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Students and faculty do an archeological dig by the Speakers House in Trappe. July 11, 2024 - Drone Shots
History Beneath Our Feet: Untold Stories Discovered at The Speaker’s House

Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Katharine Davis and a group of students have spent the summer working on an archaeological dig project The Speaker’s House located right up the road from Ursinus College in Trappe

Ursinus College Unveils APEX

APEX at Ursinus is a transformative new learning ecosystem combining academic Inquiry with real-world experiences. Nearly $10M in commitments from donors have been made to date for APEX implementation, which begins in fall 2025. 

Ursinus College students abroad in Mexico
Examining Health in the Yucatán: Ursinus Students Embark on First Study Abroad Trip to Mexico

For the first time in the college’s history, students embarked on a study-abroad trip to Mexico to learn about global health while exploring the Yucatán Peninsula. 

Students and faculty do an archeological dig by the Speakers House in Trappe. July 11, 2024 - Drone Shots
History Unearthed

The restoration of the centuries-old Speakers House—once an Ursinus College residence hall—in neighboring Trappe is a passion project decades in the making for historian Lisa Minardi ’04. And she has some help from aspiring Ursinus archaeologists.

Tia Alan '24
A Love of Language: Tia Alan ’24 Earns Prestigious Fulbright Fellowship

As a Fulbright awardee, Alan will be a standalone professor at a university in Morocco for 10 months beginning in August.

CoSA Poster session

CoSA 2025: Celebration of Student Achievement

April 23, 2025 | All Day
All Campus

Every April, we reschedule classes for a day so every student can participate in the Celebration of Student Achievement (CoSA). The day is filled with talks, poster presentations, and performances from hundreds of students from every discipline, from first-year students to seniors.

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