ALERT: Utility/Power Failure on Campus – UPDATE

June 11, 2025 - 11:28 AM

UPDATE: Utility/Power Failure on Campus

Meadville Water Authority is just completing the the main water line repair on the north side of campus and and the water line should be pressurized shortly.

CAUTION FROM THE WATER AUTHORITY: A loss of positive water pressure is a signal of the existence of conditions that could allow contamination to enter the distribution system through back-flow by back‑pressure or back‑siphonage. As a result, there is an increased chance that the water may contain disease-causing organisms.

DO NOT DRINK THE WATER WITHOUT BOILING IT FIRST. Bring all water to a rolling boil, let it boil for one minute, and let it cool before using; or use bottled water. You should use boiled or bottled water for drinking, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth, and food preparation until further notice. Inadequately treated water may contain disease-causing organisms. These organisms include bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which can cause symptoms such as nausea, cramps, diarrhea, and associated headaches. These symptoms, however, are not caused only by organisms in drinking water, but also by other factors. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you may want to seek medical advice. Guardians of infants and young children and people at increased risk, such as pregnant women, some of the elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems, should seek advice from their health care advisors about drinking this water. General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1 (800) 426‑4791.

The Water Authority will inform local residents when the water is safe to drink. An updated message Emergency Message will be sent from Public Safety.

Students, faculty and staff should monitor e-mail, the college web site, social and local media for updated information and further updates.
Contact Campus Safety in the event of an emergency: 814-332-3357.

More information on Emergency website

Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities

Welcome to the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (URSCA) at Allegheny College. Allegheny College has a rich tradition of undergraduate research that dates back to the college’s founding in 1815. The mission of the URSCA Office is to promote student research, organize on-campus presentations of students projects, and provide information and support to students who present their projects off-campus.

URSCA at Allegheny

The nature of senior projects are wildly different across the disciplines but as a process all of them involve something rare in this world: independent inquiry. The same can apply, beautifully, to collaborative student/faculty summer research. It is a kind of invitation to students our country’s educational systems almost never give: dear student, find a subject, an issue, a problem that intrigues or bothers you, dig into it and say something about it that’s both credible and new. The floor is yours. In fact, defining what the floor is may be yours as well. Now that’s hard.” – Professor Ben Slote, Allegheny College (during the 2022 Scholars Symposium Keynote Address).

Student research, scholarship, and creative activities take on many different flavors at Allegheny College. Whether it’s fieldwork in Alaska or a community art project, Allegheny students put theory into practice under the guidance of faculty and staff mentors through research, conference presentations, co-authored articles, and faculty-led study tours. Research, scholarship, and creative activities push students to engage a discipline or field as an active participant. Students contribute to the knowledge and understanding of their area of interest through student-faculty collaborations or independent work. URSCA lets students take what they are learning at Allegheny and apply it in new contexts and for new purposes.

At Allegheny, there’s no graduate school buffer between undergraduates and some of the leading scholars in their fields. Allegheny students don’t have to wait behind graduate students for research positions on faculty-led projects. Faculty members in all disciplines actively engage students as research collaborators—and mentor students as they pursue their own independent research pursuits. In the National Survey of Student Engagement, responses by college seniors placed Allegheny within the top 10 percent in the U.S. for close student-faculty interaction.

Check out some of the videos below that highlight some recent Senior Comp Stories.