A significant number of Hillsdale alumni return post-graduation to work for the college. Here, three professors– Sonja Bindus, Matthew Gaetano, and Katharine Taylor– look back on their student days at the ‘Dale. Sonja Bindus, ’92 Head of Early Childhood Education, Director of The Mary Proctor Randall Preschool What is one thing that has changed on...
Author: Kasia Ignatik (Katarzyna Ignatik)
Governor to visit campus
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts will speak at Hillsdale on Nov. 6 on “Taming the Leviathan: Reducing the Size and Scope of Government.” The Omicron Delta Kappa leadership honorary and the President’s Office organized the 12pm luncheon lecture, which will take place in the Searle Center. Students were asked to RSVP for the talk and...
Club hosts film contest
Anybody who wields a camera or phone can try for free coffee by making a spooky movie this Halloween. Hillsdale’s Film and Production Club is hosting a horror film contest for students, with a first prize of $15 to local coffee shop Rough Draft. Senior Kayla Stetzel, president of the Film and Production Club,...
Farmers and finance: Student interns in rural Nepal
Where junior Tavia Vitkauskas worked over the summer, local kids would call her “the white one.” For some, she was the first white person they had ever seen. Vitkauskas interned in the South Asian country of Nepal for five weeks. She worked with a company called Adhunik Agricultural Cooperative Ltd., which assists small local farms....
Wisconsin native studies heat-shock proteins in dairy cows
When senior Abigail Engel designed her thesis project for her biology major, the inspiration for her research originated close to home —Wisconsin. “My research is about quantifying heat-shock proteins in dairy cattle,” Engel said. “I was interested in how much of a role genetics plays in how well cattle deal with heat-shock.” Engel, who...