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New biology professor emphasizes real-world applications
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New biology professor emphasizes real-world applications

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...

Faculty, students construct Low-Frequency All-Sky Monitor in Hayden Park
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Faculty, students construct Low-Frequency All-Sky Monitor in Hayden Park

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...

Music, microphones, and mathematics: Student to present research project
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Music, microphones, and mathematics: Student to present research project

Music meets math in senior Justin Rogers’ research. For his senior project, Rogers is attempting to make a computer program that can listen to a tone and identify its note and what instrument made it. Although it is an area most closely related with voice-to-text and speech recognition, such software would have other uses, too....

iFeel Alive Labs combat student stress with games
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iFeel Alive Labs combat student stress with games

Pursed-lip breathing may be the solution to surviving hell week stress. The psychology department recently installed new technology that helps students learn how to control their stress. The technology, a combination of a noninvasive sensors and computer software that reads the sensors’ data, was originally brought to the school for undergraduate research. Now, it is...

Coding on campus: Students, professors use computer programming for studies, research
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Coding on campus: Students, professors use computer programming for studies, research

Approximately 120 students on campus have worked on coding projects or used computer programming in one of their classes over the last two years, according to mathematics department chairman Thomas Treloar. “Over the last two years, we are easily serving a larger number of students with programming opportunities than at any other time in the...