Our Centers

Dive into your interests. The centers at Ursinus College offers a hands-on experiences and networking opportunities to do just that.

Centers at Ursinus

Dig Deeper.

Our Centers provide additional pathways, experiences and connections that enhance your academic and personal pursuits (and distinguish you to grad schools and industry!)

Whether your passion lies in business, entrepreneurship, medicine, healthcare or global service, these centers are for students of ALL majors and help accelerate your future.

Our Centers

Global & Civic Engagement
Melrose Center for Global Civic Engagement
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Science & Ethics
Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good
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U-Imagine Center
U-Imagine Center
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Your academic endeavors are enhanced and broadened by our centers, offering students and faculty a platform for a deeper collaborative and interdisciplinary engagement.

Comprised of close-knit groups of highly motivated students, each center is open to students from all degree paths. You’ll gain access to programs and people who can impact your career exploration and graduate school admissions.

Melrose Fellow Tia Alan '24 has earned a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. Alan is exploring her passion for language while teaching English at a university in Morocco on a Fulbright fellowship—one of the world’s largest and most diverse international educational programs.
Parlee Fellow and neuroscience major Ashton Newswanger ’26 took part in a ten-week NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the Center for Neurotechnology at the University of Washington. This culminated in his project, “Sex Differences in Anxiety and Locomotion After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury” which he presented at the University of Washington’s Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Each spring, the U-Imagine Center hosts the BEAR Innovation Competition. For the competition, participants develop a conceptual or early business startup, receive guidance from real entrepreneurs, and present for a chance to win $10,000 in cash prizes. AMSP