Alma College News

The following students were named to the Northern Michigan University Dean's List for the winter 2009 semester: Laura Judge and Rachel Koleda, both of Williamston, and Jessica Higginbotham of Webberville.

Robert J. Perkins, Ph.D. has been appointed as the new vice president of student affairs and dean of students at Keystone College .

A 2009 Spring Term trip to Peru gave a group of Alma College students a chance to learn Spanish, discover the Peruvian culture and serve in a third-world country.

ALMA - Former Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart boys basketball coach Keisha Brown was announced as the new women's basketball head coach by Alma College athletic director John Leister on Wednesday.

Nineteen Alma College students recently explored alternative and renewable energy during a four-week travel course that took them to Sweden, Denmark and England.

What started as a grant application to partner Presbyterian colleges, seminaries and churches turned into a Spring Term class that challenged the way students thought about a basic need - their food.

Steve Meyer of Welch Allyn awarded the Leonard Berke Achievement Award. Meyer is an Alma College graduate and member of the Board of Trustees.

Emily Leathley of Livonia, a Hope College junior and 2007 graduate of Churchill High School, was awarded the S.H.A.R.P. research internship grant to conduct research in behavioral neuroendocrinology.

Northern Michigan University Students with a grade point average of 3.25-3.99 qualified for the winter 2009 semester dean's list, including Novi students Kevin O'Keefe and Johnathan Ross.

Thousands of college students counting on state merit scholarships this fall may be in for a surprise, as lawmakers are poised to gut the state's financial aid budget.

Alma College has named over 400 students to the Dean's List for outstanding academic performance during the 2009 winter term.

John Davisa ongoing research on the effects of high altitude exposure on humans takes him to Ecuador this summer, where he and two Alma College students will test climbers at the base of the worlda s a oelargesta mountain.

St. Thomas's historic Alma College -- destroyed in a fire last May -- is getting the tribute it deserves.

Dr. Saundra Tracy, expressing appreciation to a talented faculty and staff and dedicated Board of Trustees for recent College accomplishments, has announced her decision to retire as Alma College president effective in June 2010.

After one and a half years of research, reading more than 500 essays and books and moving almost 800 miles for a new position, Dana Aspinall has published bibliographies on four of Shakespearea s early comedies.

Author Mary Agria, wife of former Alma College professor and dean of academic affairs John Agria, will read from her most recent novel, Community of Scholars , in the Alma College Library on Monday, June 1. The reading will begin at 3 p.m. and last an hour.

Kirk J. Redman has been named to the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Dean's List in recognition of outstanding academic achievement for both the Fall and Winter quarters.

Senior James Mireles committed to Alma College for Fall 2009 to play football. He has been on the varsity football team since his sophomore year and with the Holt wrestling team on varsity since his freshman year, and brought back a state championship last year.

" The top two graduating seniors of Farwell High School have a lot to celebrate, as they move toward the future after graduating on Sunday, May 17.

The memory and spiritual ideals of the late Bishop Thomas Mar Makarios remain alive in a figurative sculpture that was unveiled and dedicated May 16 at Alma College, the American institution he faithfully served for 25 years.