(33), and Communication (28).
The 144-acre (0.58 km2) Whitehouse Nature Center at Albion works with public schools and the community. It features six miles of trails, 400 plant species, almost 170 bird species, 25 acres of oak-hickory and flood-plain forest, a tall-grass prairie and spring in the Adele D. Whitehouse Wildflower Garden, an arboretum of Michigan trees and shrubs, 34 acres of farmland and research projects, and an interpretative building.
Albion College Astronomical Observatory was built in 1883-84 with encouragement from Samuel Dickie, later the college president.
Since 1990 one student went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, three were Goldwater Scholars, four Truman Scholars and seventeen Fulbright Scholars.
== Astronomical observatory ==
Albion College is home to the Prentiss M. Brown Honors Center & Astronomical Observatory, named after Prentiss M. Brown, a U.S. Senator and a U.S. Representative who graduated from Albion College in 1911. The observatory is recognized as a Michigan State Historical …
