LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ President Ivory V. Nelson has announced the appointment of Lester N. Coney to the Board of Trustees of Lincoln University.
Coney, an accomplished corporate business development leader, will serve a four-year term. He is executive vice president and senior managing director of Mesirow Financial, Chicago’s most diversified financial services firm.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ “Lincoln University is in excellent shape,” declared President Ivory V. Nelson at the annual Faculty-Directors Conference at Wyncote Golf Club on Thursday.
President Nelson made the comment in his State of the University address at the event that signals the start of a new academic year. Lincoln begins its one hundred and fifty third academic year on August 22.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~Lincoln University will host an HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on Monday, August 20 at The Thurgood Marshall Living Learning Center at 10 a.m. followed in the evening by Tony winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, who will perform her one-woman show “Sometimes I Cry” at 7 in Manuel Rivero Hall.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University will host 30 graduate students coming to the United States for two weeks for further education as part of this year’s Fulbright Pre-Academic Summer Program. The students will arrive at Lincoln on July 22.
The students assigned to Lincoln will be involved in a program that focuses on English language and refinement of academic skills, Fulbright program goals, orientation to U.S. culture, survival skills for graduate students, and cross-cultural orientation.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Tehma H. Smith `00 has been elected and the Honorable Levan Gordon `58 re-elected to serve on the Lincoln University Board of Trustees as alumni representatives. Their four-year term ends in 2011.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ President Ivory V. Nelson has announced that Lincoln University, in partnership with Pennsylvania State College of Medicine, Lehigh Valley Hospital and Northeast Regional Cancer Institute, has been awarded a grant of $4.2 million over a four-year period to participate in an investigation of colorectal cancer in northeast Pennsylvania.
The grant has been awarded in response to the Pennsylvania Department of Health RFA for Collaborative Research on Vaccine Development or Gene-Environment Interactions. Lincoln will receive $471,966 over the project period.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Beaming in the crowd of graduates at the 148th Commencement at Lincoln University on May 6 was Lamonte Aidoo. He had good reason. Aidoo became the first ever student at the university to receive the prestigious Fulbright award.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University President Ivory V. Nelson has announced that the university, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State College of Medicine, has been awarded a $4.2 million grant to study gene-environment interactions that increase the risk of lung cancer in African-American and Caucasian smokers and non-smokers.
The study will be conducted under the Gene-Environmental Initiative of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET).
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University President Ivory V. Nelson has announced that the university, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania and Penn State College of Medicine, has been awarded a $4.2 million grant to study gene-environment interactions that increase the risk of lung cancer in African-American and Caucasian smokers and non-smokers.
The study will be conducted under the Gene-Environmental Initiative of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET).
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA ~ Lincoln University President Ivory V. Nelson has announced that N. Joyce Payne, James A. Scott and Rev. Jeremiah Wright will receive honorary degrees at the 148th Commencement exercise on Sunday, May 6 at 1:30 p.m. on the campus.
President Nelson announced previously that renowned neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of science degree.