News Releases

Highland Dance Origins Thousands of Years Old
Alma College Highland Dance Director Kate DeGood will lend her expertise to a Scottish arts video project coordinated by the St. Andrews Society of Detroit.

Highland Dancers, Pipers Celebrate Scottish Arts
The Alma College Kiltie Dancers and Pipe Band will perform both modern and traditional pieces and dances during a concert that celebrates the Scottish arts.

Rybicki Reads from New Collection of Poems
After his wife lost her 16-year battle with cancer, poet John Rybicki began writing in her memory. In his new collection of poems, titled "When All the World Is Old," Rybicki tells of how his family coped with her cancer.

 

Alma College’s membership in Phi Beta Kappa is an indication of excellence within the liberal arts. Only 10 percent of colleges and universities in the United States share this distinction. The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious undergraduate honors organization.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Karen Ball

Dr. Karen Ball
Departments: Integrative Physiology & Health Science

Dr. Karen Ball, associate professor of integrative physiology and health science, graduated magna cum laude from Alma College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the exercise and health science program in 1987.

Ball received her doctorate in physiology and biophysics at the University of Illinois. Before coming to Alma she spent one and a half years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.