Activities Planned for Community Appreciation Day
Alma College celebrates community with family-friendly activities and the awarding of the sixth annual Community Service Award prior to and during the Scots’ Sept. 22 home football game against the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
Posted: Wed, September 12th, 2012 at 10:49AM
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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
Rachel Burckhardt
Graduation: 2013
Major: Biology
Scientists have estimated 50 to 75 trillion cells make up the human boy, but Rachel Burckhardt ’13 can find even more reasons why biology is the right major for her.
The Waterford senior’s soft spot for the small things is anything but microscopic.
“There’s a lot of stuff going on that the celllar level that you don’t realize is happening, and I find it interesting to see how all the little workings of a cell make up a person,” she says.