Laura Branby, the Pittsburgh-area educator for Allegheny College’s award-winning Creek Connections watershed education program, has received the 2020 Outstanding Environmental Educator Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators. “Standing with me are many, many educators, formal and informal, and environmental professionals who work alongside me every day. They are the ones who teach me, […]
Allegheny College art professor Byron Rich and area manufacturers are collaborating to make plastic face shields for Meadville Medical Center.
Allegheny College is partnering with regional manufacturers to produce protective face shields to help meet the needs of healthcare facilities responding to COVID-19, including Meadville Medical Center. Byron Rich is an assistant professor of art and director of the Allegheny Lab for Innovation & Creativity. At the suggestion of Allegheny biology professor Catharina Coenen, Rich […]
Since the first grade, Aliza Legg was told to expect to fail. From the moment she was diagnosed with dyslexia, she was told that her goal in life should not be college or a career, but to hope to be able to shop on her own one day. When she reached middle school and her […]
People & Places is published monthly during the academic year by the Office of College Relations. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement. April Thompson, vice president of student life and dean of students, and Ian Binnington, College registrar and dean of curriculum, facilitated a roundtable discussion at […]
From offering advice on social media to holding “online office hours” to assembling a reading list to educate and inform, Allegheny College faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning. Allegheny students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March […]
As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., Allegheny College global health studies and biology professor Becky Dawson has served as an expert source for area media outlets covering the outbreak. Dawson is an expert in epidemiology and global health challenges, researching disease risk factors and patterns of disease in human populations. [one-third […]
Allegheny College biology and global health studies professor Rebecca Dawson shared her insights in a “Coronavirus: Ask the Experts” panel discussion broadcast by Erie News Now (WICU/WSEE) on March 11. Erie News Now has interviewed Dawson frequently about the latest developments related to the COVID-19 coronavirus and its impact. Dawson is an expert in epidemiology and […]
When you enter the new Allegheny Lab for Innovation and Creativity, you walk into a space bristling with cutting-edge technology. In the fabrication lab, there’s a bank of 3D printers, a laser cutter and a three-axis CNC machine. Go a little further and you enter a computer design lab with neatly aligned rows of workstations, […]
Max E. Roha will tell you that, throughout his career, critical thinking played a major role in his success as a research chemist. Look beyond the obvious and consider in detail the underlying assumptions of what is considered to be true, the 1944 Allegheny College graduate advises today’s students. “Pursue goals which are important to […]
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