Gator TAILS (Talking About Inquiry, Learning, and Scholarship) is a podcast hosted by Dr. Matt Venesky, the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities at Allegheny College, home of the Allegheny Gators. This podcast will explore what it means to be involved in research, scholarship, and creative work at Allegheny, as told by our current students.

Gator TAILS
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Gator TAILS (Talking About Inquiry, Learning, and Scholarship) is a podcast hosted by Dr. Matt Venesky, the Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities at Allegheny College, home of the Allegheny Gators. This podcast will explore what it means to be involved in research, scholarship, and creative work at Allegheny, as told by our current students.
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Recent Episodes

February 7, 2025
Temperature extremes and innate immunity in birds
<p>As the Earth's climate changes, species will be exposed to different thermal environments from the ones in which they evolved. This not only includes changes in average temperatures (e.g., warmer winters), but more variable temperatures (e.g., a 70F day in the Spring followed by a 30F day). To some degree, organisms can cope with these temperature changes because of their physiological systems... but the degree to which variable temperature might cause short- or long-term effects in wild organisms is still poorly understood. Professor <a href="https://jenniferhoutz.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Jennifer Houtz</a> (<a href="https://allegheny.edu/academics/majors-minors/biology/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Biology</a>) and her students study some of these physiological mediators of stress resilience in wild birds. In this episode, I caught up with Sophia Mita ('24) quite literally right after she completed her Biology Senior Seminar to chat a bit more about the work that she did as part of a summer research project and how that morphed into her Senior Comp project, both under the direction of Professor Houtz. </p>

December 5, 2024
Using Mobile Retina Screening to Catch Eye Diseases
Professor Mahita Kadmiel and students Ngwe Leku and Mitchell Devore discuss how mobile retinal screening increases access to eye care for underserved patients.

October 14, 2024
The Philosophy of Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood)
<p>It’s been a quite a while since I’ve thought about Prince Tuesday, Mr. McFeely, and the other fictional characters in one of my favorite childhood TV shows: <a href="https://www.misterrogers.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood</a>. Bridgette Reeb (’25), a student in our <a href="https://sites.allegheny.edu/philosophy/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Philosophy Program</a>, has spent time during the last 2 academic years under the mentorship of <a href="https://sites.allegheny.edu/directory/employees/kurtsal-irem/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Prof. Irem Kurtsal</a> thinking about Fred Rogers… specifically, about some of the virtues and ethics associated with the philosophy of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. In this episode, Bridgette and I chat about how she began to view Fred Rogers as a philosopher and how some of the principles from his philosophy could be used/adopted by patients and health care providers in America.</p>
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