ALERT: Utility/Power Failure on Campus – UPDATE

June 11, 2025 - 11:28 AM

UPDATE: Utility/Power Failure on Campus

Meadville Water Authority is just completing the the main water line repair on the north side of campus and and the water line should be pressurized shortly.

CAUTION FROM THE WATER AUTHORITY: A loss of positive water pressure is a signal of the existence of conditions that could allow contamination to enter the distribution system through back-flow by back‑pressure or back‑siphonage. As a result, there is an increased chance that the water may contain disease-causing organisms.

DO NOT DRINK THE WATER WITHOUT BOILING IT FIRST. Bring all water to a rolling boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using; or use bottled water. You should use boiled or bottled water for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth, and food preparation until further notice. Inadequately treated water may contain disease-causing organisms. These organisms include bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can cause symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea, and associated headaches. These symptoms, however, are not caused only by organisms in drinking water, but also by other factors. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you may want to seek medical advice. Guardians of infants and young children and people at increased risk, such as pregnant women, some of the elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems, should seek advice from their health care advisors about drinking this water. General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1 (800) 426‑4791.

The Water Authority will inform local residents when the water is safe to drink. An updated message Emergency Message will be sent from Public Safety.

Students, faculty and staff should monitor e-mail, the college web site, social and local media for updated information and further updates.
Contact Campus Safety in the event of an emergency: 814-332-3357.

More information on Emergency website

Student Research

Every Alleghenian completes a Senior Project in his/her major field—a significant piece of original work, designed by the student under the guidance of a faculty advisor, that demonstrates to employers and graduate schools the ability to complete a major assignment, to work independently, to analyze and synthesize information, and to write and speak persuasively.

Many biology majors carry out independent research or collaborative research with faculty in addition to the Senior Project.

Each year, seniors present the results of their projects at the department’s annual Senior Project Symposium. In addition, the results of student research projects are regularly presented at professional conferences and published in academic journals.

Some examples of projects and the outcomes:

  • “The role of experience in chemosensory recognition of predators by tadpoles of the American toad, Bufo americanus,” Senior Project, presented at the Animal Behavior Society
  • “The Effect of Carbamate, Larvin, on the Survival and Growth of the Xanthid Mud Crab,” data gathered during off-campus study at Duke University’s Marine Laboratory
  • “Stable replication of HPV-18 and HPV-1a vectors for use in gene therapy,” internship in the Department of Medical Genetics and Biochemistry, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
  • Two students represented the Northeast Chapter of Beta Beta Beta at the national meeting and won the national award.
  • “Age-related changes in the ventilatory response to inspired CO2 in neonatal rats: A possible role for nasal CO2 in SIDS,” joint faculty-student presentation at Society of Neuroscience meeting
  • “Beaver pond wetlands in western Pennsylvania: an experimental analysis of aerial colonization and desiccation resistance after drought,” chapter in Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands of North America: Ecology and Management
  • “Aposematic coloration enhances chemosensory recognition of noxious prey in the garter snake,” published in Animal Behavior
  • “Juvenile hormone in earwigs,” published in Physiological Entomology
  • “The significance of extracellular production and winter photosynthesis to estimates of periphyton production in a woodland stream community,” published in Hydrobiologia
  • “The effect of real and simulated herbivory on the interplant communication of an inducible defense mechanism in Nicotiana sylvestris,” presented at Plant Signaling Conference

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