Faculty and Staff Present Work at Council on Undergraduate Research Conference

Several Allegheny faculty and staff recently presented at the Council on Undergraduate Research biennial conference held in Washington, D.C. Associate Professor of English Soledad Caballero and Professor of Art Amelia Carr presented a panel on “Finding Connections: Faculty and Undergraduate Collaborative Research in the Humanities,” and Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Global Health Studies Lee Coates, Associate Professor of Psychology Aimee Knupsky, and Soledad Caballero presented the session “Scaffolding Experiences that Prepare Students for a Required Senior Research Project: Case Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences.” In addition, Reference Librarian Cynthia Burton exhibited a poster titled “Fostering a Community of Scholarship in Humanities Undergraduate Research: A Modest Exercise.” Participation in this conference was funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Undergraduate Research in the Humanities and the Cathy Forsyth McKeever ’63 Faculty Support Fund.