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.
12/05/2024
A Passion for Art of the Past Inspires a Future
At F&M, Keats Dai ’23 felt empowered to explore all her interests. After finding her niche in art history, she is now a curatorial assistant at Shanghai Arts and Design Company. “My experiences equipped me with the bravery to dive into the unknown...
11/27/2024
Students Explore Campus and Community in History of Science Course
First-year students at Franklin & Marshall College are heading out of the classroom and into the laboratory—and surrounding community—as part of the course “A Hands-On History of Biology.”
11/22/2024
Professor to Study How Cities Are Reshaping Democracy
Franklin & Marshall's Stephanie McNulty is receiving $200,000, part of a $1.4 million award, shared across four continents by 25 researchers.
11/20/2024
Five Years Later: Class of 2019 Advice and Outcomes
Five years after graduating, young alumni share the best advice they have for current students and reflect on what made F&M feel like home.
11/18/2024
F&M Professor Joins Elite Company of Scholars
A Franklin & Marshall College religious studies professor has taken a fellowship at a prestigious scholarly center where some of the 20th century’s intellectual titans have studied.
11/18/2024
F&M Remembers Benefactor and Trustee Emerita Patricia G. Ross Weis P’85
Patricia G. Ross Weis P’85, who served on the F&M Board of Trustees for 16 years and whose gifts enhanced both residential and academic life at the College, died Oct. 30. She was 94.
11/15/2024
Students Promote Civic Engagement Through F&M Votes
F&M Votes, a nonpartisan coalition of students, faculty, and staff, spent the months leading up to the election engaged in voter registration, education, and motivation activities. The organization's student co-chairs share their experience and talk...
11/13/2024
Sophomore Explores Emergency Medicine
Faisal Niazi ’27, an aspiring surgeon, spent his summer learning to be an EMT with Harrisburg Area Community College and Penn Medicine/Lancaster General Health.
11/11/2024
Behind the Scenes: Sophomore Sojourn
Forty F&M students recently traveled to Gretna Glen for the Sophomore Sojourn, a recent F&M tradition open to students in their second year on campus.
11/08/2024
Anthropology Major Pursues Passion for Nonprofit Work
For Jonah Fisher ’26, an internship with a local nonprofit led to a job where he is already practicing the skills from his Franklin & Marshall classes. Fisher completed an internship with Homefields, a nonprofit in Millersville, Pa., that engages...
11/06/2024
Where Research Can Take You
Undergraduates don’t usually present research before a national organization of professionals, but that was the unlikely situation a Franklin & Marshall student found herself in this year.
11/04/2024
‘I Wanted to Become Better Connected with Lancaster’: Reflections from a Municipal Internship
Ethan Grabowski ’26, a government and history major, spent his summer interning at the Lancaster County Commissioners’ Office. See a day in his life in politics.