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Meet Doctor Sparks, an Allegheny Graduate Who Uses Stories to Teach Science to Kids

Karl Smith has a doctorate in biophysics from the University of Rochester. He also worked at Amazon as a software engineer trying to make the Alexa voice assistant smarter. But now Smith is putting his talents to better use, he says, as a children’s science storyteller. He describes his new calling as “Mister Rogers meets […]

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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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A Gator’s View From Down Under

Editor’s Note: Allegheny College junior Joseph Merante is spending the spring 2019 semester at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. He shared his thoughts on life there so far: The first thing that hits you when you step out of the airplane on the eastern edge of the Australian continent is the heat. My experience […]

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Allegheny Alumna Selected for National 2024-2025 Aspiring Academics Program Through The American Association Of Colleges Of Pharmacy

Lauren Isaacs ’22 never imagined pursuing pharmacy when she entered as a first-year at Allegheny College. Then, she was introduced to the field through an Introductory Chemistry course, and now she attends the Jefferson College of Pharmacy at Thomas Jefferson University. “I will always be grateful to Allegheny for helping me get to where I […]

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Allegheny Graduate Develops Youth Programming at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Among the dark green leaves at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (Phipps), you can see Jennifer Torrance Stuckey ’16 educating young minds about nature and climate. As Youth Climate Advocacy Committee (YCAC) Coordinator, she takes great delight in shaping the next generation of changemakers. “At Allegheny, I managed our two aquaponics systems in Carr […]