Moving to Tanzania, Cindy (Cardwell) Fast, ’08, expected to see a lot of new sights—but one related to her expertise was especially surprising. “At our land mine training center, every single rat developed this behavior of trotting behind their trainer without any signaling or harnesses attached,” marvels Fast (on right in photo, alongside colleague Kate Sears Webb, ’16). “The rats aren’t trained to do this and are literally free to go wherever they want, but they choose to scurry along behind their trainer.”
Sarah Mondale’s film about the tough questions facing public education, schools of choice and charter schools is making the rounds across the country and around the world, and now it will be shown in Albion—on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. at the downtown Bohm Theatre. Its message, she believes, resonates with everyone.
Renowned psychologist and author Dacher Keltner and Los Angeles First Lady Amy Elaine Wakeland, ’91, will present the Joseph S. Calvaruso Keynote Address and the Elkin R. Isaac Alumni Lecture, respectively, as part of the 2018 Elkin R. Isaac Student Research Symposium, Albion College’s annual two-day celebration of student research and scholarship. Wakeland speaks Wednesday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Norris Center’s Towsley Lecture Hall, while Keltner concludes the symposium Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. in Goodrich Chapel.
Events going from history to hot topics mark this year’s Women’s History Month celebrations at Albion College. These events, which begin March 15, are free and open to the public.
Rick Straughen, ’03, thought he was going into a career as a computer programmer. But he changed his mind at Albion College and is now impacting the lives of high school students in Michigan’s Utica Community Schools as an award-winning computer science and math teacher.
Eight Britons will be honored at an event on Friday, April 20, in Upper Baldwin Hall—four will receive the College’s Distinguished Alumni Award, and four will receive the College’s Young Alumni Award.
Personal histories of some beloved Albion educators merged with a national documentary earlier this week in a community-centered conclusion to Albion College’s 2018 Black History Month celebration. On February 27, Tell Them We Are Rising, a film about historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) was shown at the downtown Bohm Theatre; it was followed by a “talk back” from three local HBCU alumni and Albion Public Schools educators.
Some 70 Albion College students gathered around The Rock on the evening of February 27 for a somber, emotional candlelight vigil in honor of the victims of the February 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Zerick Dill, ’20, is Albion’s first recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP) Fellowship. The award provides Dill with a 10-week internship this summer at one of the country’s top research institutions, along with a stipend, housing and travel expenses.
