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. Marilyn Button (left) receives award from Lincoln President Ivory V. Nelson
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.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. - Lincoln University President Ivory V. Nelson has received the The Education Leadership Award presented by the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund (TMSF) on Monday, October 23 in New York, home of the national organization created to provide financial assistance to students attending public historically black colleges and universities.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. – Operation: Get Tested Presentation will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Student Union Building at Lincoln University on Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. Operation: Get Tested provides youths with an opportunity to get tested free of charge. Lincoln University students are encouraged to get tested during this event.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. – Lincoln University will host the second of a five-part book reading and discussion series on Jewish literature on Sunday, October 22 at 3 p.m. in the Langston Hughes Memorial Library.
Funded in part by a Pennsylvania Humanities Council grant, the series explores the themes of estrangement and homecoming. Drexel University professor Dr. Emilie Passow will lead the discussion.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA. - (September 2006) ~ Lincoln University will hold its annual Fall Open House at Manuel Rivero Hall Gymnasium at 9 a.m. on Friday, October 20, 2006.
Organized by the Office of Admissions, Open House is an event that provides an opportunity for prospective students and their parents or guardians to meet with university faculty, staff, and students and to gain firsthand information about the university’s academic programs and extracurricular activities.