Faculty List

Karen L Ball, Ph.D.

Chair & Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology & Health Science
Joined Alma College Faculty in 1995
EHS / MCE 118
(989) 463-7127
Office Hours: MF 10:30 - 12, T Th 10 - 11:30

Education

  • Ph.D. Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • B.A. Exercise and Health Science, Alma College

Research Interests

Muscle Physiology/Biochemistry

Directed Student Presentations and Achievements

Recent Presentations

  • Jillian Gettel, Brandon Smith, Scott Barriger, and Karen Ball.  "Effects of Cystoseira Canariensis on C2C12 Cell Behavior In Vitro."  Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine.  Denver, Colorado.  June, 2006.
  • Patrick Furlong and Karen Ball (copresenters).  "Power to Heal? The Nevirapine Crisis and the Revival of AIDS Denialism in South Africa."  African Studies Association.  Washington, D.C..  November 2005.

Service to the College

  • Advisor the the EHS Honor Society
  • Faculty Athletics Representative
  • Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

 

In December 2011, Alma College students, faculty and staff designed and hosted a conference in Washington, D.C., on the 500th anniversary of human rights advocacy. Earlier in the year, Alma College became one of the first undergraduate colleges in the United States to belong to the International Criminal Court Student Network, joining Duke University School of Law, The University of Cambridge and other prestigious institutions in a global community that connects students who share an interest in the ICC.

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Faculty Profile

Dr. Andrew Thall
Departments: Mathematics and Computer Science

Dr. Andrew Thall is a man of many talents — as an undergraduate at Kalamazoo College, he majored in mathematics, but was only interested in pure mathematics theory. After college, he worked as a baker, and then in a photo lab, before going back to school part-time.

“When I began my graduate work at Carolina, I happened to wander into the computer science building,” the associate professor of mathematics and computer science says. “This was when they were designing their own graphics supercomputers and just starting to work with virtual reality. It was then I decided to study computers.”

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