Spring brings ‘fireworks’ blooms in arboretum
Like pieces gathered into a collection of art, the Slayton Arboretum has dozens of different trees in its collections. Hillsdale is home to many…
Applied Math Club trains students in data analysis and programming
How can email use an algorithm to sort out spam? How can a math model predict traffic flow changes with the introduction of self-driving…
Student examines link between ticks and disease
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…
Water regulations affect California conservation
Too often, governmental regulation forces a decision between the environment and the economy — but that doesn’t have to be the case, according to…
Professor’s research chronicles lions’ genetics
Many scientists believe that the next generation will be the last to see lions in zoos, according to Professor of Biology Daniel York.
York…
Fisk Museum adds tortoise, ‘hog-like’ oreodont
Two new fossils are on display at the Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History. These latest additions to the museum are a “hog-like”…
Michigan within possible area of spacecraft re-entry
Southern Michigan is in one of two narrow latitudinal bands where any remnants of the Tiangong-1 spacecraft might land when they re-enter the atmosphere,…
Instagram, robots, and the human mind
Hillsdale professors combined their technical knowledge and cultural aptitude to address the topic of the Lyceum Friday Forum on March 16, about technology and…
Hillsdale students present research at national science conference
In a chapel at Evangel University in Missouri, senior Randi Block stood in front of a crowd and spoke. Her voice echoed against the…
Student tests potential treatments for neurological disorder
Senior Delaney Lehman spent a summer finding a compound that could be synthesized to cure Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a mutation that causes severe handicaps, in…
