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Ahoy, Gators! First-Year Allegheny Students Sail Through Time

by Richard Stanley September 20th 2018

On a bright and balmy September afternoon, Allegheny College Professors Casey Bradshaw-Wilson and Richard Bowden moved their classrooms onto the rolling deck of a 19th-century fishing schooner and skimmed through the ripples of a gently turbulent Lake Erie off Presque Isle — much to the delight of their 30 first-year seminar students and a handful

Allegheny to Host Public Lecture Series on Energy and Society

by Richard Stanley September 17th 2018

Allegheny College will host a series of three public lectures this fall focused on U.S. energy from a variety of perspectives, including energy policy, the relationship between freshwater and energy resources, and environmental injustices associated with energy production and distribution. The first lecture, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Tippie Alumni

Allegheny Senior Jonah Raether Wins Fellowship to Study at Clark University

by Emma Highland '19 April 26th 2018

Allegheny College senior Jonah Raether has been awarded the Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Fellowship to fully fund his Master of Health Science degree in community and global health at Clark University in Massachusetts. Graduating from Allegheny with majors in environmental studies and global health studies, Raether will begin the highly competitive graduate program

Allegheny Graduating Senior Will Pursue Environmental Research in the Rocky Mountains

by Richard Stanley April 25th 2018

During the summer of 2018, Allegheny College graduating senior Leah Franzluebbers will be working among the high peaks in the Mountain West. She is looking ahead to her summer job as a research assistant at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. This will be Franzluebbers’ second summer in Colorado working at the world-renowned high

Allegheny Senior Owen Ludwig Receives Davey Foundation Arbor Grant Award

by Emma Highland '19 February 13th 2018

Allegheny College senior Owen Ludwig is one of this year’s recipients of the national Davey Foundation Arbor Grant Award, given annually to about 50 students who focus on forestry, agriculture, or another green industry. Ludwig is an environmental science major with a geology minor, and the $1,000 grant will support his work in green industries.

Wissinger, Balik Present at Entomological Society of America Meetings

by Josh Tysiachney January 5th 2018

Professor of Environmental Science and Biology Scott Wissinger and Jared Balik ’16 presented an invited paper in the symposium Impacts of Climate Change on “Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Invertebrates: Research from Earth’s Coldest and Most Rapidly Changing Environments” at the Entomological Society of America meetings in November 2017. The paper was titled “Elevational range shifts in alpine

Environmental Science Major Natalie DeSantis Receives Conference Scholarship

by Josh Tysiachney January 5th 2018

Natalie DeSantis ’20, an environmental science major, received a scholarship from the Georgia-based organization One Hundred Miles to attend its “Coastal Conservation in Action Choosing to Lead” conference on January 13–14, 2018, in Jekyll Island, Georgia. Allegheny graduate Megan Derosiers ’98 is the executive director of One Hundred Miles.

Creek Connections Uses Grant to Purchase New Stream-Testing Kits

by Richard Stanley December 14th 2017

The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has awarded Allegheny College a grant of $1,500 in support of its Creek Connections program for pH test kits to continue measuring water quality in local watersheds. K-12 students involved with Creek Connections use the pH kits to test how acidic or basic the water is as part of their overall

Two Allegheny College Students Awarded NOAA Hollings Scholarships

by Josh Tysiachney November 9th 2017

Allegheny College juniors Megan Hazlett and Allyson Wood have been awarded Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarships by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The competitive scholarships include two years of tuition support and paid 10-week summer internships to conduct research, resource management or education projects while working with a NOAA mentor. Hazlett and Wood are

Bowden Coauthors Paper Examining DIRT

by Erica Erwin November 3rd 2017

Richard Bowden, Professor of Environmental Science, coauthored the invited paper “The Detrital Input and Removal Treatment (DIRT) Network,” published in Elsevier’s online peer-reviewed reference database in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. The work describes an international network (DIRT) that assesses how rates and sources of plant litter inputs influence accumulations or losses of organic matter

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