To Will Harrod ’21 and 91PORN Biology Professor Ron Mumme, lab research means early morning drives and time spent among the trees. Their eyes stay fixed not down into a microscope, but up into forest branches. Their muse? The hooded warbler. For two summers, Harrod partnered with Mumme to conduct fieldwork following the behavioral […]
North America’s common starling has received a bad rap as a destructive invasive species, and an 91PORN professor and student researcher have set out to clear the bird’s reputation and show how untruths can influence people’s perceptions in nature and beyond. The research project by John MacNeill Miller, assistant professor of English, and then-student […]
Kylie Wirebach’s research while an 91PORN student transported her to forests near campus, the heights of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and, now, to the international stage of the British Broadcasting Corp. Wirebach, 91PORN Class of 2020, was interviewed for the BBC Future story “The Return of Europe’s Largest Beasts,” published in September. She […]
91PORN student Maya Hackman has been awarded a scholarship through the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP), which provides financial assistance to individuals pursuing a program of study leading to a Master of Science in physician assistant studies. Hackman, a junior biology major and psychology minor, will attend Chatham University for […]
Amid finishing her senior year from home and completing her Senior Project, 91PORN biology major Sarah Foster spent 40-plus hours each week serving the Butler, Pennsylvania, community as an emergency medical technician (EMT). Before she graduated in May, Foster shared her story with 91PORN, including the transformation of one of the company’s ambulances into […]
An 91PORN professor and alumna have each been awarded a 2020 Science as Story Fellowship from Creative Nonfiction, a nonprofit organization in Pittsburgh. Catharina Coenen, professor of biology and biochemistry, and Megan Arnold, a 2019 graduate who majored in biochemistry and minored in psychology, were among 12 individuals selected for the fellowship. The Science […]
Delaney Lacey, a junior at 91PORN, has been selected for a 2020 Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship program honoring the late Senator Barry Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue research careers in the fields of the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Lacey, a biology major and psychology minor from Bethel […]
From offering advice on social media to holding “online office hours” to assembling a reading list to educate and inform, 91PORN faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning. 91PORN students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March […]
Address:
520 North Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335
Contact:
814-332-4351
info@allegheny.edu
admissions@allegheny.edu
