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June 19, 2013

About The Pinecone

The Pinecone, the online publication for Alma College faculty and staff, is published every other Friday by the Marketing and Communications Office. Send comments to Mike Silverthorn, Editor, phone 7290.

The current and past issues of The Pinecone are archived.

Submission deadline

The deadline for submitting information for placement in The Pinecone is noon Wednesday prior to the Friday publication date. Events that may not be listed on a calendar and other items of interest to the campus community are welcome. Submit news items to Mike Silverthorn, Pinecone editor, phone 7290.

The Alma College Mission

Alma College's mission is to prepare graduates who think critically, serve generously, lead purposefully and live responsibly as stewards of the world they bequeath to future generations. Read more.

 

Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Student Profile

Jaycee Nelson

Jaycee Nelson
Graduation: 2013
Major: Communication

After quitting cheer in high school, Belleville senior Jaycee Nelson thought she had hung up her pom-poms for good. But when she came to Alma College, she decided to give the sport another try.

“Cheer is a lot of hard work, but it’s also very rewarding,” she says. “The team is one of my strongest support groups on campus, and we have a lot of fun together.”

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