Anthropology/Sociology Major and Minor

When Ellie Debo ’22, began her internship with Central Michigan University (CMU) Health, she didn’t know exactly what she wanted to do – and neither did they. CMU Health President/CEO Sam Shaheen ‘88 set up a “rotating” internship for Debo to let her explore the operations, finance, legal, and human resources departments.

Tall slender strands of wild rice rising out of the Nottawa Creek are helping to nourish a partnership between Albion College and the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi tribe in Michigan’s Calhoun County.

Cameron Voss ’20, chose Albion in order to participate in the Holocaust Studies Service-Learning Project, which for her was a “life changing” week of service restoring a Jewish cemetery in Poland.

Read about Dr. Meghan Farley Webb’s work in Guatemala and a recent grant she is helping to administer from the U.S. Department of Labor.

While focusing on freshwater macroinvertebrates, Jess Garcia-Lopez, ’22, is also adding knowledge around wild rice growing in the Whitehouse Nature Center.

From uncovering old documents to gathering oral histories from alumni, the Build Albion Fellow’s FURSCA project adds to her experience gained as a student employee in the College archives.

The 500-year-old artifact was given to the College as a gift in 2003. It will join what experts have concluded is its twin in a museum in the Chiapas region following a formal repatriation ceremony April 13 in Goodrich Chapel.

Sociology