September 9, 2025
Lycoming College today announced the appointment of Suzanne O’Driscoll to the inaugural position of vice president for student affairs and success. Reporting directly to the president and serving on the administrative cabinet, O’Driscoll will begin her new position on Sept. 29.
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September 8, 2025
Lycoming College today announced the launch of a new academic program in biophysics, a highly interdisciplinary major gaining traction around the country yet rarely found at smaller institutions. Studies in biophysics will help Lycoming students understand how the principles of physics can be applied to biological systems, opening doors to careers in a wide array of fields including scientific research, healthcare, biomechanics, biomedical engineering, medical physics, kinesiology, and more.
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September 3, 2025
Visual artist Amanda Le Kline ’08 will exhibit her works in a show entitled, “Of Course My Flesh Reaches for the Earth,” at the Lycoming College Digital Media Gallery, located in the Communication Building on Franklin Street. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will begin with a reception on Wednesday, Sept. 17, from 4:30-6 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
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September 2, 2025
Lycoming College has announced a unique program to help aspiring physicians secure admission to medical school: Lyco White Coat pairs pre-med students with accomplished professionals in the medical field who can provide one-on-one mentorship to students, increasing their likelihood of securing medical school admission.
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September 1, 2025
Lycoming College will welcome the Montoursville Area High School Marching Warrior Band and cheerleaders to David Person Field at Girardi Stadium on Saturday, September 6 at 1:00 p.m. for a true “meeting of the Warriors.”
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August 27, 2025
Darren Francis of the DistruptED higher education podcast interviews President Chip Edmonds about the value of a degree and how colleges can foster a culture that breaks down silos and rallies entire communities around enrollment and student success. President Edmonds discusses collaboration, institutional leadership, and what it takes to thrive at this inflection point for higher education. Access the full podcast here.
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August 25, 2025
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 5 – Nov. 1
Opening Reception: Sept. 5, 5 p.m.
Location: Lycoming College Art Gallery, 25 W. Fourth St., Williamsport, Pa.
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August 18, 2025
The Lycoming College men's baseball team put in hours at the Little League concession stands. Click here to watch the full segment.
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August 18, 2025
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $148,000 grant to Lycoming College’s David Broussard, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, for work on a project entitled, “Silty streams and diluted seas in the Late Devonian Appalachian Basin: Probing the effects of early icehouse extremes on vertebrate paleogeobiology.” Through this work, Broussard hopes to advance our understanding of ancient climate change and its impacts on vertebrate animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
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July 30, 2025
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi awarded Sarah Lanphear ’25, a double major in ecology and creative writing with a minor in environmental science from Chittenango, N.Y., a fellowship with a value of $8,500 for her first year of graduate school. Lanphear, named a Slater Fellow by Phi Kappa Phi, completed her studies at Lycoming College in May and will pursue a graduate degree in environment and natural resources at The Ohio State University.
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July 16, 2025
Lycoming College is responding to market demands with the introduction of a new academic program in data science for Fall 2025. In response to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics metric stating that the employment of data scientists is projected to grow 36 percent from 2023 to 2033 — much faster than the average for all occupations — data science at Lycoming positions students to work as data scientists, data analysts, data engineers, business analysts, market researchers, and database administrators.
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July 8, 2025
Lycoming College associate professor of archaeology and anthropology Jessica Munson, Ph.D., recently worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to analyze house size distributions from more than 1000 sites around the world covering the last 10,000 years. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), one of the world’s most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals. Munson is co-lead author on the paper, “Assessing neighborhoods, wealth differentials, and perceived inequality in preindustrial societies,” and is a contributing author on six additional articles in this PNAS Special Feature.
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July 1, 2025
The Lycoming College Alumni Association Executive Board (AAEB) honored four remarkable individuals on Saturday, May 31, 2025, 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 Holly Andrews ’10 and Vice President Mike Ruddy ’05 formally recognized the honorees at the All-Alumni Breakfast and Award Presentation held in Pennington Lounge in the Academic Center.
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June 24, 2025
Every spring, the Kennedy Center opens its doors to a highly select group of talented theatre students from across the country for the KCACTF National Festival. This spring, Lycoming College’s Alexandra (AJ) Marusko ’25 earned one of those coveted invitations and walked away from the event with a fellowship at the prestigious O’Neill National Theater Institute and connections to last a lifetime.
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