News Releases

Summer Camps, Conferences Bring Thousands to Campus
Summer camp and conference season has arrived. Between 4,500 and 5,000 students will visit the Alma College campus during the summer months.

Randolet First Alma Student To Win Boren Scholarship
Madeleine Randolet, an Alma College senior from Midland, has been awarded the Boren Scholarship to study in Morocco during the 2012-13 year.

More than 325 Seniors Participate in Commencement
Graduation service in Hogan Center at Alma College

APS Awards Research Fellowship to Alma Student
An Alma College student is one of 24 undergraduate students from across the country to receive a summer research fellowship from the American Physiological Society.

Stephen Meyer Elected Chair of Board of Trustees
Stephen F. Meyer of Skaneateles, N.Y., has been elected chair of the Alma College Board of Trustees.

Leadership Academy Explores Community Building
High School juniors who are interesting in creating positive change in their communities are invited to enroll in the High School Leadership Academy at Alma College.

Omicron Delta Kappa Inducts New Members
Students selected for national leadership honorary

New Members of Phi Beta Kappa Announced
Students inducted to nation's oldest and most well-known academic honor society

 

Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term 2012, students observed lizards in Bermuda, studied modern economic development in India, performed dance in Taiwan, examined renewable energy in Europe and investigated medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest.

 

Graduate Profile

Ganesa Wegienka

Ganesa Wegienka
Graduation: 1994
Major: Mathematics

For Ganesa Wegienka ’94, life is about enjoying what she does on a daily basis.

As an epidemiologist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, where she studies disease causation and risk factors, she is happily living up to her mantra.