From alumni successes to faculty research to student life, take a look at the latest stories from the community at Chatham University
Inside the Aquaculture Lab
Aquaculture—the farming of marine organisms, including fish, shellfish, turtles, and plants—is responsible for more than half of all seafood eaten worldwide,[1] and getting bigger. Falk School Aquatic Lab Director Roy Weitzell, PhD is ready.
Course Spotlight: Community Research in Food and Health
Having worked for the federal aid program known as WIC, Mim Seidel knew that Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program checks often went unused.
Student Profile: Lynzy Groves ‘16
“I like being able to use my marketing skills to create events and promote them and unite people in the spirit of giving back.”
Interprofessional Education in the Health Sciences
The goal of interprofessional education at Chatham is to prepare students in nursing, psychology, physician assistant studies and occupational and physical therapy to learn from and about each other’s professions in order to practice as part of a collaborative, patient centered team.
“We Don’t Pick Out Pillows: the Science of Design”
Chatham students teach chemistry students at CUNY College of Technology about building design and its impact on the environment.
Undergraduate Student Christina Austin Awarded Research Fellowship
Austin's work may one day be used to help diagnose lupus, today an arduous process that often takes years.
Course Spotlight: Natural Resources Leadership
Pittsburgh is a city of three rivers, in a county of 263 abandoned mine sites. If you appreciate water as a recreational resource, this is cause for celebration. If you’re savvy about pollution, it’s cause for concern.
Health Science Students Engage in Poverty Simulation
The challenge is to use what you have at hand – your resources and the community services in the room – to meet your basic needs, for four 15-minute periods, each of which represents one week.
Harvesting Rainwater at Eden Hall Campus
Miga is also proud that the project makes use of an existing structure, rather than calls for new construction. “We inherited this property, and we’re making an effort to use what is here,” he says.
Food Studies Students Produce New Whiskey
Students have been working since the fall to develop—from ideation to market—a ginger whiskey that they plan to release around Valentine’s Day 2016.