Notes and News

CS Majors Win Best Poster Award

Undergraduate student researchers Stu Bachner ('06), Rosemary Dutka ('06), and Ben Tidman ('06) won the best poster award at the 10th annual Consortium for Computing Science Midwest Meeting, held September 23-24 at Millikin University.  Their poster was entitled Designing Effective Algorithm Visualizations, and outlined the results of their summer research experiences over the previous two summers.  This work was supported by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Myles McNally was the faculty advisor. Read more about Computer Science undergraduate research at Alma.

Posted: Mon, September 26th, 2005 at 2:10PM

 

Colleges of Distinction, a national college guide for students, parents and counselors, identifies Alma College as "one of the best places to learn, grow and succeed." The Colleges of Distinction publication recognizes institutions for their commitment to engaged students, great teaching, vibrant communities and successful outcomes.

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Student Profile

Alex Hegedus

Alex Hegedus
Graduation: 2014
Major: Computer Science and Mathematics

Want to be a world traveler? A mathematic researcher? An Ultimate Frisbee player? A fraternity brother? At Alma College, Jackson junior Alex Hegedus doesn’t have to choose among his interests.

“You are able to do so many different things at Alma,” he says. “Friends at bigger universities say they have to pick one extracurricular and stick to that, so if I wanted to play Frisbee, I could only play Frisbee. But here it’s possible to make friends in so many different areas and be involved in so much.”

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