Articles: by Heather Grubbs

Neuherz, Marks Receive Awards at Collegiate Personal Financial Planning Competition

Emily Neuherz ’16 and Alex Marks ’16 received awards for their entries in the CFA Society of Pittsburgh’s 2015-2016 Collegiate Personal Financial Planning Competition. With students from nine colleges competing, Emily placed 8th (in the top 5 percent of entries), winning a $250 cash prize, and Alex received a Certificate of Achievement. To enter the

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Faculty Member/Student Present at Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education

Becky Dawson ’00, assistant professor of global health studies and biology, and Erica Bryson ’15 presented at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Public Health Education on March 31. Their presentation, “Partnering to Complete the Affordable Care Act’s Mandated Community Health Needs Assessment,” focused on the multi-year community-based research project that has been

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Faculty/Student Present at American Association of Geographers Meeting

Assistant Professors of Environmental Science Benjamin Haywood and Brittany Davis, along with Jessica Schombert ’16, presented research at the annual American Association of Geographers meeting in San Francisco. Professor Davis served as a discussant on a panel about fieldwork in political ecology and presented research on sustainability and eco-labeling. Professor Haywood presented research on avian

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Students/Faculty Member Publish Computer Science Work

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Janyl Jumadinova, Hanzhong Zheng ’17, and Almog Boanos ’17 have published their work “OWLS: Observational Wireless Life-enhancing System” in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems as a short paper and in the Proceedings of the Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems Workshop as a long

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Student/Faculty Member Present Papers at Meeting of Association for Asian American Studies

Assistant Professor of English Aline Lo and Nia Shuler ’18 presented papers at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies in Miami. Both their presentations were on the work accomplished last summer through their participation in Allegheny’s grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of collaborative undergraduate research in the

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