Service Award Presented at Community Appreciation Day
Alma College celebrates community with family-friendly activities, a scoreboard dedication and the awarding of the fifth annual Community Service Award prior to and during the Scots’ Sept. 10 home football game against Illinois Wesleyan University.
Posted: Thu, September 1st, 2011 at 8:12AM
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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
Ryan Zavacky
Graduation: 2014
Major: Religious Studies and Political Science
St. Joseph junior Ryan Zavacky is a culture buff who is creating a worldly undergraduate experience for himself through his double major in religious studies and political science.
“I love learning about a country’s culture,” he says. “I knew that by studying religion, I could learn about a specific aspect of culture that relates to culture as a whole, often in connection with politics.”