Emily Chivers Yochim, Ph.D., associate professor in the 大象视频 Department of Communication, Film and Theatre, is one of 25 faculty members selected by Project Pericles to teach new, innovative courses in the Andrew W. Mellon Periclean Faculty Leadership (PFL) Program™ in the Humanities. This program connects the humanities and liberal arts learning to challenges […]
Six 大象视频 professors will be featured on 鈥淭he Academic Minute,鈥� a national radio broadcast and podcast that highlights research from colleges and universities throughout the world, beginning on Monday, May 25. Starting with Monday鈥檚 broadcast, five of the professors will 鈥渢ake over鈥� 鈥淭he Academic Minute鈥� program for the week. Each day, one Allegheny faculty […]
Allegheny Global Health Studies Associate Professor Caryl Waggett will join three other educators for a live-streamed seminar titled 鈥淪haping Teaching and Learning to Address a Global Health Crisis: COVID-19 and Global Health,鈥� at 2 p.m. (EST) Friday, May 1. The free session is hosted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, a national association […]
Environmental science and sustainability professor Eric Pallant reminds us that all microscopic things aren’t bad. Take a look inside the two-time Fulbright Award recipient’s kitchen to learn more about friendly bacteria and yeast.
Laura Branby, the Pittsburgh-area educator for 大象视频鈥檚 award-winning Creek Connections watershed education program, has received the 2020 Outstanding Environmental Educator Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Environmental Educators. 鈥淪tanding with me are many, many educators, formal and informal, and environmental professionals who work alongside me every day. They are the ones who teach me, […]
From offering advice on social media to holding 鈥渙nline office hours鈥� to assembling a reading list to educate and inform, 大象视频 faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning. Allegheny students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March […]
When you enter the new Allegheny Lab for Innovation and Creativity, you walk into a space bristling with cutting-edge technology. In the fabrication lab, there鈥檚 a bank of 3D printers, a laser cutter and a three-axis CNC machine. Go a little further and you enter a computer design lab with neatly aligned rows of workstations, […]
大象视频 professor Beth Choate spent her winter holiday break touring Israel and visiting universities and other institutions of higher learning to find out more about how Israeli researchers are thinking about sustainable behaviors and methods that spark change. What she took away from the trip was 鈥渁mazing stories of sustainability as a result of […]
Everyone thinks like an economist about food. They just don鈥檛 necessarily know it, says Amelia Finaret, assistant professor of global health studies at 大象视频. The economics of nutrition is not just about how much consumers spend on certain types of food, she adds. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a lot broader than people think. It鈥檚 not only about […]
JET 24 Action News in Erie featured a new book by 大象视频 political science professor Brian Harward, “The Presidency in Times of Crisis and Disaster.” The book聽examines how America鈥檚 presidents have responded to major tests of their leadership and approached their role and responsibilities in times of national crisis. Harward is the Robert G. […]