More than 130 sixth-grade students from the Loyalsock School District learned about the water cycle from watershed to faucet during a field trip to the Waterdale Environmental Education Center on May 2-3. The event was organized by Waterdale partners, including Walt Nicholson, center director, Williamsport Municipal Water Authority (WMWA), Lycoming College’s education department and Clean Water Initiative (CWI) and Lycoming County Conservation District.
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Lycoming College students, faculty and staff recently wrapped up their RecycleMania campaign, which ran from Jan. 31-March 28. This marks the fifth year that the College has taken steps to increase awareness of recycling opportunities by participating in the friendly competition.
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The eastern hellbender is one step closer to becoming Pennsylvania’s first ever official state amphibian with the passing of Senate Bill 658, a collaborated effort of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Pennsylvania Student Leadership Council and Lycoming College’s Clean Water Institute (CWI). The bill advocates for the hellbender to be appointed the state amphibian due to its natural ability to indicate water quality — a characteristic that they believe would make the hellbender a mascot for clean water and an ideal representation of the state. Though many Pennsylvania natives might be learning about the animal for the first time as a result of the bill, members of the Lycoming College community are no strangers to the hellbender, since the College’s biology department and CWI have been studying the creature for years.
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Lillie Langlois, Ph.D., visited the Lycoming College campus on Oct. 12 to present her work, “Effects of Marcellus shale gas development on habitat fragmentation of Pennsylvania forests,” which examined the rapid expansion of shale gas development within the northern Appalachians. The College’s close proximity to the region in question was of particular interest to many Lycoming students who can see the effects firsthand.
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Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, this summer presented research at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on a 365 million-year-old leg bone that he and his students discovered in Lycoming County. The fossil is that of a femur that once belonged to a species of early tetrapod — a four-limbed animal — and dates back to the Late Devonian Period, when vertebrates made the transition from fish-like to more land-living types of animals.
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Dr. Brian Schwartz, M.D., M.S., will provide the fourth and final presentation of Lycoming College’s Lyme Symposium. Schwartz’s speech, “Lyme Disease: Epidemiologic & Clinical Overview; and Our Research,” will take place on Monday, Nov. 6 at 5:30 p.m. in Heim, Room G-11, on the Lycoming College Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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Drs. Harold Smith, M.D., and Francis Powers, M.D., will visit the Lycoming College Campus to discuss integrative medical treatment for Lyme disease. This discussion, part of Lycoming College’s Lyme Symposium, will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. in Heim, Room G-11. The event is free and open to the public.
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Dr. Steven Winton, VMD, will address the Lycoming College and Williamsport communities on how to keep pets safe from Lyme disease during his talk, “Lyme Disease in Pets.” The presentation, part of Lycoming College’s Lyme Symposium, will be held on Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. in Heim, Room G-11, on the Lycoming College campus. The event is free and open to the public.
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As Lycoming College launches this fall’s Lyme Symposium to help residents stay healthy while the area continues to see a rise in the local tick population, it announces a talk by “The TickGuy,” Thomas Mather, Ph.D., who will present “Ten things everyone needs to know about ticks these days,” and “Five TickSmartTM actions.” The presentation, scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in Heim G-11 on the Lycoming College campus, is free and open to the public.
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