People & Places is published monthly during the academic year. It reports on the professional activities of members of the College community and highlights student achievement.
花椒直播 received $100,000 from the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation of The Pittsburgh Foundation for an Integrated Research-Education Grant to support Associate Professor of Chemistry Mark Ams鈥� research project, 鈥淭oward Creating Alien Life: A Genetic Self-Replicating System using Chalcogen Bonds.鈥� The goal of the proposed research is to construct an alternative blueprint for life, one that is fundamentally different from DNA and represents a distinct departure from terrestrial biology. .
As part of a special issue in Southeastern Naturalist, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability Kelly Pearce co-authored four papers on her work with the eastern spotted skunk in Maryland and West Virginia. Not much is known about this elusive mammal in the Appalachians, and these papers cover the historical distribution, habitat and den-site selection, and predation pressures faced by the eastern spotted skunk, all important for the future conservation of this important Carnivora species.
Professor of聽Environmental Science and Sustainability聽Eric Pallant and Assistant Professor Kelly Pearce were invited to speak with engineering graduate students at Effat University, located in Jeddah Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Their virtual presentation, titled “Wind Turbines and the Environment,” covered the impact that wind turbines have on wildlife, particularly birds of prey, such as eagles and raptors, which can be killed by direct strikes with the blades, as well as bats, which have specialized lung systems that cannot withstand the drastic air pressure changes caused by the turbine blades. Mitigation approaches, such as curtailing turbines during migration seasons, and at low wind speeds were discussed. (.)
Assistant Professor of Geology Katie Tamulonis and Assistant Pennsylvania State Geologist and Visiting Instructor of Geology Kristin Carter聽鈥�91 published an article titled 鈥淓vidence of Hydrothermal Alteration in Devonian Shales from the EGSP-2 Core of the Rome Trough, Appalachian Basin, USA鈥� in the journal Environmental Geosciences. Portions of this research were virtually presented to the Geological Society of America, the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists, and Slippery Rock University.
Associate Professor of History Guo Wu was invited by Singapore’s ThinkChina.sg to comment on the recent violence against Asians in America, and his response was translated and appeared on the website under the title “.”
Assistant Professor of Psychology Sarah Stanger and students in her Healthy Families Lab presented research posters in early April at the Society for Research on Child Development biennial (virtual) conference. In the first picture, Maddy McClinchie聽’21 and Professor Stanger present the poster, “Associations between parent and child coping with COVID-19 and child psychopathology.” In the second picture, Sasha Eager听’22, Ella Swan ’23, and Grace Connelly ’23 present the poster, “‘We are being intentionally kind to each other:’ Parent reflections on COVID-19.” Both of these posters showcase research done during the past year on how families are coping with the COVID pandemic.
Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller was named a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the fall of 2021. He will use the fellowship semester to complete his book project On Background: Scenery, Ecology, and the Social Novel, which focuses on the entangled intellectual histories of ecology, economics, and the English novel. A more detailed description of the book project can be found on .
Three Humanities students were accepted to the 29th Penn State Behrend-Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishments Conference on April 24.聽Sydney Emerson ’23 presented “The Dreamers, the Doers and Me: Jim Henson’s Innovative Optimism” and was awarded first place in the panel. Jane Grabowski ’24 presented “How Robin Frohardt Examines the Strangeness of Everyday Life,” and Kimberlyn Rybak ’21 presented “Handspring Puppet Company: How ‘Autistic’ Audiences and Authentic Movement are Shaping the Puppet Theater Industry,” which was awarded second place in the panel. The students conducted their research in THTR 290: Puppetry in Performance, offered during Module I of Spring 2021.
Logan Chisholm聽’21 and Mary Allen ’22, supervised by Professor Matt Carter (Geology and Energy and Society), participated in the 29th Penn State Behrend-Sigma Xi Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishments Conference on Saturday, April 24. They presented an “Economic and Environmental Analysis of High Pressure Sodium to Light-Emitting Diode Streetlight Conversion in Meadville, PA” that was conducted in the spring of 2020 in collaboration with the City of Meadville. This project was part of a capstone course, ENERG 485: Applied Energy Analysis, for the Energy and Society minor. Their presentation was awarded second place in the Environmental Science Session. The City of Meadville will take on 花椒直播 student interns this upcoming fall semester to help map out and plan a streetlight conversion to LEDs.
Andrea Jonsson聽’21, a Biology major and a Global Health Studies minor, presented a poster abstract titled 鈥淕lucocorticoid Mediated Transcriptional Activity in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells Lacking the Glucocorticoid Receptor鈥� at the Endocrine Society鈥檚 national conference ENDO2021, which took place virtually from March 20 to 23, 2021. This abstract was co-authored by Lydia Ennis 鈥�21, a Biology major and a Chinese minor, Professor Mahita Kadmiel from the Biology Department, and the group鈥檚 collaborator from the National Institutes of Health. Jonsson and co-authors’ research presented at this conference investigates the molecular pathways modulated by stress hormones in cells derived from the human cornea. Photographed is Jonsson with her poster on the ENDO2021 Virtual Poster Booth.
Ethan Woodfill听’22, editor-in-chief of The Campus, Allegheny’s student-run newspaper, was recently recognized with an honorable mention award in the annual contest sponsored by the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association Foundation, the state’s leading training and development resource for the press. Woodfill’s winning submission consisted of three columns written during spring semester 2020: “,” “,” and “.” Woodfill is currently completing his first year as The Campus‘ editor-in-chief and has been elected by staff members to serve as one of two co-editors-in-chief next year.