Lycoming College News

Lycoming establishes biology field station for experiential learning and research

Lycoming College recently acquired 116 acres of land to establish the Lycoming Biology Field Station. The College’s biology department intends to use the field station for courses in aquatic biology, ecology, plant science, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, and environmental biology as well as student research and practica projects.

Lycoming College presents author and photographer Tim Palmer

Lycoming College’s Clean Water Institute (CWI) will host author and photographer Tim Palmer for a talk on his book, “Wild and Scenic River: An American Legacy,” on Sept. 11 at 7 p.m. in room G-11 of the Heim Building on the College campus.

Lycoming College has once again been recognized as a top national undergraduate institution by The Princeton Review, who selected Lycoming College for inclusion in its “Best 384 Colleges” 2019 edition. This is the second consecutive year that Lycoming has been named a “best college” by the college admissions resource.

Lycoming professor receives $10,000 grant to fund creative writing and digital storytelling workshops for veterans

Lynn Estomin, professor of digital art and design at Lycoming College, received a $10,000 Winning Victories Grant for her project proposal on behalf of Warrior Writers, an organization that uses art and poetry to help veterans heal from the trauma of war.

A Message from the President: A Compelling Vision for the Future, Inspired by the Past

On July 9, Lycoming College officially broke ground on the Krapf Gateway Center and initiated a multiphase project of historic significance. Executive Vice President Chip Edmonds ’98 opened the festivities, and speakers included Pennsylvania Secretary of Community and Economic Development Dennis Davin, Sen. Gene Yaw ’70 (R-23), Board Chair Stan Sloter ’80, and Mayor Gabriel Campana, Ed.D. As president, I had the honor of offering reflections and introducing our naming donors, Dale Krapf ’67 and Dallas Krapf ’13H.

Lycoming College is pleased to announce the appointments of endowed professorships to six faculty members. Made possible by established gifts to the College, endowed professorships are one of the highest honors that Lycoming awards faculty members to recognize a career marked by exceptional teaching, scholarship, and service.

Lycoming’s Clean Water Institute provides educational workshop, water testing aboard the Hiawatha

Lycoming College’s Clean Water Institute (CWI) took part in the Middle Susquehanna River Keeper’s floating classroom program aboard the Hiawatha Paddlewheel Riverboat in Williamsport on July 10. The CWI presented a workshop focused on water quality of the West Branch Susquehanna River and requested that community participants bring a water sample from their local stream or creek for testing.

Lycoming College receives $125,000 grant to support interdisciplinary biochemistry major

Lycoming College celebrates groundbreaking of new Krapf Gateway Center

Lycoming students intern with the Smithsonian Institution through new institutional partnership

As part of a newly-developed institutional partnership, three Lycoming students began their summers with an internship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Katie de Melo ’19 (Tiverton, R.I.), Jazmin Jones ’20 (Gloversville, N.Y.), and Xiyue Yang ’20 (Beijing) each lived in Washington, D.C., and interned in various Smithsonian offices and museums from May 14-June 8.

WNEP: Lycoming College’s Clean Water Institute

WBRE: Local Leaders Break Ground on Gateway Project

Sun-Gazette: College breaks ground for gateway building

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