Students gave a total of $196.88 to the 1844 Society’s Ransom Dunn scholarship on Dec. 4th during a 1844 Society fundraiser to celebrating the day of Hillsdale College’s founding in 1844. The society set up a table in the Grewcock Student Union with hot chocolate and coffee, and a total of 17 students made contributions,...
Senior Michaela Miller spent her summer researching biofilm growth of Rhodobacter sphaeroides — an environmental microorganism with history as complex as its spelling. She presented a poster summarizing her project Nov. 4 at the Western Michigan Regional Undergraduate Science Research Conference at Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Over the summer, Miller spent...
Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease that results from the death of dopamine-releasing neurons in the brain, affects more than 10 million people worldwide, according to the Parkinson’s Foundation. Although the disease includes a variety of symptoms, patients often experience shaking or tremors, slowness of movement, or trouble balancing. For the past two summers, senior Taylor...
Walls of women run the flat circuit, yelling at each other, and fans in body paint and underwear cheer their team on, and sometimes jeer at competitors. Through the commotion, senior Hannah MacIntyre, Hillsdale’s highest-ranking runner and first four-time All-American, emerged fourth in the nation, running what coach Andrew Towne called probably the best race...
A swimmer never wants to see bubbles float across her lane — that means a competitor is ahead. But bubbles were all the swim team could focus on as they labored toward third place of 14 at the three-day Phoenix Fall Classic held at the University of Chicago Nov. 17-19. “Our coach had this little...