Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Bucknell Engineering Team to Aid Gilson Snow in Water Sports Development
Awarded Grant from Gov. Wolf’s Manufacturing PA Initiative for Expansion
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf recently awarded a $70,000 grant through the Manufacturing PA initiative to Gilson Snow,…
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Thursday, July 18th, 2019
Bucknell’s Beiler Receives ASCE Transportation & Development Institute Outstanding Younger Member Award
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell University civil and environmental engineering professor Michelle Oswald Beiler is the recipient of the 2019 American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation & Development Institute (ASCE T&DI)…
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Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Tyler Candelora ’19 to Use Fulbright to Teach English, Study Coal Towns in Argentina
Bucknell Faculty Bill Flack, Clare Sammells also Receive Fulbright Awards
LEWISBURG, Pa. — To say recent Bucknell graduate Tyler Candelora ’19 has a personal connection to coal would be an…
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Bucknell Researchers Identify New Sexually Diverse Bush Tomato Species
Plant Discovery Challenges Notion of Binary Sexuality
LEWISBURG, Pa. — A new species of bush tomato discovered in remote Australia provides a compelling example of the fact that sexuality among…
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Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Billy Casper Golf Selected to Manage Bucknell Golf Club
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University announced a new partnership with Billy Casper Golf, a national leader in golf course management, to manage the University’s storied 89-year-old Bucknell Golf Club. Billy…
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
Bucknell to Host More Than 8,000 This Summer
Camps, Conferences and Athletics Events Will Bring Visitors to Campus
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University will host more than 40 summer events that will bring more than 8,000 visitors to…
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Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Bucknell Poll Finds Americans Optimistic About U.S.-China Trade War Outcome
Results Indicate the Public Skeptical About a Quick Resolution
LEWISBURG, Pa. — A new nationally representative survey from the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) shows that Americans are generally…
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Monday, May 13th, 2019
Bucknell Poll Finds Americans See Anti-Semitism Problem, Divided on What It Is
Results Find Generational Divide on Severity of Anti-Semitism as a Problem
LEWISBURG, Pa. — A recent nationally representative survey from the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) suggests that while…
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Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Bucknell, VIA Public Media Announce New Collaboration
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University will enter into a new collaboration with VIA Public Media and its award-winning public radio station and NPR affiliate, WVIA-FM — which serves northeastern Pennsylvania…
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Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Bucknell to Host Neuroscience Summit on Addiction
Four Leading Addiction Researchers to Join Bucknell’s Grisel at Campus Theatre
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The United States is grappling with one of its worst-ever drug crises. According to the Centers…
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Bucknell to Explore Ecology, Human Rights at Sustainability Symposium
Famed Climate Scientist, Columbia Professor Dr. James Hansen to Give Keynote
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Famed Columbia University climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, whose 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change helped…
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Bucknell Among Peace Corps’ 2019 Top Volunteer-Producing Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Peace Corps announced last week that Bucknell University ranked No. 6 among small schools on the agency’s list of top volunteer-producing colleges and universities in 2019. There…
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Monday, March 18th, 2019
Bucknell Freeman College of Management Receives AACSB Accreditation
Accreditation Is Endorsement of the College’s Excellence in Business Education
Bucknell University’s Freeman College of Management has received accreditation in business from AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business)…
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Monday, March 4th, 2019
U.S. Olympic Gymnast Aly Raisman to Speak at Bucknell’s Sojka Pavilion
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Aly Raisman — team captain of two gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s gymnastics teams and a 2018 recipient of ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of…
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Founder of the FBI’s National Art Crime Team to Present Bucknell’s Samek Distinguished Lecture
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Robert Wittman, founder of the FBI’s National Art Crime Team and best-selling author, will present “Art Crime in the 21st Century” at Bucknell University’s Samek Distinguished Lecture…
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Bucknell Poll Finds Trump Trouble for Republicans, Particularly with Young Voters
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The record-long government shutdown dropped President Trump’s approval rating to its lowest level in more than a year at 34 percent according to the latest survey by…
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Monday, January 28th, 2019
Bucknell’s Johnson-Cramer Named Bentley’s Dean of Business and the McCallum Graduate School
WALTHAM, Mass. — Michael Johnson-Cramer, the founding director and former interim dean of the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University, has been named as the new Dean of Business…
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Bucknell Institute for Public Policy Polling Finds Both Parties Wary of Trump Twitter
Democrats, Independents and Some Republicans Say President’s Use of Twitter Has Negative Impact
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Donald Trump has used Twitter like no other U.S. President to let the world…
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019
Bucknell Martin Luther King Jr. Week to Examine ‘Facing Change’
Bucknell University’s 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Week will feature five prominent scholars who will recall Dr. King’s legacy while discussing the “Facing Change” theme during a week-long series of…
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Bucknell Researchers Studying Alaska’s Wrangell Volcanoes
Volcanoes Are Some of the World’s Largest but Have Been Scientific Engimas
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano captivated the world’s fascination this spring and summer when eruptions spewed lava,…
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Bucknell to Host 13th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University will host the 13th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium, “Science, Conservation, & Heritage,” on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27 in the Elaine Langone Center.…
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2018
Bucknell Professor Collaborates on Breakthrough Firefly Genome Project
New Paper Sheds Light on Firefly Bioluminescence
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Fireflies and their fascinating luminous courtships have been the subject of childhood wonder and inspired scientific curiosity for centuries. Now,…
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Friday, October 5th, 2018
Bucknell to Present ‘The ’60s at 50’ Symposium
Sociologist, Author Todd Gitlin to Kick Off Public Discussions Oct. 18
The year 1968 has become symbolic for the tumultuous period of conflict and change that marked American society during…
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Monday, September 24th, 2018
Bucknell Student Lectureship Series to Host Josh Peck Oct. 2
LEWISBURG, Pa. – The Bucknell University Student Lectureship Series will host former Nickelodeon teen star, actor, comedian and YouTube personality Josh Peck on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. in…
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Monday, September 24th, 2018
Bucknell Supports Largest Higher Education Sustainability Conference
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Bucknell University will serve as a host sponsor for the 2018 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference & Expo in Pittsburgh, Pa.…
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