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.

 

Graduate Profile

Katie Umbarger

Katie Umbarger
Graduation: 2011
Major: Elementary Education

When Katie Umbarger ’11 walked through the door to higher education as a first-generation college student, she was supported every step of the way.

“Alma took me under its wing and guided me through the process of entering college,” she says. “The concept of college seemed pretty surreal, but I was blessed with an amazing admissions counselor who helped me through everything. Alma was like finding a second family.”