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Allegheny Receives Sherman Fairchild Foundation Grant To Purchase Major Scientific Instruments
Allegheny College has received a grant of $487,613 from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation to purchase three major instruments for departments in the college's natural science division.

Year of Health Programming Begins with Examination of “Water, Health and Conflict in the Middle East”
Rabbi Michael Cohen, special projects coordinator with the Arava Institute in Israel, will present a free public lecture, titled “Water, Health and Conflict in the Middle East,” at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 14 in the Patricia Bush Tippie Alumni Center at Allegheny College.

Humanities Series Lecture To Explore “The Joy of Life Tour”
The Allegheny College Humanities Lecture Series for 2008-2009 opens on Monday, Sept. 15 with a presentation by Associate Professor of Psychology Joshua Searle-White at 6:30 p.m. in Room 301 of the Campus Center.

Middle East Film Series Begins with “Cease Fire”
The Allegheny College Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies will present a 10-week Middle East film series Thursday, Sept. 11 through Thursday, Dec. 4.

Playshop Theatre To Present “Swapping Broomsticks for Muskets: Women of the Civil War” and “Color Me White”
The Allegheny College Playshop Theatre opens its 2008-2009 season with an evening of two original one-act plays that address issues of diversity and transformation in American life: “Swapping Broomsticks for Muskets: Women of the Civil War” and “Color Me White.”

Single Voice Reading Series Opens with Poets Annie Finch and Paula Bohince
Award-winning poets Annie Finch and Paula Bohince will read from their work at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11 in the Tillotson Room of Allegheny College's Tippie Alumni Center at Cochran Hall.

Award-Winning Trio To Kick Off 19th Annual Silberman Recital Series at Allegheny College
The 19th annual Silberman Recital Series at Allegheny College will open on Monday, Sept. 8 with a performance by the Manhattan Piano Trio at 7:30 p.m. in Ford Memorial Chapel.

Allegheny College Receives Hirtzel Foundation Grant To Purchase Scientific Equipment
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 -- an imaging system and an automatic elemental analyzer -- that will strengthen the analytical skills of students in a range of chemistry, biochemistry and biology courses.

Allegheny College Receives National Science Foundation Grant To Support Physics Research in Budapest
Allegheny College has received a grant of $102,284 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support student summer research at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

President Mullen Welcomes Class of 2012 -- Likely Most Diverse in Allegheny History
In his first official ceremony as president of Allegheny College, James H. Mullen Jr. welcomed 599 new students at the college's matriculation ceremony on Sunday, Aug. 24.

Market Alley Mural To Be Installed This Week: A Creative Celebration of Meadville and Mill Run
The creative energy of Meadville's community spirit will be nearly impossible to miss in downtown Meadville after next week.

Art Galleries to Exhibit Artists at Work in “8-Hour Projects”
The art galleries of Allegheny College will present “8-Hour Projects,” an exhibit with 13 artists working in the Bowman and Penelec Galleries, beginning Saturday, Aug. 30.

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