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Thousands of miles away in Cuenca, Ecuador, people struggle to maintain a desperately needed school for disabled children. Bringing hope, donated school supplies, a willingness to learn, an eagerness to serve, and open minds and hearts, students in an interdisciplinary “Comparative Cultures” course traveled to the South American country during Interim to immerse themselves in its culture and religion.
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Check out blogs from Albright students and staff as they travel for spring break. Justin Kollinger reports from New Orleans where a dozen Albright students are completing community service projects on an alternative spring break trip. Kiersten Gilfoy '13 is traveling across Florida with Albright Softball. Jesse Grieb ’13 blogs as he tours the east coast, performing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Florida with the Albright choirs and Doug Mace ’12 is in Phoenix, Ariz., competing with Albright baseball. |
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Making Music
Ilyssa DePonte '13 spent her summer arranging music for a cappella choirs as part of an Albright Creative Research Experience. Working with director of choral studies and co-chair of the music department Adlai Binger, she arranged songs, researched repetoire, chose program content and wrote program notes.
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The Science of Teaching Politics
"Wheeling and Dealing: The Art and Science of Negotiation" is interactive and challenging, demands critical thinking and has real world applications– whether buying a car or understanding the consequences of the U.S. taking a public stand in the Libyan crisis.
In other words, just the kind of course Professor Tom Brogan, Ph.D., is known for.
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Albright College English Professor Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant
Teresa Gilliams, Ph.D., associate professor of English, was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for research on her scholarly project, “Retrievable Wrongs: Reading, Preserving and Globalizing African-American Women’s Writing.”
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Albright Profs and Students Travel to India to Explore Social Roles and Family Ties in a Rapidly Changing Society
A group of intrepid Albrightans spent their 2011 spring break halfway around the globe as part of an interdisciplinary course exploring how Hindu beliefs about social roles and family ties impact India's rapidly changing society and economy.
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Breaking Bonds
Student - Professor research teams working on multi-year research project to make molecules more reactive. |
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Albright Instructor Bonnie Rohde and Students Win Grant to Help Launch Local Entrepreneur
Albright College business instructor Bonnie Rohde and four students have received an $8,000 grant to help a local business develop an innovative consumer text messaging system.
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Prison to Society
Albright Assistant Professor of Psychology Lindsay A. Phillips, Psy.D., shows that most inmates don't have the proper coping mechanisms that will allow them to deal with life outside of prison.
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