Bishop Makarios

The Late Reverend Thomas Makarios 

Bishop Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios, founder and leader of the U.S.-Canada Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Church of India, was a much-beloved professor of religious studies at Alma College for 25 years. He passed away February 23, 2008 in Newcastle, England. He was 81. There was a memorial service at Dunning Memorial Chapel on April 6, 2008.

Bishop Markarios was recognized posthumously as the 2008 recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Award for the Humanities division.

Click here to view a slideshow shown on the 40th day Memorial Service of H.G. Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios at St. Gregorios Orthodox Church of India, Queens (Elmont) N.Y.

 

 

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.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Kate Blanchard

Dr. Kate Blanchard
Departments: Religious Studies

Kate Blanchard came to Alma College in 2006 after finishing her doctorate in Christian ethics at Duke University.

She knew she wanted to teach at a liberal arts college because that’s where she earned her undergraduate degree.

“I enjoy teaching because I like to learn,” she says.