Notes and News

Alma Hosts NSF MindStorms Workshop

Alma College hosted a wokshop on using Lego MindStorms throughout the undergraduate computer science curriculum this past June. Twenty-three faculty from all over the country attended the three day workshop, which focused on the curriculum materials being developed under a National Science Foundation grant.  The faculty for the workshop were Myles McNally (Alma College) and Pamela Lawhead (University of Mississippi) with  Alma student Josh Borgerding ('06) assisting. Go to the website for the project.


Posted: Fri, July 1st, 2005 at 1:41PM

 

Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration—with the assistance of a faculty advisor—to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, Foreign Service and international law, and music technology and digital media.

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Graduate Profile

Chad Jenkins

Chad Jenkins
Graduation: 1994
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics

Don’t take that URL at the top of the screen for granted! In 1994, alumnus Chad Jenkins had to work from scratch to create Alma College’s first official website.

“Jim Blumm and I worked together to establish it,” he says. “While it was exciting, I’ll admit our website was a bit less aesthetically pleasing than the current one.”

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