LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA– Clinical cardiac surgeon, Charles R. Bridges, M.D., Sc.D will be the invited lecturer for The Amos Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 4 p.m. The lecture will be held in the newly renovated Ware Center Theater on Lincoln’s main campus in southern Chester County, PA.
The lecture will be on “A Black History of Science.” The event is free and open to the public.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – The Kennett Symphony of Chester County’s brings the treasured children’s book character Babar the Elephant to life with music and narration, as the centerpiece of their annual Free Children’s Concert and Instrument Petting Zoo. The Symphony, under the direction of Music Director Mary Woodmansee Green, will offer two free children’s concerts this year. Saturday, March 20 at 2:00 pm the Kennett Symphony will perform at Lincoln University’s new International Cultural Center on Baltimore Pike at Elkdale Avenue.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Lincoln University, the first historically black university, was invited to CBS studios in New York to view a live production of the Evening News with Katie Couric on Friday, March 12, 2010.
Heather Tesoriero, Evening News medical producer, coordinated the University visit. Tesoriero was first introduced to the Mass Communications program and its impressive students in December when she was sent to cover the University’s innovative approach to combating obesity.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Seven students, studying under the Teacher Education and Urban Pedagogy Center of Excellence at Lincoln University, presented their research at the 31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, the largest such meeting of qualitative researchers of education in the world.
The forum was held on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE).
he Langston Hughes Program for the Promotion of Arts and the Visual Arts Center of Excellence will host slide lectures by artist, Derrick Adams, conceptual artist in New York and Leo Mazow, curator of American Art at the Palmer Museum of Art, located at Penn State University in a joint program on March 4, 2010 at 4:30 PM in the Ware Center Theater at Lincoln University.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA– Avid writer, poet and literary scholar, Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin will be the invited lecturer for the Amos Scholarly Lecture Series on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4 p.m. The lecture will be held in the newly renovated Ware Center Theater on Lincoln’s main campus in southern Chester County, PA. The topic being discussed is “Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers.”
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Dr. Benjamin Chavis Jr., co-founder, president and CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), will speak at Lincoln University on Thursday, February 18, at 11 a.m. in the Ware Center Theater, on the University’s main campus in southern Chester County.
Dr. Chavis’ speech will be a testimony of the pivotal event that occurred in Oxford, NC, which spawned the making of the Civil Rights focused movie, Blood Done Sign My Name (2010). Afterward, there will be a screening of the movie.
Lincoln University, PA — Sheila Oliver, Lincoln University alumna, class of 1974, became New Jersey’s first black female assembly speaker on January 12, 2010 at a swearing-in ceremony at the Trenton War Memorial near the Statehouse.
The keynote speaker is Bishop David G. Evans, a Lincoln graduate and new Chairman of the Board of Trustees, critically acclaimed and best-selling author, television and radio host. The occasion also marks the first time the University holds an event in its new $26.1 million International Cultural Center.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA – Reggie Smith III, English and Mass Communications graduate of 1992, received national recognition for community service during the 2009 Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) Conference. Twelve of his colleagues joined him in Baltimore on February 18-22 to receive their awards.