Alma College News

The annual indoor show of Alma Collegea s Kiltie Marching Band will feature music by the American rock band Toto along with a set from the popular "Raiders of the Lost Ark" movies.

Vegetable oil isna t just for cooking at Alma College. Chemistry Assistant Professor Sean Mo and a team of students are working with campus food services, the organization Students United for Nature, and the physical plant to convert waste vegetable oil to biodiesel made up of fatty acid methyl ester.

A celebration of dance, including ballet set to music by Fredric Chopin, a work choreographed by professional dancer Kristin Bender Polizzi, and a tribute to Matt Boles, an area student who died unexpectedly earlier this year, will highlight the annual fall performance of the Alma College Dance Company.

A former U.S. Army Ranger whose heroic efforts during the historic battle in Mogadishu, Somalia, in the early 1990s were chronicled in the hit movie a oeBlack Hawk Downa will be the featured speaker as Alma College commemorates Veterans Day.

Scots Volleyball headed to the MIAA Semi-Finals after defeating Kalamazoo 3-1 The Alma College Volleyball team hosted Kalamazoo College on Tuesday in a MIAA First Round contest and came away with a 3-1 victory.

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Alma College students are annual high achievers in the national Model United Nations competition.

The 10,000-square-foot Eddy Music Center opened in 1975 on the private, liberal arts college in Alma, Mich.

A stroll through the Eddy Music Center at Alma College typically finds percussionists practicing in hallways, instruments jammed in practice rooms, and generally cramped conditions.

Internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and actor Claudia Stevens is coming to Alma College to perform the critically acclaimed story of an elderly concentration camp musician who performed in the womena s orchestra at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

What began as an art project for a summer practicum course turned into an unforgettable memory for mother-and-son Sue and Andrew Wright.

Voters will choose city commissioners in two districts on Nov. 3, in races where personalities could outweigh platforms.

Author and poet Anne-Marie Oomen, recipient of the Michigan Notable Book Award for Pulling Down the Barn , is coming to Alma College to read from her works.

Among the 17 academic service-learning classes being taught this fall at Alma College is Joanne Gilbert's First Year Seminar on Performance Advocacy in which students serve at the Community CafA© and interview the participants in preparation for a presentation during National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week.

The first thing you notice about Alejandro Orellana is his big smile. It seems to stretch from ear to ear.

The Corporation for National and Community Service named Alma College to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in both 2008 and 2009 for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth.

Two new employees will be introduced to West Shore Community College's Board of Trustees Monday afternoon.

Dana Aspinall's first venture into teaching a service learning class has resulted in a partnership with Masonic Pathways for the production of a medieval history play as performed by the residents of the senior living facility.

Alma College boasts a 13-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a liberal arts approach to undergraduate education, 28 academic majors, self-designed programs of emphasis, pre-professional programs in law and medicine, and an intensive Spring Term that provides opportunities for innovative courses, travel classes, research and internships.

Author Mary Ruefle, a prolific writer of poetry and prose, will read from her works during a visit to Alma College.