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Allegheny Honors Six Alumni for Service to the College and Their Communities

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 […]

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Allegheny Alumna From Pittsburgh Area Receives Fulbright Award

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 […]

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People & Places: May 2019

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 […]

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Allegheny College Students Learn From Measles Outbreak Simulation

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 […]

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Allegheny Graduate Featured on NPR Program’s Senior Thesis Showcase

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.

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Career Focus: Education

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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Allegheny Alumni Make Cross-Cultural Connections through Education

Allegheny College alumni Jim Miller ’99 and Sabina Sully ’05 were each awarded a 2018–19 Fulbright Teachers for Global Classrooms Program fellowship, which allowed them to travel to Africa to teach and observe. Only 74 teachers across the U.S. were chosen for this highly competitive program. “Each Fulbright fellow develops a guiding question that helps […]

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Allegheny College Graduate Receives Fulbright Award

Allegheny College graduate Emily Smith will travel to Brazil in February 2020 after receiving a Fulbright award to serve as an English teaching assistant at a Brazilian university. “I will be teaching English classes in various subjects, and I will be spending another 20 hours per week developing and implementing a project of my choice […]

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Commencement Ceremony at Allegheny College Celebrates 388 Graduates, Three Distinguished Leaders

Allegheny College today honored 388 graduates and presented honorary degrees to three distinguished scholars at Commencement ceremonies held on Bicentennial Plaza in the shadow of historic Bentley Hall on a spectacular spring afternoon. Honorary doctorates of humane letters were conferred on the Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, a 1972 Allegheny graduate; Dr. David Warren, president of […]

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From Italy To Meadville, New Allegheny College President Hilary Link Says Global Mindset Will Remain

Pittsburgh NPR affiliate WESA featured an interview with Allegheny College President-elect Hilary Link on the station’s daily news show, “The Confluence.”