LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University’s School of Excellence in the Department of Business and Information Technology and the National Urban League will hold their annual Black Executive Exchange Program (BEEP) Conference March 5-6, 2007 in Dickey Hall Auditorium.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ How strong is the Chester County economy? What about its future growth? What are the county’s most recent trends? These and other questions will be answered when the Fourth Annual Chester County Economic Outlook Breakfast is held at 7:30 a.m., Friday, March 2 at Wyncote Golf Club of Oxford.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ The Rev. Christopher A. Bullock, a distinguished Wilmington, Del. minister and human rights activist, will deliver the keynote address when Lincoln University holds its Martin Luther King Jr. holiday observance on Thursday, January 18 at 4 p.m. in Dickey Hall Auditorium.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Langston Hughes Memorial Library will host a free six-part film viewing, reading and discussion series called “Looking At: Jazz, America’s Art Form.” The library is one of 50 libraries and nonprofit organizations nationwide selected to participate in the project’s pilot program organized by Re:New Media in partnership with the American Library Association (ALA) and Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC). The project is supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and locally by the Hadley Memorial Fund of Kennett Square.
Lincoln University President Dr. Ivory V. Nelson has been appointed by President George Bush to serve on the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
The board advises the president and the secretary of education on public and private issues relating to HBCUs. It meets four times a year, with its first meeting scheduled for February in Washington, DC.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. - The Lincoln University Concert Choir will hold its annual Christmas Concert on Thursday, November 30 at 7 p.m. at the Oxford Presbyterian Church, 6 Pine Street in Oxford.
A highlight of the concert will be the choir’s rendition of “Mass in G” by Franz Schubert. Works by Javier Busto, John W. Work, Amadeus Mozart and Georg Frideric Handel also will be performed. The choir will be joined by the Oxford Presbyterian Church Choir to sing the hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. - President Ivory V. Nelson has announced that Lincoln University has been awarded a three-year grant for $500,000 from the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
The project is titled, “Enhancing Physics and Engineering at Lincoln University: Characterization of Piezoelectric and Other Materials,” and will build on previous work with the material lab at Penn State University.
Dr. Nelson presented Dr. Marilyn Button with the Lindback Award for excellence in teaching. Dr. Button is a professor and chair of the Department of English and Mass Communications.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. - Dr. James K. Van Dover, a professor of English and American Literature at Lincoln University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria during the 2006-2007 academic year, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
The title of Dr. Van Dover’s lecture is “Detective Fiction and Theory and Development of the Novel.” His lecture begins in March and ends in July 2007.
