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Edward C Lorenz, Ph.D.

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Recent Presentations

Ben Roberts ('12) and Anita Hemlich ('12), Jane Keon, Carol Layman, and Gary Smith.  "Reversing Environmental-Health Policy Mistakes."  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Community Involvement Conference.  Seattle, Washington.  August 19, 2009.

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Described efforts of Pine River Task Force and Alma College to secure reversal of policy decisions that have blocked a systematic health and environmental response to contamination from Velsicol Chemical facility in St. Louis, Michigan.

 

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.

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Student Profile

Alejandro Orellana

Alejandro Orellana
Graduation: 2013
Major: New Media Studies and Business Administration

Pennsylvania junior Alejandro Orellana’s education at Alma College has been a lesson in expecting the unexpected.

Though he has known he should major in business since eighth grade, not until this year did he decide to add a new media studies major to the mix. He says his newfound interest in graphic design and technology will be useful for a career in advertising.

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