Faculty List

Catherine Fobes

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Awards, Honors, Recognitions

  • Barlow Award in Faculty Excellence, 2011
  • Outstanding Faculty in Social Sciences Award, Alma College, 2009, 2006, 2003, 2001
  • Omicron Delta Kappa Faculty Excellence Award, Alma College, 2007, 2004, 2002, 2001
  • Discovering Vocation Course Development Grant ($3,000), "Women, Work, and Calling," 2006
  • Joseph H. Fichter Award, Association for Sociologists in Religion, 2005
  • Discovering Vocation Faculty Research Grant ($20,000), "Discovering Vocation in Campus Ministry," The Lilly Project at Alma College, 2004-05
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, Alma College, 2002

 

Alma College’s early acceptance agreement with the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine recognizes the College’s strengths in science and health education. The agreement reserves two admissions slots per year for Alma College pre-med graduates.

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Graduate Profile

Dr. Dave Sherwood
Graduation: 1985
Major: Biology and Art

Dave Sherwood was helping his brother pack when he came across an old paper from high school. Written when he was 17, it described what he thought his life would be like in 15 years.

He was shocked to find the paper actually described his current life.

Sherwood works as a doctor in the small mountain community of Ouray, Colo., where he lives with his wife and three children.

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