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4 unusual facts about Ursinus College


Ursinus College

Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Center, opened in April 2005 with a performance by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis.

The Ursinus College Greek community consists of six sororities, including Kappa Delta Kappa, Phi Alpha Psi, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Tau Sigma Gamma, Upsilon Phi Delta, and Omega Chi, and eight fraternities, including Alpha Phi Epsilon, Beta Sigma Lambda, Delta Pi Sigma, Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Kappa Sigma, Pi Omega Delta, Sigma Pi and Sigma Rho Lambda.

Baseball matches held against neighboring towns, hiking along the Perkiomen Creek and in nearby Valley Forge, and skating, bathing and boating in the Perkiomen were popular pastimes for students.

1972: Dr. Gerald Edelman '50, wins the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system, becoming the college's first Nobel laureate.


Bobby Fong

Bobby Fong is an American academic and the President of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Donald Camp

Donald E. Camp (born 1940 in Meadville, Pennsylvania) is an American artist, photographer, and professor of photography at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Joseph Melrose

Melrose currently serves Special Advisor to United Nations University Rector Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder and as president of the National Model United Nations Board of Directors and is a professor of International Relations and serves as the current ambassador-in-residence at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.


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