Matthew Zaborowski ’17 and Assistant Professor of Global Health Studies and Biology Becky Dawson ’00 , presented a poster entitled “Investigating the Root Cause: Oral Health Emergency Department Admissions” at the National Association of County and City Health Officials Annual Meeting in July. Zaborowski’s poster was one of two completed by a student to be accepted
Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Global Health Studies Lee Coates recently served as a facilitator for a Council on Undergraduate Research workshop on “Beginning a Research Program in the Natural Sciences” held in Washington, D.C. Coates also presented a talk titled “10 Habits of Highly Effective Researchers.”
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Assistant Professor of Global Health Studies Amelia Darrouzet-Nardi’s article, “Non-violent civil insecurity is negatively associated with subsequent height-for-age in children under age 5 years born between 1998 and 2014 in rural areas of Africa” was accepted for publication in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a peer-reviewed scientific journal which was rated as one of
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Assistant Professor of Global Health Studies and Biology Becky Dawson ’00, along with Erica Bryson ’15, Elizabeth Schafer ’17, Daniel Favaro ’17 and Austin Cosgrove ’15 published a paper titled “Is Perception Reality? Identifying Community Health Needs When Perceptions of Health Do Not Align with Public Health and Clinical Data” in the Journal of Community
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Thais Rafael Guimaraes (international student at Allegheny 2015-16) and Assistant Professor of Global Health Studies and Biology Becky Dawson (’00) published a paper titled “Seasonality of ER Admissions in northwestern Pennsylvania: A cross-sectional study” in the Open Journal of Emergency Medicine in June 2016. The article can be read online at https://www.scirp.org/Journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=67668.
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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
Assistant Professor of Global Health Studies Amelia Darrouzet-Nardi published a paper, “Child dietary quality in rural Nepal: Effectiveness of a community-level development intervention,” in the May 2016 issue of the journal Food Policy.
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March 16, 2016 – Allegheny College junior Angelina Winbush of Pittsburgh has been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP) internship for summer 2016. The award will allow Winbush, a global health studies major and biology minor, to spend 10 weeks doing full-time research in the lab of an HHMI
Dec. 7, 2015 – The Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, an organization that is part of the Society for Neuroscience, has honored Allegheny College professor E. Lee Coates with its Career Achievement Award. The presentation took place in Chicago during the group’s annual meeting in October. Two Allegheny alumnae, Amy Jo Stavnezer, the academic organization’s incoming
