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Allegheny College to Chronicle the Era of COVID-19 and Protests About Social (In)Justice

Allegheny College Archivist and alumna Ruth Andel ’85 and Digital Resources Librarian Beau Smith have set out on a project that will chronicle the tumultuous days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement to bring social justice and equality to the nation during the spring and summer of 2020. In May, the project team sent […]

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Allegheny’s Kirsten Peterson Receives Award for Pre-Professional Studies Guidance

Kirsten Peterson, a 1978 Allegheny College graduate and a member of the Gateway Pre-Professional Studies staff, received the Buck Hill ’68 Award from the Northeast Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NEAAHP) during its June 2020 annual meeting, which was held online. Peterson was honored for her outstanding service to NEAAHP and the National […]

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Allegheny Alumnus Fields Jackson, Jr. to Speak on Diversity in the World of Commerce

Allegheny College’s Bruce R. Thompson Center for Business and Economics (CBE) will welcome Fields Jackson, Jr. ’80, chief executive officer of Racing Toward Diversity magazine, to address students in an online forum at 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, September 8.Β Jackson will present his talk, β€œMaking the Business Case for Diversity,” via Zoom. β€œThis year, the Center […]

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Varied Interests Make Allegheny College a Good Fit for First-Year Student

She’s an avid gardener and spends her summers working in a plant nursery. She earned her Girl Scouts Gold Award in 2019 and is still involved in scouting. She plays the violin. As a junior at Bethel Park High School, her weighted GPA was 4.438. Her academic interests are in political science and environmental science. […]

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Allegheny Senior Makes the Most of Her Final Year on Campus

It wasn’t quite the senior year that Kyra Nielsen anticipated, but she is still happy to be among classmates, faculty and familiar surroundings at Allegheny College as she completes her undergraduate education. Nielsen, a psychology major and German minor from Pulaski, New York, will graduate in May 2021. She said she is enthusiastic about her […]

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Allegheny College Among Inaugural Members of Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance

Allegheny College President Hilary L. Link announced today that Allegheny College is among 51 colleges and universities that have joined to form the Liberal Arts Colleges Racial Equity Leadership Alliance, an initiative launched by the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center. β€œWe are very proud to be an inaugural member of the Liberal […]

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People & Places: February 2021

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. Michael Michaelides, assistant professor in economics, recently had published an article in the scholarly journal Finance Research Letters. Titled “Large Sample Size Bias […]

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Allegheny College Designated Voter Friendly Campus Through National Nonpartisan Initiative

Allegheny College has been designated as a Voter Friendly Campus through an initiative led by two national nonpartisan organizations β€” the Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The initiative held participating institutions accountable for planning and implementing practices that encouraged their students to register and vote […]

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Alumni Connection Provides Allegheny Students With Financial Services Career Opportunities

As 2020 drew to a close, Annemarie Murphy, a 1991 Allegheny College graduate, knew she needed some versatile and talented student interns to help handle increased loan activity at First Bank of the Lake, where she is the executive vice president and president of Small Business Administration lending. She reached out to Jim Fitch, Allegheny’s […]

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Allegheny College Announces Plans for Annual Gator Give Day on April 22

The seventh annual Gator Give Day is scheduled for Thursday, April 22, this year as Allegheny alumni and friends from around the world are encouraged to come together to celebrate the College’s success, show support for the institution, and join in a day of camaraderie with classmates. The fundraising event, which goes until midnight (EDT), […]