Organized the Math Challenge for High School Students
The High School Math Challenge is a problem-of-the-month competition sponsored by the Alma College Math Dept. For the past three years we have be sending monthly problems to high schools throughout the state. In 2004-05, we sent problems to 190 high schools. We received solutions from 255 different students from 47 different high schools.
Alma encourages its students to look beyond Michigan’s boundaries. The Posey Global Leadership Scholarship provides opportunities for Alma College students to travel anywhere in the world and complete a self-designed project. Alma students have completed projects on topics ranging from teaching to public policy, in places from the Philippines to South Africa.
Dr. Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund
Departments: Sociology and Anthropology
Thanks to a Superman cartoon in which a mummy came to life, Dr. Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund first became interested in archaeology at age 6. When her grandfather took her to The University Museum in her hometown of Philadelphia to see real mummies, she says she knew there was no turning back.
“Archaeology is the cultural anthropology of the past, so there is a natural link between the study of living populations and the lives of their ancestors,” she says. “I find that the study of other cultures, ways of life, and belief systems opens windows to the world I would never have otherwise experienced by merely reading or traveling.”
