July 11th, 2018
Average Starting Salary for Bucknell’s Class of 2017 Sets Record
The Daily Item
The Bucknell University Class of 2017 broke the school’s record for highest mean starting salary. This story breaks down the numbers from …
The Daily Item
The Bucknell University Class of 2017 broke the school’s record for highest mean starting salary. This story breaks down the numbers from …
The Daily Item/CHNI News
This story discusses the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and the impact their deaths had on the political …
WPSU/WHYY
This story reports on a study by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy that counts Pennsylvania as one of the states where residents are …
BBC Science in Action
This podcast explores how biology professor and David Burpee Chair in Plant Genetics Chris Martine thought he was tweeting a nice …
Bridge
Judy Grisel, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bucknell, contributed to this story, which assesses the health benefits and risks involved with …
Healthline
This story explains how the Cherokee Nation plans to screen thousands for the hepatitis C virus. Judy Grisel, a professor of psychology and …
Medill News Service/USA Today
This story examines the rising tensions between China and the U.S. over the South China Sea. Zhiqun Zhu, …
Chicago Tribune
This story reports on an April survey from the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy that found that 64 percent of respondents thought men …
PhytoKeys
The botanical journal PhytoKeys celebrated its 100th issue with a story listing the five most famous species that were highlighted in the journal. Two …
The Daily Item
This story reports that the Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center Network honored Dennis Hummer, manager of StartUp Lewisburg and a Bucknell Small …
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Bucknell’s Tom Solomon, a physics professor; and Adam Piggott, a mathematics professor; wrote an op-ed in The Washington …
Food Management
Due to Bucknell’s sustainability/waste diversion push on campus, research monkeys and baboons can now enjoy bits of fresh produce that would have otherwise …
The Press of Atlantic City
In New Jersey, desperation for marijuana revenue might lead lawmakers to take hasty and unreasonable risks with public health. This …
University Business
This article discusses how mobile-friendly platforms and social media are fueling donations at higher education institutions. Tasha Williams, Bucknell’s senior assistant director of …
WPGM Radio
This radio segment discusses how Bucknell is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its animal behavior program. Psychology professors and animal behavior researchers …
Money
Over the past month, a slew of high-profile commencement speakers have dispensed valuable pieces of advice they gleaned from their own careers. This article …
The Washington Post
In this op-ed, physics and astronomy professor Tom Solomon and mathematics professor Adam Piggott discuss society’s unhealthy infatuation with grade point averages …
Susquehanna Life Magazine
The magazine’s Life Around The River Summer 2018 column has a brief piece about how Bucknell student researchers and Chris Martine, …
Press Enterprise
From athletic camps to academic classes, there are about 40 events planned this summer on the Bucknell campus. This story discusses what …
The Daily Item
Pennsylvania experts, including Zhiqun Zhu, professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell, agree in this story that there are …
The Globe and Mail
In this op-ed, Zhiqun Zhu, a Bucknell professor of political science and international relations, discusses what lies ahead …
USA Today
This story reports that Riley Roussell, the 7-year-old son of Bucknell women’s basketball coach Aaron Roussell, penned a letter to NBA Commissioner Adam …
Houston Chronicle
This story reports that several polls, including one by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy, show that perceptions of new immigrants in …
Moneyish
Financial analyst and best-selling author Jim Cramer P’18, host of CNBC’s Mad Money and co-host of Squawk on the Street, made this round-up …
The Daily Item
Danville native Kevin Mathes knew somewhere around his sophomore or junior year at Bucknell University that he wanted to someday be the …
The Washington Post
Judy Grisel, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bucknell where she is a practicing neuroscientist, assesses the current debate over …
Vox
President Donald Trump’s Thursday morning decision to cancel the summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came as a surprise to many — …
The Daily Item
This story pays tribute to Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth, who returned annually to Lewisburg to reminisce with his favorite Bucknell professor …
WNEP-TV
Pulitzer prize winning novelist Philip Roth died Tuesday night from congestive heart failure at the age of 85. This piece profiles how Roth is …
The Globe and Mail
In this op-ed, Zhiqun Zhu, professor of political science and international relations at Bucknell, assesses the historic meeting between …
The New York Times
This story pays tribute to Philip Roth, a 1954 Bucknell graduate who was the prolific, protean and often blackly comic novelist …
Politico
This column reports that the percentage of people who think new immigrants make positive economic and cultural contributions climbed under President Trump, according to …
WNEP-TV
In this segment, Beth Capaldi, associate professor of biology and animal behavior at Bucknell, examines reasons why bee colonies are suffering higher …
The Daily Item
Medical advice offered via a letter sent in 1812 to Thomas Jefferson from a friend in Italy has been discovered by a …
CNBC
This story reports that CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer delivered a commencement speech to students at Bucknell University urging the 2018 graduating class …
Yahoo! Finance
“College is not an on-ramp to the HOV success lane.” This story reports that’s how CNBC star and former hedge fund manager Jim …
WITF-FM
Immigration is a hot issue in the political landscape and a divisive topic in communities around the country. How do Americans feel about immigration …
Newsweek
Public perceptions of new immigrants in the U.S. have improved “across all measures” since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, according to …
Psychology Today
In his latest “The Mate Market” blog, Bucknell psychology professor T. Joel Wade discusses how eyes can play a major role in …
The Associated Press
In this story about the Cherokee Nation’s fight to eliminate hepatitis C, Bucknell psychology and neuroscience professor Judy Grisel discussed how a …
Entrepreneur
This piece provides inspirational words from 15 of America’s Top CEOs, including Les Moonves ’71, chairman, president and CEO of CBS Corp., taken from …
The Christian Science Monitor
Using mathematical formulas, Iranian mathematician and digital artist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh programs computers to draw looping geometric designs, as well as …
The News-Item
This story profiles the three-year relationship between Bucknell University and the anthracite coal region, which was celebrated at a community appreciation dinner sponsored …
WBRE-TV/PaHomepage
Nick Gilson, CEO of Gilson Snowboards and Ski Co., was recognized as the Eastern Pennsylvania Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small …
The Daily Item
This article highlights Gilson Snowboard and Ski Co. winning the U.S. Small Business Administration 2018 Eastern Pennsylvania Young Entrepreneur of the Year …
The Daily Item
The third biennial Bucknell Intercollegiate Film Festival received a record 90 student short film entries from Pennsylvania colleges and universities, with 16 …
WVIA-TV
View the full broadcast from famed documentarian Ken Burns’s visit to Bucknell, where he discussed his latest miniseries, “The Vietnam War,” and others with …
Los Angeles Times
Georgina Dodge, associate provost for diversity, equity and inclusion, shared her expertise in this story about Starbucks’ decision to mandate anti-bias …
The Washington Post
Professor of Economics Thomas Kinnaman provided expert insight for this article about recycling, using his research in Japan as evidence of a …