Often taken for granted is the supercomputer that rests in everyone’s pockets. Not many remember a day when a real map had to be used, when writing letters was the only way to contact a distant friend, or when real people had to perform any of the tasks that a smartphone can complete at the...
Qianying “Jennie” Zhang is the newest addition to Hillsdale College’s business and economics department. She is an assistant professor of finance and economics and teaches two sections of quantitative analysis this semester. Zhang was born in Shanghai, China and earned her bachelor’s degree in economics at East China Normal University in 2008. It was...
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....
The physics department is bringing back two space-related classes in the fall. Cosmology, taught by Assistant Professor of Physics Ryan Lang, will cover the history of the universe. Associate Professor of Physics Paul Hosmer will teach Meteorology, the study of weather. Neither course has been taught for several years. The department is bringing back...
Ticks stopped bothering senior biology major Randi Block after she had to collect and crack them open for a year’s worth of research. Block studied the American dog tick as a carrier of rickettsia, a pathogenic bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Even though she said ticks disgusted her at the beginning of the...