Our program showed how NMC and the Water Studies Program continue to expand on that proposition. NMC President Tim Nelson introduced speaker Hans VanSumeran, Director of NMC’s Great Lakes Water Studies Institute. VanSumeran appeared before us nearly two years ago to introduce us to the work the Institute was undertaking at the time as he was settling into his role with the College.
Since that time VanSumeran has been very active, not only locally, building and strengthening the program, but also throughout the State of Michigan working with the other major Universities extending their reach and NMC’s.
He and the other program principals and students are working regionally, nationally and internationally from the Great Lakes to Washington D.C. with the F.B.I. as well as other alphabet soup organizations and even to the Pacific Rim on major explorations and research from the Oceans to the Yellow River in China.
The connections that VanSumeran has made allow him to leverage many aspects of the water sector, both industrial and scientific making the program here in Traverse City on of the finest freshwater study centers in the Nation and World in its breadth of resource capability. This puts the program and NMC at the forefront of and education cycle that is feeding an industry hungry for new talent.
There is growth and great potential here, and VanSumeran and NMC are positioning themselves for the future. It is an obvious place for investment on the part of a college that is always looking for ways to make and keep themselves viable. NMC is certainly a college that has broken the stereotype of the typical Community College repeatedly from its earliest days. The Water Studies Program gives truth to that assertion. INFO CLICK HERE: HTTP://nmc.edu/water
Rotarian Tim Nelson
Hans VanSumeren