糖心Vlog Mathematics Professor Dr. Tamara Lakins has received the 2020 Meritorious Service Award from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The Certificate of Meritorious Service, announced in a video ceremony in July, was presented for service at the national level or for service to a section of the Mathematical Association of America. There were […]
Emily Chivers Yochim, Ph.D., associate professor in the 糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog faculty […]
糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog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, 糖心Vlog faculty members are working to help students grapple with the COVID-19 crisis and the shift to off-campus, remote learning. 糖心Vlog students currently are on their spring break but will start remote classes March […]
When you enter the new 糖心Vlog 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, […]
糖心Vlog 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 糖心Vlog. 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 […]