At the age of 18, Gary Wolfram found himself alongside his foreman and a handful of California Department of Corrections inmates on work release, caught in the middle of the Burrows Valley wildfire, as manzanita bushes exploded around him. “Your shirt could catch on fire, so we had to line up, and when the guy’s...
When you came to college, you probably found yourself with more control over what you eat then you’ve ever had before. While the idea of the “freshman fifteen” may be a myth (studies have shown that freshman often gain weight, but less than 15 pounds), it is true that you could, theoretically, walk into a...
A significant number of Hillsdale alumni return post-graduation to work for the college. Here, three professors– Sonja Bindus, Matthew Gaetano, and Katharine Taylor– look back on their student days at the ‘Dale. Sonja Bindus, ’92 Head of Early Childhood Education, Director of The Mary Proctor Randall Preschool What is one thing that has changed on...
Although the solar eclipse in August received a great deal of national attention, few people were aware of an exceedingly larger astronomical event that occurred the same week. The event was the long-expected detection of a neutron star merger, announced by members of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory on Oct. 16. Assistant Professor of Physics...
When I decided to work and live on a communal farm that produces organic vegetables in the summer of 2016, I anticipated finding my vocation in a state of pastoral bliss. Instead, I found humility. I will be honest, the decision to move to the farm was fueled by reading a lot of agrarian literature...