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Elizabeth Saylor

Student Profile: Elizabeth Saylor

Elizabeth Saylor knew she wanted to major in exercise and health science and Alma attracted her with its reputation and cadaver lab.

“I wanted to go somewhere that had small class sizes but still offered lots of opportunities,” the Allen Park senior says. “At Alma, I am able to not only learn all of the facts I need to go on in EHS, but also to acquire a good grasp of the big picture - how ’health’ really encompasses so many different things.”

Elizabeth Saylor

Once she finishes graduate school, Saylor would like to work with children who have developmental disabilities.

“All the one-on-one experience I’ve had in all of the EHS lab settings will be very useful to me as I go on to graduate school,” she says.

Saylor is a member of the Alma Choir and Sigma Alpha Iota (the women’s music fraternity). She is also the secretary of the EHS honor society, the student supervisor for the main switchboard, and works at the Alma Middle School with the Explore Program.

 

Students conducting research side-by-side with faculty has been an Alma legacy for generations. Alma students team up with faculty on scholarly research or to collaborate on creative or performing arts projects. An annual Honors Day features student presentations, performances and exhibits. Many students present such work at regional, national and international meetings.

 

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Brandon Smith
Graduation: 2008
Major: Exercise and Health Science
Minor: Chemistry

Brandon Smith hopes his interest in the human body combined with his major in exercise and health science will earn him a spot in medical school in the fall of 2008.

“The Exercise and Health Science Department at Alma has classes that focus on function in physiology, structure in anatomy and even pathology in human diseases,” the Harrisville senior says. “I hope that I will discover an area of medicine that will call me in the way that the EHS program here did.”