The bell in Allegheny College’s Bentley Hall rang 13 times at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, to commemorate the 13 American men — including John D. Kelly of Crawford County — who earned the Medal of Honor for their heroic actions in the D-Day invasion during World War II.
Alan Cuevas Villagomez, who graduated from Allegheny in May 2019 with a major in biology and a minor in psychology, is featured in this story.
The tolling of the bells coincided with the National Medal of Honor Museum commemorating today’s 75th Anniversary of D-Day.
Allegheny College received a $144,252 grant from the Mozilla Foundation for the Responsible Computer Science Challenge, a partnership of Omidyar Network, Mozilla, Schmidt Futures, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies. Oliver Bonham-Carter, assistant professor of computer science, will direct the grant project, which aims to integrate ethics and social responsibility into undergraduate computer science courses. “Through this […]
Allegheny College on Saturday, June 1, celebrated six alumni for their service to the college and its students, and for volunteer work they perform in the communities in which they live. The awards were presented by President James H. Mullen, Jr. and Kurt Foriska, a 2001 graduate and president of the college’s Alumni Council, during […]
Allegheny College’s faculty helped Lauren Ottaviani ’18 nurture her knack for learning languages, for Shakespearean studies and for singing. Now they are celebrating Ottaviani’s Fulbright award to teach English in Belgium starting in the spring of 2020. “Lauren will make an ideal Fulbright Scholar. Prodigiously bright, mature and responsible, she graduated summa cum laude from […]
Fifteen Allegheny psychology students participated in the 47th Annual Western Pennsylvania Undergraduate Psychology Conference (WPUPC) held at Chatham University on April 6, 2019. They are (with their faculty advisors listed in parentheses): Austin Shaffer, Jonathan Davidson, Samuel Walgenbach (Lauren Paulson) Gabby Griffin-Maya (Allison Connell Pensky) Elijah Morsha-Taylor (Patricia Rutledge) Liam McKersie, Michelle Mota Paulino, Stephanie […]
Don’t be alarmed, but 43 members of the Allegheny College community were diagnosed with measles between March 12 and April 2. If this were actually the case, there’d likely be a team of investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention swarming the campus. But this was just an epidemiology class exercise developed by […]
Katharine Hubert ’19 discussed “MuSpeak: American Music Language,” one of the two Senior Projects she completed, on NPR’s On Point. Her interview begins at 40:55 in the broadcast.
May’s Career Focus is education, and we interviewed current seniors and alumni to ask how Allegheny has prepared them for this career and their work shaping the future of young minds. Shoshana Robbins ’19 from Deerfield, Illinois Community and Justice Studies Major, Education Studies and Political Science Minors What made you want to go into education, and […]
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