Over the summer, senior Natalie Meckel was admitted to a research program, spending the summer crystallizing proteins for neutron diffraction experiments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take part in the 10-week Redox Biology Center Summer Research (REU) Program. “I’d planned on doing research ever since I was a freshman as part of my...
After a nine month, multi-departmental trial run, Hillsdale Information Technology Services (ITS) has officially integrated Box as a campus-wide software solution. “Box is essentially a cloud content service provider just like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive,” ITS Systems Administrator Mark Janowiak said. “It enables a lot more features as far as collaboration...
With the retirement of Hillsdale’s Professor of Biology Bob Miller this past spring, Sang-Chul Nam has been hired as new associate professor of biology, teaching Biology 101 and Developmental Biology this semester. After a process involving the weighing of many candidates, Professor of Biology David Houghton said that Nam is “one of the most qualified...
Jordan Nied was at college for almost a full year before he realized he had attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. “I always felt like I was not living up to my full potential,” Nied said. “It often felt like no matter how well I was doing in school, I wasn’t doing as well as I could do.”...
Five Hillsdale College students spent five weeks at the end of their summer digging trenches in Hayden Park, soldering cables, programming software, and analyzing data for a special radio astronomy project. Under the supervision of Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch, the group constructed a radio telescope antenna array, called the Low-Frequency All-Sky Monitor, that...