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Professional Activities

Professional Activities

Thomas Ealey, associate professor of business administration, presented "Calculating the Impacts of Health Care Reform" to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, Chicago, October 2009, and "Financial Decision Models and Health Care Reform" to the Medical Group Management Association, Denver, October 2009.

Andrew Thall, assistant professor of mathematics/computer science, attended the New Media Consortium Symposium for the Future Oct. 27-29. The 2009 meeting, 14th in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia, explored actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Issues included political and environmental concerns, sustainability, and the educational and societal impact of new media and social networking. Participants from as far away as Korea were in attendance in the real-time virtual environment.

 

Posted: Thu, November 5th, 2009 at 10:19AM

 

Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term '09, students toured cultural sites in Peru, studied alternative energy in Sweden, analyzed theatre and dance in London, and examined Native American culture at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota.

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Student Profile

Drew Emge

Drew Emge
Graduation: 2009
Major: POE: International Health
From: Bay City
Interests: Health Professions, Community Service

A Truman Scholarship finalist and Center for Responsible Leadership Fellow, Drew has traveled to South Africa and China studying the HIV/AIDS crisis. The Bay City native intends to use his French minor and POE in International Health to improve AIDS care in Africa, hopefully as a physician with a global public health organization.

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