Grants & Gifts

• Dr. David Statman, professor of physics and chemistry, has been awarded a grant of $102,284 from the National Science Foundation. The grant will support student summer research at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and optics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Allegheny students will have opportunities to learn experimental techniques not available at Allegheny as they engage in experimental investigations studying the interaction between azo dyes and nematic liquid crystals with polymer surfaces and surfaces coated with nanotubes. one hundred percent of the $102,284 cost of the project will be covered by federal funds through the National Science Foundation grant.


• Allegheny College has received a grant of $100,000 from the Orris C. Hirtzel and Beatrice Dewey Hirtzel Memorial Foundation to purchase two pieces of scientific equipment that will strengthen the analytical skills of students in a range of chemistry, biochemistry, and biology courses.


• The Sherman Fairchild Foundation recently awarded Allegheny College a grant of $487,613 to purchase three major instruments for the natural science departments. The equipment will be used for teaching and faculty-student research and will be shared among the departments of biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, neuroscience, and physics.


• The PNC Foundation recently awarded to the College a $10,000 grant that will be added to an endowed scholarship fund that PNC's predecessor bank, the Pittsburgh National Bank, established in the 1980s. In addition, PNC has directed $6,000 in funding to Allegheny under Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program. By supporting EITC-approved programs that make a real difference to public school students, businesses may receive a tax credit equal to 75 percent of their contribution to a maximum of $200,000 a year. In other words, instead of paying state taxes, businesses contribute to programs that benefit public schools.