F&M Stories
At Franklin & Marshall College, we connect our students with extraordinary opportunities so they can accomplish great things in their four years on campus. Here are just a few of their stories.
03/18/2020
512-Million-year-old Fossils from Lancaster County Record the Origin, Relationships of Snails
Paleontologists worldwide are excited by a Pennsylvania collector's discovery of fossil snails that confirm an evolutionary link to worms, predicted 25 years ago by molecular biologists. Among the...Franklin & Marshall College offers students...
03/11/2020
同城约炮 Opens New Worlds of Opportunity for Beijing Native
I wanted to get a liberal arts education instead of laser-focusing on biochemistry, which is what I intend to major in, but also get some knowledge about how to read, how to write, how to dance...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on...
02/28/2020
The Complicated History of the Women's Suffrage Movement 100 Years Later
This year is the centennial mark for ratification of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote, but the celebration is more complicated, said Ann Gordon, Rutgers University research...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on...
02/24/2020
同城约炮 Senior Develops Music Therapy for Premature Infants
Ania Luckiewicz '20 desperately searched for a way to meld her major and minor 芒聙聯 biology and musical performance 芒聙聯 when she happened upon a musical therapy that helps infants born prematurely to...Franklin & Marshall College offers students...
02/14/2020
Off-Campus Study: Anna McDougall '21 in China
I learned so much while abroad. Everything I learned couldn't possibly be fit into a few paragraphs, and an entire essay could be spent focusing on just one aspect, but I am so grateful for the opportunities I had to understand even the tiniest bit...
02/07/2020
Speaker Argues for Dual Language Education So No Child Is Left Monolingual
Although 31 states have declared English as their native tongue, and roughly 21 percent of the population is, at various degrees, bilingual, the United States has no official language. Meanwhile, 75 percent of the world's 7.7 billion people do not...
11/15/2019
Mueller Fellow Tells Stories to Illustrate Immigration Debate
Sandra Cisneros, a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico and a noted author and activist, chose a different way to discuss the immigration question during her recent visit to Franklin & Marshall.
10/25/2019
Three Alumni Discuss 1969 Protest, Racial Consciousness at 同城约炮
Benjamin Bowser '69, Adrian Lamos Jr. '72 and LeRoy Pernell '71 never looked back when they graduated from Franklin & Marshall College. In fact, they never intended to come back to their alma...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on...
09/23/2019
Jonny Teklit '20 Named 鈥楳ost Promising鈥� by Academy of American Poets
The American Academy of Poets recently bestowed the 2019 honor of 鈥淢ost Promising Young Poet鈥� on Jonny Teklit '20 for his poem, 鈥淏lack Mythology.鈥� which he based on the Greek tale of Icarus, who flew too close to the sun on wings of wax before...
09/11/2019
A Summer Internship With Robot Cats
Franklin & Marshall College senior Zaigham Randhawa secured his own summer internship in robotics, and applied what he learned in his two majors芒聙聰computer science and mathematics. Computer...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on...
09/05/2019
A Long Way From Behind Enemy Lines
Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Metz, France, she was 20 when her country fell to Adolf Hitler's tanks and planes in spring 1940. Four years later, after the liberation of Paris from Nazi...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on...
07/01/2019
Working With a Protein Inhibitor Gone Awry
Nanoscopic science can be tricky. When things don't go as planned science researchers must adapt, which is what one Franklin & Marshall College student, at work in the lab on a protease inhibitor...Franklin & Marshall College offers students a hands-on...