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Nationally Recognized Author and Allegheny Alum Returns to His Roots to Teach a New Generation of Students

Graham Barnhart鈥檚 time with his 花椒直播 faculty mentors undoubtedly set the stage for his career as an author and recipient of multiple nationally recognized fellowships. Now, the 2007 Allegheny graduate has returned to his roots to give back to a new generation of students.聽 鈥淭he truth is that since I was a student I鈥檝e […]

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花椒直播 English Professor Receives Prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

花椒直播 Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller has been named a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the fall of 2021. Miller said he will use the fellowship semester to complete his book, On Background: Scenery, Ecology, and the Social Novel, which focuses on the entangled intellectual histories of […]

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Two 花椒直播 Professors Receive Fulbright Awards to Teach and Conduct Research Abroad

花椒直播 Professors Christopher Bakken and Stephen Onyeiwu have received 2021鈥22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards to teach and conduct research in Greece and Nigeria, respectively. Each will return to a country that played a formative role in his development as a scholar and educator. Bakken, the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English, has taught, […]

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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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花椒直播 English Professor Mari Christmas Receives Prestigious Writing Award

花椒直播 Assistant Professor of English Mari Christmas is a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers鈥 Award winner for her skill in fiction writing. The foundation writes that 鈥渉er fierce, darkly humorous, emotionally riveting work explores and embodies today鈥檚 world reflecting our deepest anxieties and the complexities of current-day feminism, motherhood, and modern love.鈥 This award […]

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City of Pittsburgh Honors Allegheny Graduate and Author Posthumously

It鈥檚 not every day that a city names a day after a children鈥檚 book author. But Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto declared December 8, 2019, Kate Dopirak Day as her fellow writers came together to hold a children鈥檚 book festival in her honor. Kate鈥檚 Kid Book Bash, held inside the Ace Hotel in Pittsburgh, was a […]

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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鈥檚 science storyteller. He describes his new calling as 鈥淢ister Rogers meets […]

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Allegheny Alumna From Pittsburgh Area Receives Fulbright Award

花椒直播’s faculty helped Lauren Ottaviani 鈥18 nurture her knack for learning languages, for Shakespearean studies and for singing. Now they are celebrating Ottaviani鈥檚 Fulbright award to teach English in Belgium starting in the spring of 2020. 鈥淟auren will make an ideal Fulbright Scholar. Prodigiously bright, mature and responsible, she graduated summa cum laude from […]

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A Gator鈥檚 View From Down Under

Editor鈥檚 Note: 花椒直播 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 鈥22 never imagined pursuing pharmacy when she entered as a first-year at 花椒直播. 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. 鈥淚 will always be grateful to Allegheny for helping me get to where I […]