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VITA program serves Meadville area with free tax filing

The Meadville Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program employs 30 Allegheny students under the training and supervision of Professor Stephanie Martin. Collectively, they file 1,000 tax returns — federal, state and local — free of charge to area residents.

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What Buhari has to do to take Nigeria’s economy to the next level

Stephen Onyeiwu, professor and chair of Allegheny’s Economics Department, authored this article.

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Allegheny Coach Relishes Chance to Save a Life

Allegheny College Head Volleyball Coach Kelly Barzak is “super excited” about being admitted to West Penn Hospital in Pittsburgh in April. She has an opportunity to save someone’s life — and she’s all in. “Not a lot of people actually get the opportunity to save someone’s life or give them a chance to survive. I’m […]

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Allegheny Students Attend Annual “Ready to Run” Campaign Training Event

Allegheny College students Veronica Blair, Emma Godel and Aubrey Hall participated in Ready to Run Pittsburgh, a nonpartisan training program to encourage women to seek government leadership positions, at Chatham University in February. Hall, at the request of the Office of College Relations, provided the following personal reflection on the experience: It was 6 o’clock in […]

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Trump just declared ISIS’s caliphate 100% defeated. But ISIS still remains.

Allegheny political science professor Shanna Kirschner, an expert on Syria, was interviewed for this article.

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People & Places: February 2019

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Sustainability Casey Bradshaw-Wilson, along with colleagues, published a paper which will appear in the April 2019 edition in the journal American Midland Naturalist. The article title, “Documentation of Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) in the Diet of Round Gobies (Neogobius melanostomus) within the French Creek Watershed, Pennsylvania,” highlights her ongoing research […]

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Classroom Collaboration Sets the Tone for the Meadiaville Listening Project

What started as an idea for a communication arts class several years ago has turned into a meaningful and engaging project for dozens of Allegheny students and residents of Meadville. It has even inspired one former student to embark on a self-made career following his graduation. The Meadiaville Listening Project is the creation of Associate […]

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Two Allegheny Students Spending Spring Semester as Fellows in Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Though connected through the Allegheny College Political Science Department, junior Jesse Tomkiewicz and senior Casey McDaniel have different goals, aspirations and interests. While Tomkiewicz is interested primarily in labor law, McDaniel considers himself more of a generalist, with interests divided relatively equally among multiple policy areas. This semester, the students’ respective interests have led them […]

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Allegheny’s Marisol Santa Cruz Wins Gilman Award to Study in India

Allegheny College junior Marisol Santa Cruz has been awarded a $4,000 Gilman International Scholarship in order to help defray the costs of her participation in an Experiential Learning Seminar trip to India in May 2019. “After conducting extensive archival research in the summer of 2018 under the supervision of Professor Ishita Sinha Roy, I was […]

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Allegheny College orders 300-plus pizzas for students

More than 300 pizzas were delivered to student residences on Jan. 30 to provide a fun indoor event in the midst of extreme cold and wind-chill factors outside. ⁣