The George I. Alden Trust granted Lycoming College $150,000 for updated instrumentation in the Detwiler Planetarium including a new projection system, software, and increased computing power. This is the sixth grant awarded to Lycoming by the Alden Trust since 2005, bringing a total of $710,000 in support.
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The Lycoming College Alumni Association Executive Board (AAEB) honored four remarkable individuals on Saturday, June 1, 2024, during the College’s Alumni & Reunion Weekend. Award recipients are selected by the AAEB through nominations received from alumni and other members of the College community. AAEB President Phil Levesque ’00 and Vice President Holly Andrews ’10 formally recognized the honorees at the All-Alumni Breakfast and Award Presentation held in Lamade Gymnasium.
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Lycoming College is pleased to announce it has received an $8,850 grant from the PPL Foundation. These funds will support the expansion and enhancement of a complementary pair of the College’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs successfully piloted in 2022-23 — Partnership Welcome Week and OpenWilliamsport.
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Lycoming College rallied its community to “Give like a Warrior!” during its sixth annual Days of Giving held April 9-10, 2024. The record-breaking 48-hour fundraising event resulted in 1,573 donors and $623,099 in gifts to support the people and programs that make its campus so distinctive.
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AT&T’s continued support totals $265,000 for college preparation summer program
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The Lycoming College Alumni Association Executive Board (AAEB) honored four remarkable individuals during the College’s Alumni & Reunion Weekend festivities on Saturday, June 3, 2023. Award recipients were selected by the AAEB board through nominations received from alumni and other members of the College community. AAEB members Brenda Bowser Soder ’98 and Andy Bucke ’71 presented the awards during the All-Alumni Rally & Breakfast held in Lamade Gymnasium.
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The Lycoming College community demonstrated its Warrior pride during its fifth annual Days of Giving on April 18-19, 2023. The 48-hour event achieved new all-time highs in both alumni participation and dollars raised, resulting in 1,439* donors and $485,320* in gifts to support the people and programs that make its campus so distinctive.
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The Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation has once again awarded Lycoming College with a grant in support of scholarships, furthering the College’s commitment to student access and persistence. This contribution marks Stabler’s 11th year of donating to the College, with the Foundation gifting a total of $5,080,000.
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Lycoming College received a generous contribution of $10,000 from PPL to support high school-level educational programming at the Waterdale Environmental Center (WEEC), a joint effort between Lycoming College’s Clean Water Institute (CWI) and the Williamsport Municipal Water Authority (WMWA). The gift has been made through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC), of which the WEEC is a qualifying program. The EITC program offers businesses a credit to lower their tax liability through donations to educational enrichment initiatives such as the WEEC.
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Lycoming College has been awarded $150,000 over two years from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the College’s Center for Humanities Research, which opened in January 2022 to support undergraduate humanities research and experiential learning opportunities. The HRC identified expanded digital humanities capacity as an immediate priority to strengthen humanities education for enrolled students and to attract more humanities-oriented students to the College.
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Surrounded by students, alumni, faculty, and staff, Lycoming College dedicated the Doug and Dawn Keiper Stadium and UPMC Field on Saturday, Oct. 1, during Homecoming Weekend. Part of Lycoming’s Shangraw Athletic Complex, the recently completed stadium and field directly impact the College’s ability to nationally recruit and retain the highest caliber student-athletes.
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Amidst an array of musical performances and a celebratory spirit, Lycoming College dedicated the Trachte Music Center on Friday, Oct. 21, in the presence of 200 students, faculty, and staff, as well as numerous elected and city officials, trustees, alumni, community members and friends of the College. The dedication was an historic event as the building represents the first significant investment in the College’s music program in more than 100 years.
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" 'This magnificent facility will stand here and generations and generations of Lycoming College, students, faculty, alumni and members of the community will make music.' With those promising words, Kent C. Trachte, 15th and current Lycoming College president, humbly expressed his gratitude at the formal dedication ceremony Friday night of the new music center named in his honor on the campus of Lycoming College in Williamsport."
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"Music education and study has been a two-century-old tradition at Lycoming College. During the formal dedication of the Trachte Music Center on Friday, administrators and faculty reminisced on the history of music at the private liberal arts institution of higher learning and how the new facility is envisioned to meet or exceed expectations."
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