Former Blackwater CEO left the Naval Academy for the more principled academics of Hillsdale, served the community as a firefighter, loved learning. In 1989, when student Erik Prince of Holland, Michigan moved in across the street from Professor of Religion Don Westblade, he and his wife mistakenly believed Prince was a wealthy European descending from...
Year: 2014
HEART Students Receive Training
Student clubs tackle social media
Click. Delete. Repeat. Your student email inbox is full of generic campus messages. Most are probably deleted before being read. Some linger in the inbox for months, unopened and disregarded. So how is a student group to get out its message? The answer is social media, said senior Nathan Brand, the social media coordinator for...
HEART: Students help keep campus secure
Yesterday, Hillsdale Emergency Action Response Team went downtown to city hall to receive training from the fire department in the areas of natural gas and carbon monoxide leaks as well as power line safety. With recent events of both a gas leak and a down line earlier this year, members see the information and training...
Virology returns to Hillsdale
Assistant Professor of Biology Silas Johnson, a new professor at Hillsdale, is teaching the biology department’s virology course this year. Johnson, a Hillsdale alumnus, recently completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan Medical School, during which time he studied retroviruses. This research has given Johnson a cutting-edge perspective on the recent advances in...

