Celebrating Black History Month: Alaine Allen is investing in the future of youth

PITTSBURGH (February 27, 2012) ... As a student, Alaine Allen excelled in math and science, all the way from elementary school through college. And in her first job as a physics teacher in the Woodland Hills School District, she was confident that she could engage her students in the sciences. Early on in her career, Allen realized that her true passion was more in connecting with and guiding students than in teaching science.

Read more about Alaine Allen , director of the Swanson School of Engineering's Pitt Engineering Career Access Program (PECAP), in a feature by the Pitt Chronicle's Audrey M. Marks.

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