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Allegheny Professor Receives Grant to Help With Sustainable Community-Based Forestry Project in Africa

by Richard Stanley October 5th 2018

Dr. Nicole Gross-Camp, a visiting assistant professor of environmental science and sustainability at Allegheny College, has received a grant from the United Kingdom’s Darwin Initiative in conjunction with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland to make forest management sustainable in Tanzania. The $469,000 grant will support the project participants over the course of three

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 Professors Receive Grant to Integrate the Humanities and Sciences

by Richard Stanley April 24th 2018

Two Allegheny College professors have been awarded $35,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to plan for interdisciplinary partnerships between the natural sciences and the humanities and to extend the impact of the humanities both in and out of the classroom. Associate Professor of English M. Soledad Caballero, project director, and Associate Professor

Political Science Professor Shannan Mattiace Receives Fulbright Award

by Richard Stanley January 29th 2018

Shannan Mattiace, professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Allegheny College, has received a 2018–19 Fulbright Award to teach and conduct research in the South American nation of Chile. Mattiace said she plans to live in Chile for five months beginning in February 2019. “It has been my dream for decades to receive

Allegheny Professor Shares His Fulbright Experience

by Richard Stanley September 11th 2017

Eric Pallant photographed his share of sheep, rustic stonewalls, and vintage waterwheels during the spring 2017 semester which he spent in the United Kingdom as part of the Fulbright educational exchange program. Pallant, the Christine Scott Nelson Professor of Environmental Sustainability and chair of the Department of Environmental Science at Allegheny College, also taught students

Allegheny College Receives Gift to Endow Political Science Chair

by Richard Stanley June 23rd 2016

June 23, 2016 – As part of its ongoing comprehensive fundraising campaign, Allegheny College has received a $1.5 million gift that will endow a professorship in its political science department. The Robert G. Seddig Chair in Law and Policy has been established by the estate of Robert Bruce Dotson in honor of his daughter Betsy

Bakken To Publish Third Book of Poems

by Kathleen Roos March 4th 2015

Professor of English Christopher Bakken’s third book of poems, Eternity & Oranges, will be published in the Pitt Poetry Series in early 2016. Poems from this manuscript have appeared recently or are forthcoming in places including New England Review, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, and The Cincinnati Review.

Carl Olson’s Latest Book Published by Oxford University Press

by Kathleen Roos March 4th 2015

Professor of Religious Studies Carl Olson’s latest book, Indian Asceticism: Power, Violence, and Play, has been published by Oxford University Press. The book attempts to examine the interrelationship in Indian discourse and narrative of asceticism, power, violence, and play. Professor Olson’s essay “Vivekananda and Ramakrsna Face to Face: An Essay on the Alterity of a

Riess Publishes Translation of Short Story Anthology

by Kathleen Roos March 4th 2015

Cubanabooks has published a translation by Associate Professor of Modern and Classical Languages Barbara Riess of an anthology of María Elena Llana’s short stories, Domicilio Habanero, or An Address in Havana. A bilingual collection, An Address in Havana highlights Llana’s most critically successful stories, a mixture of fantasy and dark humor. Llana’s short stories contain

Clark Is Appointed to Editorial Board of “Behavior Analysis”

by Kathleen Roos March 4th 2015

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Rod Clark has recently been appointed to the editorial board of the APA journal Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice.

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