During a normal summer on the Allegheny College campus, work-study students would be busily tending to the lush and productive organic garden adjacent to Carr Hall, known as the Carrden. But in summer 2020 — with almost no students on campus — the daily tasks of pruning, weeding and harvesting have fallen on Kerstin Ams, […]
Alexandra Downer, a rising senior from Pittsburgh, has a busy academic schedule at Allegheny College as a psychology major and an education studies minor, but she finds the time and energy to boost fundraising on behalf of her Delta Delta Delta sorority chapter and the patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee. Downer […]
Kirsten Peterson, a 1978 Allegheny College graduate and a member of the Gateway Pre-Professional Studies staff, received the Buck Hill ’68 Award from the Northeast Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NEAAHP) during its June 2020 annual meeting, which was held online. Peterson was honored for her outstanding service to NEAAHP and the National […]
Allegheny College is among the nation’s first colleges to sign a new collective statement—now endorsed by more than 350 admissions deans—that seeks to send clear messages about what Allegheny and other institutions value in students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The statement also aims to relieve stresses on students and their caregivers and to promote equity […]
Allegheny College Archivist and alumna Ruth Andel ’85 and Digital Resources Librarian Beau Smith have set out on a project that will chronicle the tumultuous days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement to bring social justice and equality to the nation during the spring and summer of 2020. In May, the project team sent […]
History professor Alyssa Ribeiro authored this piece in the Made by History section of the Washington Post.
Dr. Greg Merz is hot on the trail of a killer. He spends most of his workday watching proteins interact with one another, usually eavesdropping on this give-and-take on his computer screen with the help of a cryo-electron microscope. Merz, a 2010 Allegheny College graduate, conducts his observations and research at the University of California […]
Allegheny College has received a grant of $44,549 from the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and supported by the U.S.Department of Education. The grant will allow the college’s award-winning Creek Connections program, an environmental education outreach program that brings hands-on environmental education to […]
President Hilary Link and Becky Dawson, co-director of the Allegheny College Health Agency, discussed the College’s plans to reopen in August.
Allegheny College has been honored with the 2020 Western Pennsylvania Environmental Award, recognizing its 13-year program to achieve carbon neutrality on campus, becoming only the eighth college in the U.S. to realize this goal. The Western Pennsylvania Environmental Awards are presented annually by Dominion Energy and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council to local organizations that demonstrate […]
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