BARLOW TROPHY GOES TO WEIDMAN’S NEEB
College’s most prestigious award for graduating senior
An Isabella County woman has been named the recipient of Alma College’s most prestigious award for a graduating senior.
Barlow Trophy winner Taylor Neeb of Weidman was one of three finalists for the award, which was established in 1949 by Dr. Joel Barlow, a 1929 honors graduate of Alma College, to recognize academic achievement for students in the top 10 percent of their class, as well as contributions to the campus and community.
Neeb was named the winner of the Barlow Trophy April 4 at the Wright Leppien Opera House, as the culmination of an event highlighting academic achievements from the 2023-24 academic year.
Neeb has used her Alma education to benefit the lives of students, staff and faculty, as well as vulnerable populations around the globe. Through the Posey Global Fellowship program, Neeb has traveled to Sierra Leone four times, as well as India and Tanzania. Among her many activities in Sierra Leone, Neeb launched Soul Salone, a project focused on the development of a post-partum screening project to lower maternal death rates of women.
Neeb is involved in a number of clubs and organizations on campus, highlighted by her role as Student Congress president this past year. She has served as a senior resident assistant, student representative on the Alma College Board of Trustees, vice president of the
Premed Club, Center for College and Community Engagement assistant and lead mentor on the Model United Nations team.
A neuroscience major, Neeb is currently working on her senior thesis, which explores how menstruation experiences impact academic performance and how factors like access and belonging among cis-gendered and trans/non-binary students might impact these outcomes.
A member of the Alma College faculty who nominated