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Patrick J Furlong, Ph.D.

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Recent Presentations

  • "Indigenous `Africans' and Transnational `Pan-Netherlanders': `Re-Constructing' Afrikaner Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa."  African Studies Association.  Washington DC.  19 November 2011.
  • "Constructing an `Indigenous' Identity: The Case of Afrikaner Nationalism in Modern South Africa."  Great Lakes History Conference.  Grand Rapids, Michigan.  14 November 2009.
  • "After the Fall: Reassessing Afrikaner Nationalism in South Africa."  African Studies Association.  Chicago, Illinois.  14 November 2008.
  • "An Ambiguous Colonial Legacy: `Constitutionalist' `Christian' Nationalism in Ireland and South Africa in the 1930s and 1940s."  Great Lakes History Conference.  Grand Rapids, Michigan.  27 October 2007.
  • "Afrikaner Nationalism and the European Right."  American Historical Association.  Atlanta, Georgia.  7 January 2007.
  • "Liberation Struggles and Post-Revolutionary Politics in South Africa: The National Party and the African National Congress Compared."  Great Lakes History Conference.  Grand Rapids, Michigan.  20 October 2006.
  • Patrick J. Furlong (with Karen L. Ball).  "The Nevirapine Crisis, the Revival of Denialism, and the Continued Politicization of AIDS in South Africa."  African Studies Association Annual Meeting.  Washington DC.  November 2005.
  • "Allies at War? Britain and the `Southern African Front' in World War II."  South African Historical Society Biennial Conference.  Cape Town, South Africa.  June 2005.

 

Bob Devaney, a 1939 graduate of Alma College, went on to become known as one of the greatest coaches in collegiate football history. In his 11 years as head coach at Nebraska, Devaney produced 11 winning seasons with two national championships. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1981. At Alma he played end and was the Scots’ Most Valuable Player in 1938.

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Dr. Timothy Keeton

Dr. Timothy Keeton
Departments: Biology

Biology Associate Professor Tim Keeton has been working with cloning for decades.

“My graduate work in the 1980s was in a very hard-core gene cloning lab,” he says, “but I wanted to use my cloning skills and apply them to a more — for me — interesting field.”

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