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 […]
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 […]
花椒直播 graduate Manuella Mwihemuka personifies resilience. Born in Rwanda, Mwihemuka survived her home country鈥檚 horrific genocide in 1994 and left Africa at age 13. She first enrolled as an 花椒直播 student in fall 2007. Her Allegheny journey would culminate, some 13 years later, in her graduation with the Class of 2020 鈥� and […]
Ever since his childhood growing up near Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, James Scarborough has had a keen interest in the nighttime sky and often considers what it would be like to explore those shiny points of light that he gazes at in wonder. Scarborough brought his love of the stars to 花椒直播, where he is […]
花椒直播 has received a two-year, $100,000 grant to help train Allegheny students in laboratory research that will explore whether a minimal form of life can be created beyond the confines of DNA, the central building block for all life on Earth. Funding for the research project, titled 鈥淭oward Creating Alien Life: A Genetic Self-Replicating […]
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 […]
For the second year in a row, Alexander Yarkosky, a senior from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, has won honors in the statewide competition for redrawing election district lines with the goal of making for fairer elections in the commonwealth. In the most recent competition, Yarkosky placed third, and in 2019 he was awarded honorable mention for his […]
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 […]
The Karl W. Weiss 鈥�87 Faculty Lecture series, featuring six talks beginning on Wednesday, October 7, will be hosted virtually this academic year, according to 花椒直播鈥檚 Academic Support Committee. The Faculty Lecture Series will be presented on a live Zoom webinar with moderated question-and-answer sessions. All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend, […]
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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