FEATURES

Chase Portaro (chportaro@ursinus.edu) This past Wednesday, over 70 Ursinus community members crowded together in The Schellhase Commons to listen to award winning poet and scholar, Dr. Len Lawson. At the standing-room-only event, Lawson read selections from his three published works: Negro Asylum for the Lunatic Insane (2023, forthcoming), Chime (2019)...

Allia Proctor (alproctor@ursinus.edu) Dr. Rebecca Lyczak is a well-known face in the Ursinus community and beyond. She is a professor of biology, and is conducting groundbreaking research at Ursinus. She is working with model organism C. Elegans to determine the function of the PAM-1 gene. The main objective of her...

Kate Horan (kahoran@ursinus.edu) Many people find themselves struggling with obstacles in their lives, and want to change their lives for the better. Sometimes people have this desire but do not know where to start. Seeking help can be difficult, however, there is an easily available resource on campus that facilitates...

Tatiana Kent (takent@ursins.edu) Sophomore and rapper Derek Spangler ‘25, better known as D-BONE, is an Ursinus campus celebrity. Even if you’ve never met him, you’ve probably heard his song “Reimert” blasting through the speakers at a late night party. So who is the man behind the music? I sat down...

Gianna McCarthy (gimccarthy@ursinus.edu) Assistant Professor Jay Shelat joined the Ursinus College staff just this Fall semester and is the latest addition to the school's English Department. Shelat shares that he “loved how warm and welcoming everyone has been at Ursinus. The support tells me that one of the College's foundational...

Isabella Villegas (isvillegas@ursinus.edu) After both former President Brock Blomberg’s and President Jill Marsteller’s departures, Ursinus was on the hunt for the next person to lead the school. President Robyn Hannigan vividly remembers the moment when she was in her kitchen and received the call, “hoping that it was going to...

Sean McGinley (semcginley@ursinus.edu) The Berman Museum of Art is excited to announce several new artistic exhibitions and events planned for this fall semester at Ursinus, all open and encouraged to the Ursinus community. Sanya Grace Kunicki, Communications Assistant for the Berman Museum, provided insight on the events to come.  The...

Marie Sykes (masykes@ursinus.edu)   The Berman Museum of Art is once again open for the semester with two new exhibits for the autumn semester: Theatrum Equorum by Andrea Modica and Christo & Jeanne-Claude: The Tom Golden Collection by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Modica’s work features a collection of photography taken mainly in...

Layla M. Halterman (lahalterman@ursinus.edu) On a beautiful morning in May, I was fortunate enough to be invited to iHeart Radio, at 32 Avenues of America – an art deco building that stands tall and proud with a robust history - in the heart of lower Manhattan, to visit Jim Kerr...