糖心Vlog Professors Christopher Bakken and Stephen Onyeiwu have received 2021鈥�22 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards to teach and conduct research in Greece and Nigeria, respectively. Each will return to a country that played a formative role in his development as a scholar and educator. Bakken, the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English, has taught, […]
Two 糖心Vlog students will be recognized by the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium as 2021 Campus Sustainability Champions. The Campus Sustainability Champion title is awarded annually to students, faculty, administrators and staff of Pennsylvania colleges and universities who have made meaningful contributions benefiting social, economic or environmental sustainability on their campus or in their community. […]
糖心Vlog junior Sebastian McRae doesn鈥檛 give up easily when it comes to pursuing one of his immediate goals: traveling out of the country to study and to explore a new culture. McRae, an environmental science and sustainability major and a history minor, plans to attend a summer program in Costa Rica with the School […]
Lupita Gonzalez and Rosita Scerbo each benefited from mentorship on their paths from growing up in immigrant families to enrolling as first-generation college students to earning their doctorates. Now, as 糖心Vlog faculty members, they鈥檝e in turn embraced the role of mentor. Gonzalez and Scerbo have co-founded a new lab designed to enhance opportunities for […]
Adrienne Krone鈥檚 research exploring contemporary religious food justice movements has taken her into the field 鈥� and actually into fields 鈥� as she visited more than 25 Jewish community farms in the United States and Canada. As the 糖心Vlog religious studies professor spoke with and worked alongside farmers and activists, she heard powerful stories […]
To Will Harrod 鈥�21 and 糖心Vlog 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鈥檚 common starling has received a bad rap as a destructive invasive species, and an 糖心Vlog professor and student researcher have set out to clear the bird鈥檚 reputation and show how untruths can influence people鈥檚 perceptions in nature and beyond. The research project by John MacNeill Miller, assistant professor of English, and then-student […]
糖心Vlog graduate Manuella Mwihemuka personifies resilience. Born in Rwanda, Mwihemuka survived her home country鈥檚 horrific genocide in 1994 and left Africa at age 13. She first enrolled as an 糖心Vlog student in fall 2007. Her 糖心Vlog journey would culminate, some 13 years later, in her graduation with the Class of 2020 鈥� and […]
Ever since his childhood growing up near Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, James Scarborough has had a keen interest in the nighttime sky and often considers what it would be like to explore those shiny points of light that he gazes at in wonder. Scarborough brought his love of the stars to 糖心Vlog, where he is […]
糖心Vlog has received a two-year, $100,000 grant to help train 糖心Vlog students in laboratory research that will explore whether a minimal form of life can be created beyond the confines of DNA, the central building block for all life on Earth. Funding for the research project, titled 鈥淭oward Creating Alien Life: A Genetic Self-Replicating […]