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World-class artist Betty Buckley in residence at Mercyhurst Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Emerging artists at Mercyhurst University will experience an exceptional opportunity to learn from a world-class performer when legendary actress and singer Betty Buckley conducts a weeklong acting workshop at Mercyhurst this fall. Buckley, whose career spans theatre, film, television, and concert halls around the world, will be in residence at Mercyhurst Monday-Friday, Sept. 19-23, and offer a public concert…
Bernadette’s back: to perform with Erie Phil on Mercyhurst stage Friday, August 19, 2022 The Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture’s 2022-2023 season commences in grand fashion on Saturday, Sept. 17, when Tony Award-winning Broadway superstar Bernadette Peters returns to Mercyhurst University, joining the Erie Philharmonic for a special one-night-only concert in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. Throughout her illustrious career, Bernadette Peters has dazzled audiences and critics…
Third female African American student steps into role as MSG president Friday, August 19, 2022 With the start of the 2022-2023 academic year, senior Lily Smith assumes her post as Mercyhurst Student Government (MSG) president. As such, she becomes the third female African American student to serve in the important role. Her predecessors are Emma (Newby) Mason ’59 and the late Rochelle George Wooding ’71. Just as Mercyhurst President Kathleen Getz, Ph.D., pledges a more inclusive community as…
Mercyhurst’s political science honor society earns ‘best chapter award’ Friday, August 19, 2022 Of the 800 chapters of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, Mercyhurst University has earned a Best Chapter Award for 2021-2022. The university’s Chi Epsilon chapter will be awarded along with five other chapters from institutions of similar size. The awards are intended to recognize local chapters that are particularly active in their institutions and communities and embody…
NPR – Forensic Anthropology Monday, August 22, 2022 Erie native Elissa Nadworny, who has done several stories featuring Mercyhurst University in her career with NPR, writes about the skeletons found in many of today’s classrooms, including her former high school of Collegiate Academy, and her search for whose bones they are. That search led her to Mercyhurst University and its team of forensic anthropologists. Read Encore: Classroom skeleton — whose bones are these? | KUNC . … NPR – Forensic…
Four alumni pay tribute to program director Dennis Dirkmaat in journal article Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Four Mercyhurst University alumni, all working at different universities and companies as forensic anthropologists, have had an article accepted in the scientific journal, Forensic Anthropology, about their mentor, Dr. Dennis Dirkmaat, chair of Applied Forensic Sciences at Mercyhurst. “Forensic Anthropology is a scientific journal—the first one devoted exclusively to the field—and this kind…
Mercyhurst, Erie Insurance host hometown celebration for Gov. Tom Ridge Wednesday, August 24, 2022 (EDITOR’S NOTE: A chronic knee condition that flared up Wednesday morning prohibited Gov. Ridge from attending the event in his honor. His wife, Michele, accepted the award on his behalf.) Mercyhurst University and Erie Insurance hosted a hometown reception for Gov. Tom Ridge, who recently received the 2022 William Oliver Baker Award for his extraordinary contributions to U.S. intelligence and…
Moog music: Albert Glinsky writes biography of trendsetter Bob Moog Thursday, August 25, 2022 What do The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun,” Stevie Wonder’s "Living for the City," and Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like a Hole” have in common? How about the soundtracks of “A Clockwork Orange,” “The Shining,” and “Tron?” In each case, the recording artist embraced the electric sound of the Moog synthesizer, a technology invented by American engineer Bob Moog in 1964 that created a musical revolution. After…
Mercyhurst ROTC cadets rise to physical, mental challenges Monday, August 29, 2022 Whether rappelling from a helicopter midair or climbing the highest mountain in Taipei, 15 cadets with Mercyhurst University’s Pride of Pennsylvania Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) spent the summer being challenged physically and mentally. Three cadets—Jared Camp, Theodore Counihan, and Ryan Davey—attended an Air Assault course at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, which is used to train soldiers and cadets in Air…
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