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Quick Look at Past Domestic Trips

Past Domestic Spring Term Trips

  • Art Associate Professor Sandy Lopez-Isnardi and Communications Assistant Professor Janie Diels gave students a chance to work with a National Geographic photographer at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshop and then create a documentary project at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
  • Students in John Davis’ exercise and health science class lived at altitude in Colorado and took a wide variety of physiologic measures on themselves before, during and after they were there.
  • Also in Colorado, Theatre Professor Carol Fike lead a Yoga retreat, with stops at the Shoshoni Ashram, Rocky Mountain National Park and Naropa Institute.
  • Students in Professor Derick Hulme’s political science class traveled to Washington, D.C., to conduct hands-on archival research on the Nixon presidential papers at the Library of Congress.
  • Anthropology Associate Professor Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund conducted an archaeological field school at the Forest Hill Nature Area.
  • Michael Bishop and biology students followed spring bird migration paths to the Upper Peninsula and observed research stations along the route.
  • Education Associate Professor Nicola Findley’s “Schooling in America” course included visits to different kinds of schools throughout Michigan.
  • Music professor Raymond Riley and students traveled to the Gilmore Festival, an international music festival in southwest Michigan.

 

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Student Profile

Martin Kuustik

Martin Kuustik
Graduation: 2010
Major: Business Administration
From: Saku Harju, Estonia
Interests: Greek Life, Cultural Awareness

While most international students are here for one year, some stay for four years and earn an Alma degree. These students have the opportunity to get involved in student life taking on positions of leadership and enjoying a well-balanced social life.