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Mercyhurst hosts dinner to honor Purple Heart veterans Monday, December 05, 2022 Mercyhurst University will roll out the red carpet for 40 area members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart when it hosts MOPH’s annual George Washington Dinner on Saturday, Dec. 10. The event takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Marriott Café, situated on the lower level of the university’s Center for Academic Engagement. The Purple Heart Medal is awarded to military veterans who were wounded or killed in…
PDE names Mercyhurst ‘Pennsylvania Hunger-Free Campus’ Tuesday, November 01, 2022 For all its initiatives aimed at eliminating food insecurity on campus, Mercyhurst University has been named a ”Pennsylvania Hunger-Free Campus” by the state Department of Education (PDE). To advance student food security efforts across the state, the Pennsylvania Office of the First Lady and PDE launched the Pennsylvania Hunger-Free Campus initiative. The initiative includes building a coalition of colleges and…
Celebrate with songs of comfort and joy at ‘A Mercyhurst Christmas Gala’ Friday, November 18, 2022 The D’Angelo Department of Music at Mercyhurst University is proud to present the annual holiday concert, “A Mercyhurst Christmas Gala,” featuring the talents of the Concert Choir, Civic Orchestra, and Wind Ensemble. This year’s celebration is so full of holiday cheer, it will be split into two separate concerts on Sunday, Dec. 4, at 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. on the Mercyhurst campus. “A Mercyhurst…
Twenty years of Fulbright gives Mercyhurst language, cultural clout Tuesday, October 04, 2022 Ulviye Sener, Mercyhurst University’s first Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA), was in for a surprise when she left Turkey for Erie. As a FLTA, she fully expected to tutor Mercyhurst students in Turkish, teach two classes in her native language, and even host cultural events. What she wasn’t sure of was what classes she would take. A requirement of her Fulbright assignment was that…
Mercyhurst football makes history hiring first female graduate assistant on coaching staff Wednesday, September 21, 2022 At 4’11”, what Mercyhurst University football coach Kalleigh Burke lacks in stature, she makes up for in smarts, skills, and good, old-fashioned moxie. Lakers head coach Ryan Riemedio did his due diligence—the interview, the resume, the references—but sensed immediately that she would be a keeper. “She was the most qualified candidate—hands down,” he said upon hiring Burke,…
Forensics aims to detect burial site of 1918 pandemic victims Tuesday, September 27, 2022 As a witness to the devastating aftermath of murders, plane crashes, and fatal fires, Mercyhurst University forensic anthropologist Dr. Dennis Dirkmaat is accustomed to being summoned to such scenes at all hours of the day and night. To have a chance to put his skills toward something strictly humanitarian is a welcome departure for both him and his students. That’s what he thought when a former student,…
Mercyhurst hosts watch party for NASA’s first asteroid redirection test Friday, September 23, 2022 NASA will deploy the world’s first planetary defense test mission, intentionally slamming a half-ton spacecraft into an asteroid to redirect its orbital path, on Monday, Sept. 26. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, allows scientists to gauge the viability of this technique to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth were one to be discovered. The spacecraft was built by the…
Visit accents Putin’s war, gray zones, intel opportunities Tuesday, October 18, 2022 It didn’t take an experienced human intelligence professional (HUMINT) like Fred Hoffman to interpret reactions among the people of Georgia to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. The signs were everywhere on his recent visit. Still, Hoffman’s years in the Intelligence Community (IC), working in 28 different countries as an interrogator, overt collector, military attaché, and, now as an assistant professor of…
State launches large-scale marijuana pardon project Wednesday, September 14, 2022 The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons has launched a one-time, large-scale initiative to pardon people with minor, nonviolent marijuana convictions. The Erie County Pardon Project, which has a hub location at Mercyhurst University, is available to assist Erie County residents with the application process. The Pennsylvania Marijuana Pardon Project, which runs through the month of September, is available for…
Hagen History Center counts three Hurst grads among staff Friday, October 21, 2022 It is always gratifying for professors to witness firsthand their students’ success and, for Mercyhurst History Professor Dr. Chris Magoc, that comes in triplicate this fall. He calls them “The Fabulous Mercyhurst Three of the Hagen History Center”—three Mercyhurst alumni who studied Public History & Museum Studies at the university and are now working together at the Erie center. KayAnn Warner '11 is a…