Grand Marshal Family Has Deep Roots in Alma
The Skinner family gives the term “true Scot” a whole new meaning. A member of the family has attended Alma College at some point during every decade since the 1930s.
Posted: Mon, October 1st, 2012 at 7:56AM
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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.
Faculty Profile
Dr. Eric Calhoun
Departments: Biology
Eric Calhoun knew he wanted to be a teacher when he was an undergraduate at Truman State University in Missouri.
“I started tutoring biology and chemistry students as a sophomore, and I just couldn’t get enough of it,” the assistant professor of biology says.