This year marks a decade of hosting "4th Graders As Scientists," which promotes careers in the sciences with local students! Listen to Kaitlyn Carlson '24, who says her experience as a past volunteer in the program set the foundation for her dream job at the French Creek Valley Conservancy.
People & Places, emailed monthly during the academic year to the campus community, reports on the professional activities of members of the college community and highlights student achievements.
Anna Westbrook '26, news editor of The Campus, and Sam Heilmann '26, editor-in-chief of The Campus, were among those honored this summer by the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania at the Golden Quills Awards dinner in Pittsburgh.
(Warning: content may be triggering for some.) A spring semester exhibit by assistant professor of ceramics and sculpture for the studio art program, Ian F. Thomas, drew attention for its poignant and powerful commentary on gun violence in America. Titled “Everything Will Be Okay,” the exhibit used everyday objects to create a visceral and thought-provoking […]
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability Delia Byrnes contributed an essay titled “Ecocriticism: From the Wilderness Idea to Just Multispecies Futures” to the edited collection The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice, which was published on November 20, 2023. Her essay traces the theoretical field of ecocriticism from its origins in European and […]
Allegheny College received a $299,925 grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to support student summer research in the sciences. Dr. Matt Venesky, associate professor of biology and director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (URSCA), is the project director. During each year of the three-year grant, funding will cover stipends for […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized Allegheny College for achieving its energy savings goal as a partner in the Better Buildings Challenge. The event was hosted by the White House and attended by Kelly Boulton, Director of Sustainability. Allegheny College is one of only four higher education institutions recognized as Better Buildings Challenge 2023 […]
People & Places is a monthly highlight of the ongoing professional activities and achievements of faculty, staff, and students of the College. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies Carl Olson’s essay titled, “Uttering Curses in Classical Hinduism: An Inquiry into Power and Violence,” will be published by Studies in Linguistics and Literature. Early next […]
People & Places is a monthly highlight of the ongoing professional activities and achievements of faculty, staff, and students of the College. Blake Neiderlander ’24 recently completed a ten-week-long biomedical ethics research internship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as one of the six candidates selected for this highly competitive program. Over the summer, […]
People & Places is a monthly highlight of the ongoing professional activities and achievements of faculty, staff, and students of the College. Adrienne Krone, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Sustainability and Religious Studies, and Brittany Davis, previously Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Black Studies at Allegheny, published a chapter in the book Key […]
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