Articles: Tag: Research/Faculty

Allegheny College Professor’s First Collection of Poetry Honored with Multiple Awards

by Katheryn Frazier September 22nd 2022

Allegheny College Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies M. Soledad Caballero’s first collection of poetry, I Was A Bell, has received several prestigious awards, including the:  2022 Outstanding Book from the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner from the Independent Book Publishers Association 2022 Juan Felipe

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Allegheny College Professor Caryl Waggett To Receive Prestigious Riegelman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Public Health Education

by Allegheny College News Center August 17th 2022

Allegheny College Professor of Global Health Studies Caryl Waggett has been named the recipient of the 2022 Riegelman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Public Health Education from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). The award recognizes faculty who have made exemplary efforts to start or sustain an undergraduate program, collaborated with

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Allegheny College Students and Faculty Member Receive Prestigious Statewide Honor as Campus Sustainability Champions

by Allegheny College News Center May 2nd 2022

The Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium has honored Allegheny College students Ashlynn Peachey and Molly Tarvin and Environmental Science & Sustainability Professor Eric Pallant as 2022 Campus Sustainability Champions. The program recognizes students, faculty, administrators and staff, as well as student and non-student organizations, of Pennsylvania colleges and universities who have made meaningful contributions toward environmental

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Sen. Brooks, Allegheny College and East Stroudsburg University Join Forces to Take on Tickborne Diseases through Local Tick Mitigation Study

by Allegheny College News Center April 26th 2022

As the state with the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the nation, Sen. Michele Brooks has been committed to making inroads as Pennsylvania combats a surging tick population and works to increase awareness of testing, diagnosis and treatment of tickborne diseases. As infection rates reach crisis levels, Brooks has been consulting and collaborating

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The Dirt on Allegheny College’s DIRT Experiment

by Allegheny College News Center April 19th 2022

Walking through Bousson Experimental Forest reveals towering trees, small streams, occasional glimpses of white-tail deer, and frequent cries of songbirds. Yet we usually give little thought to what lies underfoot. To most, it’s just dirt. But forest soils are critically important in climate change investigations. Forests absorb enormous amounts of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide,

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Allegheny College to Host Fifth World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities

by Allegheny College News Center April 4th 2022

Allegheny College, one of the nation’s oldest and most innovative four-year colleges where multidisciplinary learning breaks the conventional mold, will host the Fifth World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2022), June 16–17, 2022. This year’s symposium focuses on “Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future” and will contribute to development of this fast-growing field.

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Allegheny College Is a Top Producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars

by Allegheny College News Center March 2nd 2022

Allegheny College, one of the nation’s oldest and most innovative four-year colleges where multidisciplinary learning breaks the conventional mold, is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Scholars. Each year the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces

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Allegheny College Biology Professor Elected 2021 Honorary Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

by Katheryn Frazier February 11th 2022

Allegheny College Professor of Biology Ron Mumme has been named a 2021 Honorary Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. Mumme is one of five fellows elected from undergraduate institutions out of 141 total fellows in the biological sciences. Honored

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Student-Faculty Research Evaluates Sustainable Impact of International Hydroelectric Project

by Katheryn Frazier January 31st 2022

Dams may provide an inexpensive source of renewable energy, but their construction comes at a cost: disrupting natural habitats, releasing greenhouse gases, and displacing communities. Allegheny College students took an active role in the international community by assessing a hydroelectric dam’s potential impact in the Republic of Georgia.  For over two years, stakeholders in the

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A Refill Revolution

by Katheryn Frazier December 9th 2021

Professor Beth Choate challenged her Allegheny College students to tackle the global issue of plastic waste at a local level. Knowing that 37 million tons of plastic waste are produced annually in the U.S., Choate encouraged students in her Research Methods class to investigate how often — and why — Allegheny students turned to single-use water bottles instead

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