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Lycoming College announces Dean's List for Spring 2018

Wed, 30 May 2018 17:18:21 -0400

The Lycoming College Dean's List is issued at the close of each semester in recognition of superior scholarship. The following high-performing students were recognized for academic excellence for the Spring of 2018.

Lycoming College celebrates its 170th commencement

Wed, 30 May 2018 17:15:44 -0400

Lycoming College marked its 170th commencement ceremony with hundreds of parents, family members and friends, while President Kent C. Trachte, Ph.D., and Phillip W. Sprunger, Ph.D., provost and dean of the college, awarded diplomas to new gradu...

Fall 2017 Dean's List

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:19:15 -0500

Lycoming's hellbender research advances Senate bill for first ever Pennsylvania state amphibian

Tue, 12 Dec 2017 14:58:36 -0500

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 L...

Best Shorts Award of Recognition

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 08:44:50 -0500

Lycoming College senior, Jason Graff, was recently honored by the Best Shorts Competition with an Award of Recognition: Documentary Short (Student) for his film "Ramona."

Lycoming College professor awarded $136,000 grant to research family with Klan connections

Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:26:09 -0400

Sarah Silkey, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Lycoming College, has secured a $136,000 grant to analyze a rare Reconstruction-era collection of correspondence from a family with ties to the Ku Klux Klan. With this award, Lycoming joins...

Lycoming College student-faculty research publiched in physics journal

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:53:51 -0400

Lycoming College physics majors Brianna Zawadzki '18 and Tom Osborne '18, and Christopher Kulp, Ph.D., professor of physics and chair of the department of astronomy and physics at Lycoming College, co-authored a paper published in prominent aca...

Lycoming College student completes WISE Intership

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:51:56 -0400

The summer of 2017, Montanna Crossman was matched with Judith Olinsky, a resident artist and gallerist in Williamsport, as well as the Vice President of Lycoming County's arts council, Lycoming Arts. The organization is non-profit, and thus vol...

Lycoming College student completes WISE Intership at UPMC Susquehanna

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:01:35 -0400

The Williamsport Internship Summer Experience (WISE) program provides students entering their sophomore, junior or senior year at the College with a resume building opportunity, workforce experience in a field of interest, assistance in choosi...

Lycoming College student completes WISE Internship at the Old Lycoming Township Police Department

Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:00:59 -0400

Through the WISE program the summer of 2017, Kyle Drick was able to intern at the Old Lycoming Township Police Department. During his internship, he was extremely fortunate to learn information on a wide variety of topics. Kyle learned basic th...

Lycoming College Student completes Wise Intership at Moff & Associates

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:08:58 -0400

The summer of 2017, Jaylen had the opportunity to participate in Lycoming College's Williamsport Internship Summer Experience (WISE) program. He was chosen to participate in an internship at Moff & Associates, a retirement investment firm i...

Lycoming College student completes Wise Internship at the Heart of Williamsport

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:03:14 -0400

The Heart of Williamsport is a nonprofit organization is designed to help revitalize the community of Williamsport in stages. Their current stage emphasizes community outreach using social media and local events to encourage members to share th...

Lycoming College completes Wise Internship at Career Service department at Pennsylvania College of Technology

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:02:47 -0400

As an intern in the Career Services department at Pennsylvania College of Technology, Erik Hombergers job was to assist with presentations and student meetings, as well as improving or creating documents that would better serve the office when ...

Lycoming College Student completes Wise Intership at L3 Electron Device

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:51:11 -0400

Lycoming College student, Brooke Swartz completed Wise Internship at Muncy State Correctional Institution

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:54:41 -0400

Bethany Hipple completed Wise Intership at Susquehanna Computer Innovations, Inc.

Thu, 05 Oct 2017 10:52:54 -0400

Lycoming College student participates in a research experience at Lehigh University

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:31:47 -0400

This summer Paige Rockwell participated in Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Lehigh University, doing research with Dr. Baltrusaitis in the Chemical Engineering Department on synthesizing and testing catalysts for turning simpler ...

Lycoming College student participated in an internship at Croda, Inc.

Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:11:11 -0400

Adalea Brindel had a summer internship at Croda, Inc., in Mill Hall, Pa. Brindel worked in the quality department on projects including a cleaning validation for a system in the plant, and looking at elemental impurities in products for custome...

Lycoming College student participates in expedition to Idalion

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 17:00:10 -0400

The Lycoming College Expedition to Idalion under the direction of Dr. Pamela Gaber was in the field from June 19-August 4 this year. Lycoming students participating in the expedition gained hands-on experience in an large archaeological dig in ...

Lycoming College student participated in research project

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:52:55 -0400

Leann Seidel, a graduate of Millville High School from Jerseytown, Pa., is a senior at Lycoming College majoring in chemistry with a minor in Business. This summer she did chemistry research with Dr. Charles Mahler as part of the Department of ...

Lycoming College student completes research in the jungles of Guatemala

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:44:37 -0400

Kayla Everett spent the 2017 May Term living in a tent in the Guatemalan jungle, assisting Dr. Jessica Munson with documenting newly discovered ruins at the ancient Maya site of Altar de Sacrificios.

Two Lycoming College students complete research in the Dominican Republic

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:12:18 -0400

Two Lycoming College students completed research projects during a 10-day trip to the Dominican Republic. Students traveled to the village of El Naranjito, to perform water quality measurements as baseline comparisons for future research.

Lycoming College student completes internship at Williamsport Water Authority

Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:39:47 -0400

Lycoming College student Andrew Squires of Milford, Pa., recently completed a 10-week WISE (Williamsport Internship Summer Experience) Internship. Squires did both field and lab work, checking water quality and also looked at influent water and...

Lycoming College students Co Published physics paper titled "Using missing ordinal patterns to detect nonlinearity in time series data"

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:08:40 -0400

The paper presents a new method for analyzing data see if that system generating the data obeys a set of rules that are either simple (linear) or complicated (nonlinear). The ability to identify the types of rules obeyed by a system is very imp...

Lycoming College awards two students for researching synthetic organic chemistry

Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:59:51 -0400

Lycoming students synthesize new starting materials (chemical compounds) for a chemical reaction using a reagent system (combination of chemicals to effect a certain "job", namely reductive cyclization) invented by my research group (the reagen...