Honors Day Schedule 2013

Wednesday, April 3

8 p.m. Honors Day Keynote Speaker, Remick Heritage Center, Presbyterian Hall

“Five Elements of Effective Thinking” Dr. Edward Burger


Honors Day, Thursday, April 4

Classes Cancelled

9–10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions I

10:15–11:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions II

11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Lunch

Honors Day Participants, North Van Dusen Commons
All Others, Hamilton Commons

1–2 p.m. Concurrent Sessions III

2:15–3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions IV

3:30–4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions V

4:30 p.m. Reception and Awards, Remick Heritage Center, Lobby

Kapp Honors Day Prize and Barlow Trophy Award Winners Announced

 

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 2012, students observed lizards in Bermuda, studied modern economic development in India, performed dance in Taiwan, examined renewable energy in Europe and investigated medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest.

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Faculty Profile

Dr. Brandi Stupica

Dr. Brandi Stupica
Departments: Psychology

What do people do? Why do they do what they do? Though Brandi Stupica, assistant professor of psychology, doesn’t claim to hold all the answers, she has still dedicated her life to figuring people out.

“I went into college thinking pre-med and quickly switched to English, all while taking psychology classes and really liking them,” she says. “Even when I declared my psychology major, I thought it was just a back-up! I finally realized all my behaviors were indicating that psychology was the thing I was really interested in.”

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