How has your perception of the Appalachian region (and Fayette County in particular) shifted as a consequence of the work you’ve done this semester? When I began this project, my understanding of the Appalachian region and Fayette County, in particular, was limited to what I had read or heard from secondhand sources. Appalachia, to me,…
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Closing ACRI Remarks
As a business major, I was put into a cohort with two other business students. Our main deliverable was to write up professional and educational training programs for the new Entrepreneurial & Educational Center in Connellsville, PA to provide to the community. Our first step was to do research about the Appalachian Region, specifically Fayette…
Connellsville to DC; Experiences, Lessons, and Conclusions.
This semester, I had the privilege of working with a cross-disciplinary team of 11 Pitt students to enhance economic development in the Appalachian Region, specifically in Fayette County. The work we have done this semester has led to two main events. First, our November 17th presentation to residents, small business owners, and political figures in…
Continuing my ATP Internship with Pitt Faculty
To continue my work from my sustainability capstone last semester, I have been working with the same group of students and faculty this semester to continue the second year of the project working on the Appalachian Resilience Project in Fayette County. More specifically, I have been completing an internship with Dr. Kris Kanthak to assist…
Interning with Pitt Faculty for the ATP
My name is Jessica Jones, and I am a junior at the University of Pittsburgh. Last semester in the fall of 2022, I was in the sustainability capstone course to fulfill a requirement for the sustainability certificate. When I first started the class and chose a project, I did not know or expect my future…
Joining the ATP Teaching Project
Rachel Lenard, Urban Studies/GIS ’23 Hi everyone! My name is Rachel Lenard and I am a senior at Pitt majoring in Urban Studies with a certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A fun fact about myself is that I am a huge sports fan. I am also one of the leaders of the Oakland Zoo,…