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.
08/16/2023
Closing the Gender Gap in Finance
Kriti Krishna '18 and Lia Tavarez '20 are working together to make investments more accessible for female entrepreneurs through HearstLab, a a venture fund for women-led startups.
08/10/2023
F&M Faculty Uncover History of Underground Railroad in Lancaster
A historic home in downtown Lancaster is being turned into a museum by LancasterHistory, thanks in part to contributions by Franklin & Marshall College faculty.
08/04/2023
Young Alum Startup Merges Art and Economics
Mark Marotta '21 launched Amparo in his senior year at F&M, a web platform for emerging and established fine artists to display original paintings in a virtual stage setting.
07/31/2023
Rising Sophomore Puts Passion for Environment to Work at Summer Internship
Rising sophomore Anna Atticks is digging deep on environmental issues during her summer internship as a policy analyst, funded by the Schapiro-Cadwell Internship Endowment.
07/29/2023
Students Tune Into a Cosmic Hum
A team of students search the starry skies for “cosmic clocks,” part of an international research project that this week reported evidence of gravitational waves that oscillate periodically from years to decades.
07/26/2023
F&M Appoints New Members to Board of Trustees
The Franklin & Marshall Board of Trustees voted to elect its newest members during the Board’s spring meeting. F&M is proud to welcome the following recently elected trustees, who began their terms on July 1.
07/26/2023
Summer Research Goes Interstellar
A 2023 Hackman scholar, rising junior Delaney Adair is analyzing data from telescopes around the world to study protoplanetary nebula M1-92.
07/25/2023
F&M Voices: 25 Years in the Library
View a video highlighting Jenn Buch, the 2023 recipient of the Richard Kneedler Distinguished Service Award.
07/24/2023
Students Research Ancient Climate Through Stream Restoration
In deep long trenches that a backhoe shoveled, students collected samples from black wetland soil that has not seen the light of day for more than 300 years.
07/19/2023
F&M Data Science Major Debuts in Fall
This fall, F&M will offer as a new major data science, applicable in practically everything, from business to health care to transportation.
07/17/2023
Visiting Lancaster? See Our Students’ Favorite Spots
Visiting F&M this summer? Check out this list of places to visit, curated by our very own students!
07/13/2023
Meet Elshaddai Muchuwa, Rising Sophomore and Global Scholar
This summer, Elshaddai Muchuwa is returning to his roots as an instructor with the Yale Young Global Scholars Program. He is among the few instructors from the class of 2026 and even fewer from a non-Ivy League school who will run self-proposed seminars...