International DDT Conference
With leadership students hosted at Alma College a conference bringing together world experts on health and environmental impacts of pesticide exposure. Note the "Pine River Statement" that came out of this conference and was published in Environmental Health Perspectives in 2009.
Alma College is among the top 40 baccalaureate institutions in the country for the percentage of students who choose to study abroad, according to a report published by the Institute for International Education. Among Alma’s graduates in the 2009–10 academic year, 61.4 percent participated in study abroad, which ranked 37th in the nation.
Mercy Bourdet
Graduation: 2014
Major: Anthropology
A Posey Global Fellowship gave Mercy Bourdet the opportunity to make her lifelong dream of traveling to Africa a reality. It also changed her life.
“I taught classes at a school in Ghana that is supported by Literacy Beyond Borders,” she says. “Though I really enjoyed teaching, I realized interacting with the people and learning about their daily lives was my true passion. Anthropology is what I’m meant to major in.”
