Seize the Opportunity
Millersville University is the best choice for people of Pennsylvania and beyond who are motivated to apply their native intelligence and a world-class education to the challenging and important work of guiding themselves, their families and their communities through times of changing opportunity.
The men and women of the Millersville University faculty are scholars highly respected in their fields; approachable teachers and active mentors who engage their students in the classroom, the office, the research lab, and in the life of the campus.
The faculty is thoroughly supported in its work by the men and women of the Millersville University staff and leadership team -caring people of competence and integrity who share with their faculty partners a determination that Millersville graduates shall be a prepared to lead robust intellectual, professional and civic lives as the graduates of any of the nation's best known institutions.
Founded in service to a rural nineteenth-century Lancaster, Pennsylvania, twenty-first century Millersville University is a vibrant public liberal arts university in a vital economic region; it is dedicated to securing the present and future prosperity of the Commonwealth by developing citizens who can think, create, communicate and collaborate, and in so doing, contribute meaningfully to the betterment of our world community.
The Millersville University experience will empower students to make a significant difference in the communities where they will live and work. Millersville will be a premier comprehensive public university.
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First Commonwealth Productization Center
Millersville University has received a Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) University/Business Infrastructure Seed Grant to establish the Computer Software Productization Center (CSPC). The Center is founded on the expertise of MU faculty and students, as well as local community advisors. The CSPS initiative, the first of its kind in the Commonwealth, involves interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Millersville Professor Searching for a Cure
Drs. Stanley and Doris Lefkowitz, retired faculty from Texas Tech School of Medicine are searching for a cure for MD. Not only is Doris Lefkowitz, Stanley Lefkowitz's wife, affected by MD but so is their son. Doris Lefkowitz and her son were diagnosed with Facioscapulohumeral (FSH) Muscular Dystrophy. About 35 years ago, the family heard of an experimental treatment for MD available in Japan. The treatment was a success, but the scientist who prepared the treatment suddenly died and the drug was lost.
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Doing Their Part for the Environment
With the release of Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," the effect of greenhouse gases (GHG) on the global environment has become an issue of greater significance to many people. Students in Dr. Kathleen Schreiber's, geography, "Climate and Society" course have begun compiling a GHG inventory for the Millersville University campus.
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Shaking Things Up at Millersville
Magnitude 5.2 Earthquake Rattles U.S. Midwest-April 18, 2008. Small Earthquake Hits Near Reading, PA-December 13, 2006. Pennsylvania's biggest earthquake, 5.2 magnitude, occurred on September 25, 1998. What do these earthquakes have in common? All were recorded by Millersville University's seismograph.
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Walker Center Opens
Former Congressman Bob Walker was joined by Millersville President Francine G. McNairy and William Reuter, chairman, president and CEO of Susquehanna Bancshares, on December 10 to announce the Robert and Sue Walker Center for Civic Responsibility and Leadership. The Center will be part of the Civic and Community Engagement and Research Project (CCERP) on campus.
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Millersville's Promise
Millersville University provides an educational opportunity second to none. Seize the opportunity.
Millersville University is the best choice for people of Pennsylvania and beyond who are motivated to apply their native intelligence and a world-class education to the challenging and important work of guiding themselves, their families and their communities through times of changing opportunity.
The men and women of the Millersville University faculty are scholars highly respected in their fields; approachable teachers and active mentors who engage their students in the classroom, the office, the research lab, and in the life of the campus.
The faculty is thoroughly supported in its work by the men and women of the Millersville University staff and leadership team -caring people of competence and integrity who share with their faculty partners a determination that Millersville graduates shall be a prepared to lead robust intellectual, professional and civic lives as the graduates of any of the nation's best known institutions.
Founded in service to a rural nineteenth-century Lancaster, Pennsylvania, twenty-first century Millersville University is a vibrant public liberal arts university in a vital economic region; it is dedicated to securing the present and future prosperity of the Commonwealth by developing citizens who can think, create, communicate and collaborate, and in so doing, contribute meaningfully to the betterment of our world community.