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Let the buses roll: Mercyhurst gears up for traditional Day of Service Wednesday, August 10, 2022 Mercyhurst President Kathleen A. Getz, Ph.D., will do the official send-off when the university’s newest students gather in the Mary Garden on Monday, Aug. 22, at 9:30 a.m. for the annual Day of Service. This traditional Welcome Week service project is for all first-year students, faculty/staff facilitators, and Laker Leaders. Participants gather for an opening ceremony before boarding 12 yellow…
Academic Affairs announces new faculty Thursday, August 11, 2022 With the approach of the 2022-2023 academic year, Mercyhurst University welcomes 9 new faculty to the ranks, according to the Office of Academic Affairs. "I am delighted to welcome these new faculty members to the university,” said Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Joanne Hosey-McGurk. “Their influence as talented educators, researchers, collaborators, and mentors will be felt across their respective disciplines and beyond…
Geology Professor Nick Lang ‘on loan’ to NASA Friday, August 12, 2022 For the next two years, Geology Professor Nicholas Lang is taking leave of his Mercyhurst University classroom to work for NASA. He won’t be doing the kind of research he has honed at Mercyhurst, but he will be exposed to the inner workings of NASA research operations and have a role in choosing what research projects get funded. The temporary assignment as a “discipline scientist” with the federal agency’s Planetary Science…
Mercyhurst Theatre Program stages madcap murder mystery Monday, August 15, 2022 (EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to illness, the original performances of "Lucky Stiff" are canceled. The new dates are Oct. 21-22 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. We regret any inconvenience.) The Mercyhurst Theatre Program opens its 2022-2023 season with the musical farce “Lucky Stiff,” running Sept. 8-11 in Taylor Little Theatre. Based on the novel “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” by Michael Butterworth, “Lucky…
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…
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…
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 mourns passing of Brad McGarry, former AIM director and international advocate for people on the autism spectrum Monday, December 11, 2023 On Sunday, Dec. 10, Mercyhurst University lost one of its most beloved community members and the world lost a tireless advocate for children and adults on the autism spectrum. Brad McGarry, director of the Autism Initiative at Mercyhurst (AIM) for nearly a decade, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He…