January 12th, 2016
Bucknell Ranked as Second-Best School in PA by CollegeFactual.com

The website CollegeFactual.com recently ranked colleges in all 50 states, and in Pennsylvania, Bucknell University came in as the No. 2 ranked school in the …

The website CollegeFactual.com recently ranked colleges in all 50 states, and in Pennsylvania, Bucknell University came in as the No. 2 ranked school in the …
Bucknell University professor Zhiqun Zhu, political science and international relations and the John D. MacArthur Chair of East Asian Politics, was recently interviewed for …
Bucknell University graduate Scott Charles ’96 was recently appointed Chief Financial Officer of POZEN, Inc., a pharmaceutical company based in Chapel Hill, N.C. He …
Katie Oliver ’91 was recently elected as a judge on the Centre County (PA) Court of Common Pleas. She is just the second woman ever …
The second annual Dance Marathon, held on Nov. 7 in Davis Gym, raised over $20,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network at Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s …
Thomas L. Williams ’80, who has been CEO of the Parker-Hannifin Corporation for nearly a year, was recently also elected Chairman of the Board at …
Joan Cadigan ’86 was recently named the new Executive Director of the Phoenixville Community Education Foundation (PCEF). Cadigan previously spent several years as the Vice-President …
Professor Matthew Slater, philosophy, has been named the winner of the 2015 Popper Prize from the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science …
Ronald Liebowitz ’79 was recently named the new president at Brandeis University. Liebowitz, who was honored by the Bucknell Alumni Association in 2014 with …
Ed Wise ’81, the CEO of The CDM Group, the world’s largest fully-integrated healthcare communications company, was recently featured in Profile Magazine with an extensive …
Carbon Roots International (CRI), a non-profit co-founded in 2010 by M. Ryan Delaney ’06, is in the running for a grant from The Great Energy …
Kate Jansen ’16 and her team with the technology startup Friendress were recently featured in a newspaper article in the Wilton Bulletin out of her …
Greg Schiano ’88, P’19, was recently named the defensive coordinator and associate head football coach at Ohio State University. Schiano most recently was a …
Professor DeeAnn Reeder, biology, is a co-leader of a new study by Fauna & Flora International that has photographed a critically endangered elephant …

The website collegerank.net recently ranked Bucknell’s campus quad No. 37 in its list of “The 50 Most Beautiful Campus Quads.”
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Harvey Edwards ’78 was recently honored as the 2015 State Advisor of the Year by the Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils. Edwards, who holds a …
P. George Benson ’68, a Lewisburg native and the former president of the College of Charleston, was recently recognized with the 2015 Outstanding Directors Award …

Last week, a new report came out that ranked Bucknell No. 34 among over 1,400 four-year colleges in median salary 10 years following initial enrollment. …
Brian Hitchings ’84 recently joined SSH Real Estate as a Senior Vice-President. SSH is a commercial real estate company based in Philadelphia that serves the …
Shelby Radcliffe M’12, who is also a former member of the advancement team and Director of Campaign Administration at Bucknell, has been named the Vice …
Bucknell University is the recipient of a grant from the Teagle Foundation along with Franklin & Marshall College and the University of Pennsylvania. The $280,000 …

Data from the U.S. Department of Education analyzed and published in a new report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows …

Bucknell University’s Weis Center for the Performing Arts has been named as one of the top 10 college performing arts centers in the country by …
Professor Charles Kim, mechanical engineering, is the recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Faculty Award from the Kern Family Foundation for his accomplishments in …
Marc Yaklofsky ’92 has been named Senior Vice-President of Corporate Development at Franklin Square, an alternate investments firm founded in 2007. He holds a bachelor’s …
Two Bucknell alums were recently named to leadership roles at Glassdoor, a top jobs recruiting and informational website.
Kristina Leslie ’86, former Chief Financial …
Mark Stasium ’87 has been named Senior Vice-President, commercial real estate lending officer at Camden National Bank in Portland, Maine. Stasium hold a bachelor’s …
Former Bucknell University Provost Mick Smyer, who is currently taking a sabbatical from the university as he prepares for a fellowship, recently had an article …
Professor Regina Gazes ’04, psychology and the Animal Behavior Program, is a co-author of a new recently published paper, detailing a study that …
Stone Hearth News
Professor Mark Haussmann, biology, says his research “will be important for predicting how early adversity impacts human health and how changing environmental …
Religion & Politics
Professor Brantley Gasaway, religious studies, discusses the work of contemporary progressive evangelicals whose political activism, starting in the 1960s, diverged from the …
Wall Street Journal
Imaging studies by Professor Andrea Halpern, psychology, have shown that deliberately imagining music and actually listening to music activate many of the …
Canadian Chiropractor
Professor Charles Kim, mechanical engineering, along with colleagues at other universities, won a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s National Robotics …
Aleksandar Antonov ’17, Alexander Breakstone ’17 and Emily Campbell ’17 were named National Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation (Epicenter) University Innovation Fellows, a …
NPR – WBUR
Professor Tom Kinnaman, economics, tackles tough questions about recycling: Is it working? Does it add up? …
Bucknell senior mechanical engineering major Claire Rodgers was named a 2015 Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC) Campus Sustainability Champion. She received the award at PERC’s …
Here & Now
Bucknell University economist Thomas Kinnaman shares his vision for how the U.S. should be recycling. …
USA Today
In the Ronald Reagan Run, members of Bucknell University’s TKE Beta Mu chapter run 182 miles from Lewisburg, Pa., to the White House …
Food Service Director
John Cummins, general manager of resident dining, says the concept of fast-casual dining options is “this idea of personalization. Not just in …
New York Times
Rather than recycling all of our trash, Professor Thomas Kinnaman, economics, says it would be much simpler and more effective to impose …
The Diplomat
Professor Zhiqun Zhu, director of the China Institute and MacArthur Chair of East Asian Politics, explains why the two ambitious projects have become …
North Carolina Construction News
Professor Michael Toole, civil and environmental engineering, says there are practical and ethical reasons why the design for construction safety concept …
The Atlantic
Professor Jennifer Silva, sociology, conducted research that revealed that working-class young people (ages 24 to 34) are no longer setting their sights on …
Washington Post
Professor Ken Field, biology, says he hopes his research is a positive step toward finding a way to strengthen the immune system of …
Fast Company
Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Museum at Bucknell University, says that when preserving digital art, museums haven’t always thought to collect …
Huffington Post
Professor Chris Martine, biology, and his lab group named a new species of bush tomato Solanum watneyi after Mark Watney, the main character …
China Daily
Professor Zhiqun Zhu, director of the China Institute and MacArthur Chair of East Asian Politics, said China and the United States, permanent members …
Daily Item
Bucknell University President John Bravman spoke at the Geisinger at 100 Symposium about the the relationships area colleges and universities have with Geisinger …
Medical Design Technology
Professor Charles Kim, mechanical engineering, and collaborators at Columbia Engineering and the Columbia University Medical Center are developing a dynamic spine brace …