News Archive
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September 20, 2019During Homecoming, the wrestling room will be dedicated in memory of the late Bill Racich, while the newly resurfaced Snell Field will be dedicated in the late Adele Boyd’s honor. -
September 9, 2019Ursinus College has again been recognized as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, coming in 82nd on the annual list. It was also named a top innovative college.
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September 6, 2019Research Experiences for Undergraduates, funded by the National Science Foundation, aim to involve underrepresented students in ongoing research in meaningful ways. This latest Ursinus REU program will focus on mathematics and computer science.
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September 4, 2019The “misfolded proteins,” cause neurodegenerative diseases in humans and many other animals. With new National Institutes of Health funding, Dale Cameron will continue his investigation into what triggers prion formation.
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August 30, 2019Ursinus students, faculty, staff and members of the neighboring community packed Musser Auditorium in Pfahler Hall during the first week of classes of the fall 2019 semester to chat with Madeleine Dean, a Democratic representative of Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district, about environmental issues facing our country and region.
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August 23, 2019On a rainy Friday morning, first-year students, one day after moving into their residence halls, gathered in Bomberger Hall—as is Ursinus tradition—for one of their first official acts together as a class.
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August 6, 2019A leading tutoring, test prep and college admission services company, The Princeton Review has included Ursinus among its top 385 colleges in the country while also naming it one of the best institutions in the northeast and among its top green colleges. -
August 1, 2019Students from Upper Perkiomen High School spent two weeks on the Ursinus College campus this summer taking an in-depth look at the U.S. constitution and other historical documents while becoming acquainted with a liberal arts education.
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July 26, 2019Mark Ellison, David Laucks Hain Professor of Chemistry, received a $200,217 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the motion of ions and molecules through carbon nanotubes. As part of the research, Ellison also joins the Center for Enhanced Nanofluidic Transport (CENT) at MIT. -
July 26, 2019The American Physiological Society chose Vikki Rueda-Juarez ’21 as one of 18 STRIDE (Short-Term Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health-Related Research) undergraduate research fellows this year for her work this summer in Beth Bailey’s lab.