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Peggy A. Thelen, Ph. D.

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Awards, Honors, Recognitions

Michigan Campus Compact Venture Grant

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Awarded $3,364 to create an after school program for a local early childhood learning center. Partnering with business students in Management, early childhood students in Introduction to Early Childhood will create activities which support cognitive, physical, and social development of children in Kindergarten and First grades. Students will also organize and chaperon enrichment field trips to Michigan Masonic Pathways and Alma College.

 

Alma College students have the ability to design their own area of academic concentration—with the assistance of a faculty advisor—to meet specific educational or career goals. In recent years, students have graduated with Programs of Emphasis majors in such fields as arts management, archaeology and anthropology, environmental policy and community advocacy, Foreign Service and international law, and music technology and digital media.

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Prof. Carrie Parks-Kirby

Prof. Carrie Parks-Kirby
Departments: Art and Design

The work of Carrie Parks-Kirby, professor of art and design, reflects an ongoing interest in historical, architectural, and ceramic forms while exploring contemporary themes through personal, often autobiographical, imagery.

“I have felt deeply the influence of figures made for the tombs of ancient Chinese and Japanese nobles: Haniwa courtiers and farmers, Han dwellings and processions, T’ang horses and Q’uin soldiers,” she said. “The eloquent gestures and facial expressions of Mayan and Olmec figures and the serene dignity of Etruscan terra cotta couples never fail to move me.”

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