Name and Hometown
Erin Bernethy, Linwood
Jennifer Cornacchione, Kendalville, Ind.
Melissa Hanson, Manistee
Stephen Lehman, Berkley
Katelyn Moy, Greenville
Rebecca Peacock, Grandville
Dan Rito, Grosse Ile
Heather Shoffstall, Holt
Emily Sias, Mt. Pleasant
Megan Stevenson, Comstock Park
Haley Underwood, Florence, Wisc.
Eli Woolcott, Elk Rapids
Juliann Schaffer, Americorps VISTA volunteer
Sallie Scheide, Alma College assistant director of Discovering Vocation
Trip Participants
Alma College’s partnership with the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Force, an EPA-sanctioned Community Advisory Group (CAG), was selected as a finalist for Michigan’s 2007 Carter Partnership Award. The Task Force is recognized as one of the most influential and active CAGs nationally and as having the largest membership of any CAG in the United States.
Student Profile
Brett Seymoure
Graduation: 2009
Major: Biology
From: Paw Paw, Michigan
Interests: Sports, Politics
Alma’s close faculty-student interaction provides numerous benefits such as the ability to do undergraduate research on a graduate level. Alma’s professors treat students more as peers welcoming student input and collaboration on faculty projects. When students are involved in research, faculty aggressively pursue publication of findings including students as co-authors.