August

NATIONAL, STATEWIDE AND METRO DETROIT MEDIA

Alma College Pipe Band performs at local highland festival.

  • Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, metro Detroit, August 6, 2011
  • Observer & Eccentric Newspapers, metro Detroit, August 25, 2011

Ten skills every student should learn.

“The single most important skill for every student to learn is how to communicate effectively,” said Dr. Lynda Ludy, grade 2 teacher, Detroit County Day School, professor emerita of education, Alma College.

  • eSchool Online, Bethesda, Md., August 10, 2011

Baseball: 10 Red Sox who never got credit they deserved.

Columnist reminisces about Red Sox history, mentioning that John Leister is now the athletic director at Alma College.

  • Worcester Telegram & Gazette, August 14, 2011

Alma College students travel to Scotland.

  • Lake Huron Presbytery newsletter, August 16, 2011
  • Gratiot County Herald, Ithaca, August 18, 2011

LOCAL AND REGIONAL MICHIGAN MEDIA

Local students plan to attend Alma College.

  • Coldwater Daily Reporter, August 1, 2011
  • Sault Ste. Marie Evening News, August 2, 2011
  • Medina County Gazette, Medina, Ohio, August 2, 2011
  • St. Ignace News, August 4, 2011
  • Muskegon Chronicle, August 15, 2011
  • Penasee Globe, Jenison, August 15, 2011
  • Birch Run/Bridgeport Herald, August 17, 2011
  • Davison Index, August 18, 2011
  • Jackson Citizen Patriot,August 18, 2011
  • Presque Isle County Advance, Rogers City, August 18, 2011
  • Alpena News, August 19, 2011
  • The Mining Journal, Marquette, August 20, 2011
  • Grand Rapids Press, August 24, 2011

Local stories about Alma College students.

  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 2, 2011
  • St. Ignace News, August 25, 2011

Local stories about Alma College alumni.

  • NCAA.com, August 1, 2011
  • ESPN Outside the Lines, August 3, 2011
  • Manistee News Advocate, August 4, 2011
  • Port Huron Times Herald, August 14, 2011
  • Grand Ledge Independent, August 14, 2011
  • Enhanced Online News, August 18, 2011
  • CBS Detroit, August 18, 2011
  • Michigan Technology News, Ann Arbor, August 18, 2011
  • Oceana’s Herald-Journal, Hart, August 18, 2011
  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 21, 2011
  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 22, 2011
  • Royal Oak Patch, August 22, 2011
  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun,August 25, 2011
  • Bay City Times, August 25, 2011

Local students graduate from Alma College.

  • Saginaw News, August 14, 2011

Jamie Young of Saginaw is awarded the Barlow Trophy.

  • Township Times, Saginaw, August 3, 2011

Alma College receives “Best in the Midwest” designation.

  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 3, 2011
  • Kalamazoo Gazette, August 4, 2011
  • Gratiot County Herald, Ithaca, August 25, 2011

Directory of Michigan colleges and universities.

  • Muskegon Chronicle, August 7, 2011

Local high school squads attend cheerleader camp at Alma College.

  • Cedar Springs Post, August 11, 2011
  • Maple Valley News, Nashville, August 13, 2011

Some ice cream and a lot of thanks as Stucchi’s pays tribute to local firefighters.

The tribute at College Corner thanked the firefighters who responded to the Oct. 14, 2010, fire in downtown Alma. “Mt. Pleasant sent a ladder truck and all of Gratiot came together. I was proud to be a part of such a professional group,” said Alma Public Safety Director Dave Walsh.

  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 14, 2011

Will clean up of St. Louis Velsicol site take forever?

Coming into contact with the contaminants would make a human sick, making the removal process a concern for workers’ health in the removal, said Alma College geologist Murray Borrello.

  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 19, 2011

Caro native named director of alumni engagement at Alma College.

Lou Ecken strives to increase the ways alumni interact with their alma mater.

  • Tuscola County Advertiser, Caro, August 20, 2011

Freshman orientation week begins Saturday at Alma College.

Orientation week helps first-year students start to build connections to campus, said Campus Life Director Dave Blandford.

  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 23, 2011
  • Gratiot County Herald, Ithaca, August 25, 2011

First year seminars offered to new Alma College students.

“First year seminars bring the excitement of research and hands-on learning to the beginning of the students’ program of study,” said Provost Michael Selmon.

  • Gratiot County Herald, Ithaca, August 25, 2011

Alma College freshmen welcomed Saturday as they begin a week of orientation.

  • Alma/Mount Pleasant Morning Sun, August 28, 2011

STORIES ABOUT ALMA COLLEGE ATHLETICS

Alma College is mentioned multiple times daily and hundreds of times every week in conference standings, national polls, statistics, schedules, predictions, game results and previews. The following list is only a sampling of news items on Alma College sports teams and athletes. Stories about Alma athletics appear in nearly every issue of the Alma Morning Sun and Gratiot County Herald and are not included here.

  • Escanaba Daily Press, August 4, 2011
  • Midland Daily News, August 4, 2011
  • Saginaw News, August 4, 2011
  • Holland Sentinel, August 8, 2011
  • Saginaw News, August 8, 2011
  • Kalamazoo Gazette, August 9, 2011
  • Holland Sentinel, August 9, 2011
  • Oakland Press, Pontiac, August 10, 2011
  • Saginaw News, August 11, 2011
  • Albion Recorder, August 11, 2011
  • Cedar Springs Post, August 11, 2011
  • Springport Signal, August 11, 2011
  • Burton News, August 14, 2011
  • Livingston Daily, Brighton, August 16, 2011
  • Gaylord Herald Times, August 16, 2011
  • Petoskey News-Review, August 16, 2011
  • Holland Sentinel, August 18, 2011
  • Holland Sentinel, August 22, 2011
  • Holland Sentinel, August 23, 2011
  • Saginaw News, August 23, 2011
  • Clare Sentinel, August 23, 2011
  • Detroit News, August 24, 2011
  • Holland Sentinel, August 24, 2011
  • Woodward Talk, Warren, August 24, 2011
  • Royal Oak Review, August 24, 2011
  • Madison Park News, August 24, 2011
  • West Bloomfield Beacon, August 24, 2011
  • Birmingham/Bloomfield Eagle, August 24, 2011
  • Shelby Utica News, August 24, 2011
  • Macomb Chronicle, August 25, 2011
  • Albion Recorder, August 25, 2011
  • Southfield Sun, August 25, 2011
  • Traverse City Record-Eagle, August 27, 2011
  • Grand Rapids Press, August 31, 2011

 

Alma’s innovative PRISM project—Positive Routes Into Science and Mathematics—gets more students excited about science. It engages students in research opportunities not only in their first, second, third and fourth years of college but also in the summer prior to taking their first college course. PRISM is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

 

Student Profile

Tara Riedel

Tara Riedel
Graduation: 2013
Major: Theatre

When Tara Riedel came to Alma College, she knew she would meet plenty of new people. But through her involvement in theatre, she has gotten to know someone she didn’t necessarily expect to: herself.

“I’ve learned so much about myself as a person in the last three years,” she says. “The Meisner technique has us focus on our acting partner instead of ourselves. As backward as it seems, I’ve learned that when you stop focusing on yourself, you really learn about yourself.”