Patricia Rutledge, professor of psychology, recently published “Problematic drinking among postgraduate students: Binge drinking, prepartying, and mixing alcohol with energy drinks.” This article was an invited submission to a special issue of the journal Substance Use & Misuse. Rutledge’s coauthors were Jessica Bestrashniy of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at St. Olaf
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Associate Professor of Spanish Barbara Riess’ book “An Address in Havana/Domicilio habanero” ( won the prize for Best Work of Fiction in Translation (Spanish to English) at the 2016 International Latino Book Awards Ceremony in California on Sept. 8. A review of the book appeared in the latest edition of Letras Femeninas, the journal of
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Who were the first students at Allegheny College, and what became of them? Local lawyer and genealogist William B. Moore has published through the college “Students and Graduates of Alleghany College During Timothy Alden’s Tenure.” The 51 page essay, edited by College Historian Jonathan Helmreich, is available through the college bookstore.
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A paper by mathematics Professor Michael Barry, “Generators for Decompositions of Tensor Products of Modules Associated with Standard Jordan Partitions,” was recently accepted for publication by the journal Communications in Algebra.
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Chaplain Jane Ellen Nickell has given talks for several church groups about her book “We Shall Not Be Moved: Methodists Discuss Race, Gender, and Homosexuality.” In April, she spoke with two different groups at the Wesley Foundation at the University of Illinois, and in July presented a workshop at the Metropolitan Community Churches General Conference
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Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an essay in the online literary review The Millions about the treatment of birds in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The essay, entitled “Is It Really So Wrong To Kill a Mockingbird?”, can be found here .
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Assistant Professor of Economics Hyun Woong Park presented a paper, “Technical Change and the Rate of Profit in a Long-run Model of Price of Production,” in August at the summer conference 2016 of the Korean Association of Political Economy.
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Allegheny Athletics
October 4th 2016
Allegheny College inducted six alumni into its Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, Oct. 1, during the College’s Homecoming Weekend. In a ceremony at Schultz Hall, Rebecca Smullin Dawson ’00 (swimming), Nick Catanzarite ’03 (basketball), Jane Och Sharpless ’03 (soccer), Liz Orr Sowa ’03 (soccer), Ben Rathfon ’05 (golf), and Giannina Coccaro Sardis ’06 (softball)
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There’s nothing more refreshing than the smell of fresh raspberries on a crisp, sunny, early-fall morning on a farm, except maybe eating those raspberries later in the day after a morning of hard work clearing brush and picking fruit. That’s exactly what eight Allegheny College students did on September 24 during a Service Saturday to help refresh the
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