http://www.dailyitem.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:22:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_078082344.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_078082344.html The plight of the working poor and the widening gap between the very rich and the very poor were the dominant themes of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Working for Change: Citizenship and Class in America,” a speech she gave Monday night in the Weis Center for the Performing Arts on the Bucknell University campus. Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:04:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_058110520.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_058110520.html Too often, American diplomacy opts for stability in the form of dictatorships rather than taking a chance on democracy, an Ethiopian scholar told a Bucknell University crowd Tuesday night. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:15:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_028101732.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_028101732.html The scientific community has reached a strong consensus on the science of global climate change. The world is warming as a result of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from human activities including industrial processes, fossil fuel combustion and changes in land use. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:12:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_028101402.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_028101402.html Businesses can do a lot on an everyday basis to go green, suggests Jess Scott, an environmental activist and senior at Bucknell University. Ms. Scott is one of the major organizers of Focus the Nation, a teach-in at Bucknell on Jan. 31 that will feature a Business Expo as one of its many daylong events. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:04:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_014110516.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_014110516.html A panel of distinguished religion experts representing a broad spectrum of thought will examine "Religion and Politics in America" in a Bucknell Forum discussion Wednesday, Feb. 6. Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:01:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_014110316.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_014110316.html Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's "Mad Money," best-selling author, and co-founder of the Internet financial news hub TheStreet.com, will lead off the spring 2008 lineup for the national speaker series, "The Bucknell Forum: The Citizen and Politics in America." Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:48:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_014104920.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_014104920.html The Small Business Development Center at Bucknell University will host a “Businesswomen’s Roundtable: Secrets for Communication Success,” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in Room 256 of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:08:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_013010946.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_013010946.html Straight out of the 1960s’ campus playbook for raising awareness on issues of national importance comes “Focus The Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America,” a daylong teach-in Jan. 31 at Bucknell University. Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:28:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_360062855.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_360062855.html Bucknell University will join more than 500 colleges and universities across the country Jan. 31 to discuss global climate change and its potential solutions in a daylong teach-in called Focus the Nation. It is expected to be the largest teach-in in United States history. Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:36:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_337143235.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_337143235.html If watching the TV show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” makes you question your intelligence, then seeing 7-yearolds practically run their own chess workshop sure would. Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:20:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_306082122.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_306082122.html What would you do if someone asked you to inflict pain on an innocent person? You might say you’d refuse. You might say you’d be offended and outraged at the mere suggestion that you would be capable of something so inhumane. Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:26:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_301072814.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_301072814.html Bucknell University’s relationship with Lewisburg is a model for how rural universities and their communities work together, school President Brian C. Mitchell said Saturday. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:27:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_288142804.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_288142804.html Award-winning poet and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott read from a collection of his poems and described how his mother and Greek literature influenced his writing before a crowd of more than 500 gathered Oct. 9 at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts. Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:48:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_288135032.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_288135032.html Bucknell University alumni, numbering more than 47,000 worldwide, will have easily accessible and readily available alumni news and university event information thanks to a unique collaboration between Bucknell, the nation’s largest private liberal arts university, and A4AMobile®, the one-stop solution for scalable, results-oriented, mobile marketing. Bucknell and A4AMobile have announced the launch of a carrier-independent, alumni mobile wireless platform and WAP-site (Wireless Application Protocol). Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:15:00 +0000 http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_281111530.html http://www.dailyitem.com/0914_bucknell_university/local_story_281111530.html The National Science Foundation recently funded two proposals by Bucknell University professors related to the study of soil-bentonite cutoff walls, commonly used as barriers against groundwater pollutants.