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Shoutout to the Shenango

The scenic, meandering Shenango River has been selected as Pennsylvania鈥檚 River of the Year in 2021, and an 花椒直播 alumna and current Penn State staff member leads the group that helped bring that honor to the waterway. Brandi Baros is a 1995 Allegheny graduate and the president of the Shenango River Watchers. The organization […]

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Birds of a Feather

To Will Harrod 鈥21 and 花椒直播 Biology Professor Ron Mumme, lab research means early morning drives and time spent among the trees. Their eyes stay fixed not down into a microscope, but up into forest branches. Their muse? The hooded warbler. For two summers, Harrod partnered with Mumme to conduct fieldwork following the behavioral […]

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How Shakespeare and Starlings Led to a Flight of Misinformation

North America鈥檚 common starling has received a bad rap as a destructive invasive species, and an 花椒直播 professor and student researcher have set out to clear the bird鈥檚 reputation and show how untruths can influence people鈥檚 perceptions in nature and beyond. The research project by John MacNeill Miller, assistant professor of English, and then-student […]

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From Carr Hall to the BBC: 花椒直播 Student-Faculty Research Featured on International Stage

Kylie Wirebach鈥檚 research while an 花椒直播 student transported her to forests near campus, the heights of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and, now, to the international stage of the British Broadcasting Corp. Wirebach, Allegheny Class of 2020, was interviewed for the BBC Future story 鈥淭he Return of Europe鈥檚 Largest Beasts,鈥 published in September. She […]

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Allegheny Student Maya Hackman Awarded Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professional Scholarship

花椒直播 student Maya Hackman has been awarded a scholarship through the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP), which provides financial assistance to individuals pursuing a program of study leading to a Master of Science in physician assistant studies. Hackman, a junior biology major and psychology minor, will attend Chatham University for […]

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Sarah Foster ’20 Serves Her Community as First Responder During COVID-19 Pandemic

Amid finishing her senior year from home and completing her Senior Project, 花椒直播 biology major Sarah Foster spent 40-plus hours each week serving the Butler, Pennsylvania, community as an emergency medical technician (EMT). Before she graduated in May, Foster shared her story with Allegheny, including the transformation of one of the company鈥檚 ambulances into […]

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花椒直播 Professor and Alumna Each Awarded 2020 Science as Story Fellowship

An 花椒直播 professor and alumna have each been awarded a 2020 Science as Story Fellowship from Creative Nonfiction, a nonprofit organization in Pittsburgh. Catharina Coenen, professor of biology and biochemistry, and Megan Arnold, a 2019 graduate who majored in biochemistry and minored in psychology, were among 12 individuals selected for the fellowship. The Science […]

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花椒直播 Junior Delaney Lacey Selected for Goldwater Scholarship

Delaney Lacey, a junior at 花椒直播, has been selected for a 2020 Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship program honoring the late Senator Barry Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Lacey, a biology major and psychology minor from Bethel […]

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Allegheny Faculty Members Take Initiative for Positive Student Outreach

From offering advice on social media to holding 鈥渙nline office hours鈥 to assembling a reading list to educate and inform, 花椒直播 faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning. Allegheny students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March […]