of philanthropy.  In accordance with the vision of the Stablers, recipients of the Stabler scholarship will sign a letter of intent acknowledging a "debt of conscience" – a moral obligation to support the students who will come after them by making financial contributions to their alma mater in years to come.

The Stabler Foundation was established in 1966 exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes.Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College associate professors of mathematical sciences Eileen Peluso and Gene Sprechini's paper titled "The Impact of Alice on the Attitudes of High School Students Toward Computing" was published in the winter issue of The Journal for Computing Teachers. The journal is a production of the Special Interest Group for Computing Teachers of the International Society for Technology in Education.

Sprechini joined the mathematical sciences department in 1981. His specialty is probability and statistics, specifically general linear models and robustness of statistical tests. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and is the coordinator of the actuarial mathematics program.

Peluso has been a member of the mathematical sciences department since 1998. Her background in software engineering and programming continue to influence her interests. Peluso's Ph.D. research focused on formal language and automata theory and its application to process modeling, and she continues to review papers in that sub-discipline of computer science. Her scholarship focuses on K-12 computer science education and its relationship to gender issues in the discipline.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College alumna V. Chapman-Smith will speak at Lycoming's seventh annual Black History Month Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 4, in the College's Wertz Student Center. The event is sponsored by the Black Student Union, Black History Month Committee and the Office of Alumni Relations.

The event begins at 6 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres followed by dinner in the Jane Schultz Room. Cost is $20 per person and reservations may be made by contacting the Office of Alumni Relations at 570-321-4376.

Chapman-Smith, who graduated with honors from Lycoming in 1972, is the regional strategic liaison in the Office of the Chief Operations Officer at the National Archives at Philadelphia. She came to the National Archives in 2002 as the regional administrator for Mid-Atlantic Operations, serving the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia. In this role, she created innovative partnerships across multiple sectors: federal, cultural, historical, education, and business communities. The Mid-Atlantic Region has been the recipient of eight Archivist Awards, the highest honor given internally by the United States Archivist. Chapman-Smith personally was recognized for her outstanding work in promoting civil understanding in a diverse society.

Prior to her tenure at the National Archives, Chapman-Smith worked 11 years in the private sector as corporate records officer of a large Philadelphia-based financial institution, and then led two of the largest records and archival programs in the U.S. at the state and local levels.

Chapman-Smith has received several leadership awards for her work, including the prestigious Public Service Award from Nelson Rockefeller College, the New York State Governor's Award for Outstanding State Leadership and the city of Philadelphia's Distinguished Service Award for her four-year service as City Records Commissioner. In 2008, The History Channel awarded Chapman-Smith its Outstanding History Educator. In 2009, the Lycoming College Alumni Association recognized her with an Outstanding Achievement award.

Chapman-Smith serves as chair of the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board, which includes more than 170 federal entities and a 45,000 member workforce. She is also an occasional invited speaker and requested participant for national and international professional conferences and cultural/education planning initiatives.

A German major at Lycoming, Chapman-Smith spent a full-year in Goettingen, Germany, through the College's exchange program. She continued her education in the history doctoral program at Temple University.

She and her husband, Robert, a 1973 Lycoming graduate, reside in Overbrook Farms, a national historic district in Philadelphia. They have two adult children.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate educations of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College admissions office will host an open house on Saturday, Feb. 18, for prospective students and their families. Registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. and the open house will begin at 10 a.m.

In addition, a special Art & Digital Communication Preview for students interested in careers in art, design, photography, electronic art, art education and digital media will be held concurrently. Faculty members will be available to review student portfolios for scholarship consideration. Art students should bring 10-15 pieces of their work in addition to their sketchbook; digital communication students should bring videos and/or digital presentations.

Open houses are comprised of several information sessions, tours of the campus and lunch with faculty, coaches and admissions representatives who provide a relaxed setting in which to answer questions about the college search process and what Lycoming has to offer.

Information sessions cover topics such as college costs, freshman year expectations, extracurricular activities and managing an academic career while participating in athletics. Current students will also be available to reflect on how their college search led them to Lycoming.

For more information and to register, visit www.lycoming.edu/admissions or call 1-800-345-3920, ex. 4026.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College historian Dr. John F. Piper Jr., author of the recently released "Lycoming College, 1812-2012: On the Frontiers of American Education," will hold a book signing on Tuesday, Feb. 7, from 10:45 a.m. to noon in Pennington Lounge, located on the first floor of the Academic Center. Written and printed in conjunction with Lycoming's ongoing bicentennial celebration themed "Into Our Third Century," the book will be available for purchase at the signing and through the College's campus store. It was published by Bucknell University Press.

Piper's more than 40-year association with the College began in 1969, when he became a professor of history. He later chaired the department on several occasions from 1974-92 and served as dean of the College from 1992 until his retirement in 2007. Since then, he has served as Lycoming's historian while working on his book.

The hardcover book is a detailed story about Lycoming College, a national liberal arts and sciences institution in Williamsport, Pa. The College is one of the 50 oldest institutions of higher education in the nation and the oldest that retains a relationship with the United Methodist Church. It has the distinction of having evolved through four different stages of American education and has reached a fifth.

The institution received its charter from the state of Pennsylvania on April 2, 1811, and opened as the Williamsport Academy in 1812. In 1848, a group of Methodists bought the academy and transformed it into Dickinson Seminary, later renamed Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, which, despite its name, was a preparatory school, not a school of theology. In 1929, the leaders of the seminary added a junior college to their school. Junior colleges were a new frontier of American education in the early 20th century, and Dickinson Junior College became the first fully accredited private junior college in the state. After World War II, the junior college became a four-year institution and chose the name Lycoming College. In 2000, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching included Lycoming in its list of 213 national liberal arts colleges.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

The Lycoming College Music Department will present a Concert at Noon featuring the Lycoming Jazz Quartet on Thursday, Feb. 9, in Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

The ensemble of regional jazz professionals led by Lycoming faculty members Dick Adams, saxophonist, and Tim Breon, bassist, will perform standards from the big band, bop and modern eras of jazz.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Tour Choir announces the schedule for its 2012 season. The choir will hold concerts in central and eastern Pennsylvania before traveling to California for a seven-concert tour in March.

A homecoming concert is scheduled for Wednesday, March 21, at 8 p.m. in the College's Clarke Chapel. The tour choir's full schedule is available at www.lycoming.edu/choir.

Conducted by Dr. Fred Thayer, the choir has been widely acclaimed as one of the finest college musical groups in the East, with repertoire consisting of both religious and secular music that ranges from contemporary to traditional.

Since its inception in 1947 by Walter McIver, the Choir has presented concerts in every state east of the Mississippi River, as well as California, Texas, Louisiana, Canada, Puerto Rico, Argentina and Europe. Foreign tours occur approximately every three years.

The tour choir is selected each year by competitive audition from the 105-voice College Choir, which is comprised of students from all academic fields. Forty students are chosen annually to perform in two weekend tours and a 10-day spring break tour.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Anne Landon, assistant director of Lycoming College's Institute for Management Studies (IMS) and internship coordinator, has earned the Academy Certified Resume Writer (ACRW) designation, a high-level certification that signifies mastery of best-in-class resume strategies. Landon joins an elite group of 70 ACRWs nationwide.

Earning the ACRW indicates that a resume writer has successfully completed an intensive and comprehensive training program that teaches skills and concepts through classroom study, training assignments, independent learning projects and intense individualized feedback. The program is recognized for its rigor, high standards and accomplished graduates.

Landon will have a resume sample and analysis published in the 2012 edition of Your Career: How to Make It Happen, one of the most widely used career textbooks. One of her sample resumes will also be included in the third edition of Same-Day Resume.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College Theatre Department will welcome home two alumni guest artists for a production of "Bash: Three Plays" Feb. 8-11 at 8 p.m. in the College's Mary L. Welch Theatre.

Lycoming's production of the play by Neil LaBute is directed by Bridget Leak, a 2005 graduate of the College, and features actors Dustin Crouse, a 2004 graduate, and Dana Leigh Snyder. The production crew is comprised entirely of Lycoming students with set and lighting design by technical director and faculty member Claude Hardy.

"Bash," which opened in New York City this January, is a collection of one-act plays exploring the nature of evil as it invades the everyday lives of seemingly ordinary people. Crimes are committed, but playwright LaBute doesn't condemn or redeem his characters; he leaves the judging to the audience.

Leak earned a bachelor's degree in German and French and minors in theatre and communications. After teaching in France for a year and completing an apprenticeship at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., she earned a Master of Fine Arts in directing from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University. Leak has directed more than 30 productions overseas and in the U.S.

Crouse, a native of Williamsport, earned a bachelor's in art history and marketing, and studied at the Actors Studio in New York City. He completed his training with William H. Macy and David Mamet's Atlantic Theater Company. This past summer, Crouse finished production on the independent film "Shades of Yellow" and the Columbia University film "You Can Never Go Home." He worked with Ellen Burstyn and Sam Rockwell on a reading of David Bar Katz's "The Atmosphere of Memory" and is a member of Kevin Spacey's Old Vic New Voices – a select group of promising young theatre professionals. 

Snyder is a New York-based actress with a background in dance and experimental theatre. She has performed throughout New York City and California, including Off-Broadway productions of both original and published plays. She lives in New York City and has performed more than 60 roles nationwide.

Tickets for "Bash" can be purchased at the Mary L. Welch Theatre box office, or by calling 570-321-4048. The box office is open weekdays from 1-4 p.m. and beginning at 6:30 p.m. on the evenings of the performances. This production contains adult language and situations, and is recommended for mature audiences only.

A talkback with the actors and director will take place immediately following the Feb. 10 and 11 performances, and an alumni reception will be held after the talkback on Feb. 11. The reception is dedicated to the memory of theatre professor Jerry D. Allen, who died unexpectedly on Jan. 17.

A free public discussion, "What's Next?," with the company on creating a professional career in the theatre will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 4:30 p.m. in the College's Dragon's Lair Theatre, Academic Center.

"Dinner and a Show" is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 10. Tickets are $18 per person and must be reserved in advance. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu/theatre.

Read an interview with Crouse and Leak here.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Volunteers from the Lycoming College chapter of Habitat for Humanity continued to assist local families with flood relief on Saturday, Nov. 19, in Montoursville, Pa.

The team from Lycoming, consisting of 15 students and one advisor, worked at a house in which water had risen to chest level on the first floor. The service opportunity was provided through Volunteers in Mission, a Christian organization focused on helping others rebuild after natural disasters.

"While we were there, we worked on fixing the drywall that was ruined due to the amount of water that was in the house," said senior Damian Priznar. "It was very rewarding knowing that we were helping others, even if some of us had little construction experience. I think that we did a great job helping others who truly needed it, and we came together as a group to accomplish a difficult task."

The Lycoming College chapter of Habitat for Humanity has plans to travel to Louisiana during the College's spring break as part of the organization's Collegiate Challenge program. In prior years, the group has traveled to North Carolina, New Mexico and Washington.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Lycoming College theatre and criminal justice departments recently hosted two events at the Lycoming County prison as part of Snowden Library's semester-long "Discover Louisa May Alcott's World" programming.

On Nov. 29, a documentary screening and book discussion, led by the Lycoming College Criminal Justice Society, was held for the female inmates of the Lycoming County Prison.

"The programming through 'Discover Louisa May Alcott's World' has provided an opportunity for Lycoming College and the Williamsport community to come together," says Dr. Kerry Richmond, assistant professor of criminal justice. "It is also a great opportunity to begin to coordinate programming with the Lycoming County Prison. Our hope is that the documentary screening and book discussion group on Louisa May Alcott will be the first of many similar programs during which Lycoming students and the inmates can come together and learn from one another."

"Everything and Anything Alcott" was presented to inmates on Dec. 8 by eight students and one faculty member from the Lycoming chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, the national honorary dramatic fraternity.

"The students and I were very excited about the opportunity to share this literature with the inmates at the Lycoming County Prison," says Dr. N.J. Stanley, associate professor and chair of the College's theatre department. "So many people in town have been introduced to Alcott and her broad range of works through these programs, and we are happy for the chance to expand that audience."

The Louisa May Alcott programs are sponsored by the American Library Association Public Programs Office with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The 2011 winter edition of "Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature" has been released. Dr. Sascha Feinstein, the journal's founding editor, is a professor of English at Lycoming College. Feinstein is also the editor of "Ask Me Now: Conversations of Jazz & Literature," which compiles the first 10 years of interviews that first appeared in "Brilliant Corners."

The latest issue contains an interview with editor, poet and essayist Robert Pinsky, former U.S. Poet Laureate. Pinsky's recent poetry collections include "Selected Poems," "Gulf Music," and "Jersey Rain." His translation, "The Inferno of Dante," received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Academy of American Poets' Translation Award. Pinsky is the poetry editor of Slate magazine and teaches in the graduate program at Boston University.

In addition, the winter issue features poems by J.J. Penna, musician and poet; Al Maginnes, winner of the 2008 White Pine Poetry Prize; Richard Jackson, author of nine books, two critical books and several chapbooks of translations from Italian; Ed Pavlic, winner of the Darwin Turner Award from African American Review, The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and the Author of the Year Award from the Georgia Writers Association; and John McKernan, editor of ABZ Press.

"Brilliant Corners" also contains fiction from Wesley Brown, author of three novels, three produced plays and two multicultural anthologies, and Jim Austin, a taxi driver in St. Petersburg, Fla. The issue presents an essay by saxophonist Marc Mommaas. In the essay, Mommaas discusses the cover art, "Ben Webster," by his father, Henk Mommaas.

"Brilliant Corners" is published biannually and features jazz-related poetry, fiction and nonfiction. A subscription costs $12 a year ($18 for international orders). Send check or money to Brilliant Corners, Lycoming College, 700 College Place, Williamsport, PA 17701. More information can be found at www.lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners.

Published at Lycoming College, "Brilliant Corners" is funded in part by Lycoming College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and private endowments.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation. For more information, visit www.lycoming.edu.

Lycoming College is located in one of the nation's safest cities. CQ Press, an independent publishing company that releases a yearly report on city crime rankings, listed Williamsport as the 21^st safest metropolitan area in the nation out of 354 metropolitan areas.

The city fared better than other Pennsylvania metropolitan areas including Johnstown, Lebanon, Lancaster, York and Scranton-Wilkes-Barre. In Pennsylvania, only State College ranked higher on the list.

The statistics compiled by the company are based on the number of crimes, including homicides, sexual assault, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts, reported to the FBI in 2008. View the full report and methodology.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College's 36^th annual Candlelight Service will be broadcast Dec. 24 and 25 on several local radio stations. The traditional service of lessons and carols was performed by the College's choirs and instrumental ensembles on Dec. 11 in Clarke Chapel. The broadcast dates and times are as follows:

Saturday, Dec. 24, 11:00 a.m.-noon, WRAK (1200 AM, 1400 AM and 94.9 FM)

Sunday, Dec. 25, 7-8 a.m., WILQ 105.1 FM, WZXR 99.3 FM and OldieZ 93 93.3 FM

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College donated a record 730 items to the Lycoming County Toys for Tots campaign. For the 12th consecutive year, the College's Office of Admissions and Financial Aid coordinated the event with the support of faculty, staff and students.

When the office began collecting donations in 1999, they received a total of 33 toys. This year, the campaign brought in 100 more items than any previous year.

All of the toys from the College have been sent to the local Salvation Army, which will distribute them to more than 1,000 less fortunate children in the Williamsport area.

Now in its 64^th year, Toys for Tots is a program of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and collects new, unwrapped toys in October, November and December each year, according to the Toys for Tots website. The gifts are then distributed as holiday gifts to less fortunate children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

The Washington Monthly recently underscored Lycoming College's high graduation rate by ranking it fourth out of 249 national liberal arts colleges in a study to determine which colleges most increase the likelihood of the graduation of its entering students.

The study also ranked the 249 colleges on three broad criteria: Support of social mobility as shown by the admission and high graduation rates of students regardless of family income, commitment to community service and contributions to research, including both "cutting edge" scholarly activity and the percentage of students who go on to earn the Ph.D. On those three criteria, Lycoming ranked 112^th nationally.

Other institutions whose ranks clustered around Lycoming include Drew University (N.J.), Ohio Wesleyan University, Scripps College (Calif.) and Sewanee, The University of the South (Tenn). Lycoming is also recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News & World Report in its 2012 edition of "America's Best Colleges."

Founded in 1812 and celebrating its bicentennial during the 2011-12 academic year, Lycoming College is a national liberal arts and sciences school dedicated to the undergraduate education of 1,400 students. It offers 35 academic majors and is recognized as a Tier 1 institution by U.S. News and World Report. Located near the banks of the Susquehanna River in Williamsport, Pa., Lycoming is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the nation.

Lycoming College business students invite area Cub Scouts to join them for "Sunday Funday Field Day" on Sunday, Nov. 13, from 1-5 p.m., at the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum in South Williamsport, Pa.