by Gordon Perlmutter | Jan 15, 2020
CANCELLED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC With the ratification of the 19th Amendment, August 20, 1920, women gained the right to vote in the United States. One hundred years later, women are realizing an increasingly stronger presence in elective offices across...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Nov 16, 2019
In seven remarkable decades, East Penn Manufacturing, headquartered in Lyons, Pennsylvania, has grown from a one-room shop with a product line of five automobile batteries to one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers with over 10,000 employees, 450 product...
by WAC Reading | Nov 15, 2019
Acclaimed New York Times Columnist, David Brooks, will speak to Alvernia’s First Year Seminar classes on his book, “The Road to Character”, this year’s common read. David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September...
by WAC Reading | Nov 6, 2019
The third film in this year’s Global Oscar Film Series is the Lebanonese movie “Capernaum”. Hope you and/or your students can join us Tuesday, November 12, 6:15 pm in Luerssen 005. After running away from his poverty-stricken life in the slums of...
by Gordon Perlmutter | Aug 7, 2019
Sponsored by Comcast Keystone Region. International Women’s Month speaker: Joan Johnson-Freese Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese is a University Professor, holds the Charles F. Bolden, Jr. Chair in Science, Space & Technology, and is former Chair of the National...
