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Josh Tysiachney
January 15th 2019
The Allegheny College Board of Trustees has unanimously elected Hilary L. Link, dean of Temple University Rome, as Allegheny’s 22nd president. Link will assume the presidency on July 1, 2019. The board’s vote followed the unanimous recommendation of Link by the Presidential Search Committee, which conducted a national search for a successor to James H.
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Josh Tysiachney
December 13th 2018
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Josh Tysiachney
December 11th 2018
Associate Professor of Biology Tricia Humphreys and colleagues published a paper in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, titled “Multiple Class I and Class II Haemophilus ducreyi Strains Cause Cutaneous Ulcers in Children on an Endemic Island.” They found that the composition of bacterial strains found on Lihir Island in Papua New Guinea is not affected by
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Josh Tysiachney
November 28th 2018
Dale Giovengo’s career as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Department of State has spanned posts in France, Albania, Kuwait, Pakistan, Switzerland, Iraq and, now, Allegheny College. Giovengo is serving as a Visiting Diplomat in the Allegheny Gateway during the 2018–19 academic year. Visiting Diplomats are career foreign service officers and specialists located throughout
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Josh Tysiachney
November 15th 2018
Allegheny College has been recognized in a new national ranking of “innovative colleges and universities that may not get the limelight, but deserve to be household names.” The list of “50 Underrated Colleges Doing Great Things” was published by College Consensus, a college ratings website that aggregates publisher rankings and student reviews. According to College
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John Arthur Hutchison
November 12th 2018
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Josh Tysiachney
November 9th 2018
Former Allegheny students Mark Kirk ’11, Kirsten Ressell ’14, and Anna Rosswog ’17, and Scott Wissinger, professor of environmental science and biology, recently published the paper “Evaluating Trade‐Offs Between Invasion and Isolation for Native Brook Trout in Pennsylvania Streams” in Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. The paper combines data from multiple senior projects to
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Josh Tysiachney
October 15th 2018
Allegheny College and community volunteers joined forces to work on more than 100 service projects in Meadville and Crawford County during the 25th annual Make a Difference Day on Saturday. The event is coordinated by the United Way of Western Crawford County and sponsored by the City of Meadville, Meadville Medical Center, The Meadville Tribune,
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Josh Tysiachney
October 15th 2018
Nicole Gross-Camp, visiting assistant professor of environmental science, has received a Darwin Initiative grant in conjunction with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The £357,322 ($469,172) grant will support Gross-Camp and partners over the course of three years on their research project entitled “Realising sustainable, profitable and equitable community-based forest management in Tanzania” (ReSPECT). Gross-Camp’s portion
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Emily Rathbun '22
September 19th 2018