Although the solar eclipse in August received a great deal of national attention, few people were aware of an exceedingly larger astronomical event that occurred the same week. The event was the long-expected detection of a neutron star merger, announced by members of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory on Oct. 16. Assistant Professor of Physics...
The Liberty Princess Company recently added an entirely new set of characters to its repertoire, and they don’t wear high heels. The program’s founder and director, Gianna Marchese ’17, said that she decided to add the new cosmic characters from one of childhood’s favorite hero movies after Our Child’s Advocate, a Michigan-based foster care and...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded researchers the Nobel Prize in Physics last week for the first detection of gravitational waves, thus confirming one of Albert Einstein’s century-old predictions. “It’s kind of surreal to me that it actually happened,” said Ryan Lang, assistant professor of physics with academic ties to the award-winning researchers...
The Hillsdale County Veteran of the Year committee presented its 65th annual Veteran of the Year award to local veteran Russell McLogan, who received a Purple Heart award after being wounded in the Phillipines during World War II. The committee also honored local veteran Gerald Chase, who served a total of 23 years with the...
Several Hillsdale county residents have raised concerns about the Hillsdale County Fair’s decision to replace local employees with outsourced security. Starting last year, the fair’s manager, Mark Williams, said he began employing ADA Security to man the fair’s gates instead of hiring local residents, as the fair had done in the past. He said hiring...