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Physics students take first field trip to Thorlabs Optics Facility
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Physics students take first field trip to Thorlabs Optics Facility

Assistant Professor of Physics Michael Tripepi took 10 Hillsdale College students on a field trip to Thorlabs Ultrafast Optoelectronics facility in Ann Arbor last weekend. Thorlabs, Inc. produces photonics equipment used in research and biomedicine, with this Michigan facility specializing in high-speed optoelectronic products. Freshman Henry Lennington said the tour made concepts about lasers easy...

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State Republicans urge 2024 DeSantis presidential run

  State Sen. Joseph Bellino and 17 other state GOP leaders signed a letter to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in December urging him to run for president in 2024. “Trump brings out so much hate from people within the party as well as from liberals,” Bellino said. “The moderate Democrats and Republicans are the...

Hillsdale’s two degrees of separation: Applied Math Club studies social connections on campus
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Hillsdale’s two degrees of separation: Applied Math Club studies social connections on campus

Students gathered in fall 2022 for Concert on the Quad. Courtesy | Hannah Cote Have you ever peered out from a packed Sizzle line in Saga and felt as though you knew just about everyone in the crowd?  According to the math club, you probably do. In a study conducted last semester called Degrees of...

Faculty impress the community during recital
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Faculty impress the community during recital

Music faculty performed in Christ Chapel last Friday. Courtesy | Ethan Greb Last week, three music professors at Hillsdale College played a selection of music for a faculty recital. Christopher McCourry, Brad Blackham, and Emily Douglass performed several musical arrangements combining the trumpet, piano, and voice in the recital on Friday. According to McCourry, a...

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Hillsdale Alumna Joins Athletic Department

After traveling the country and living out of their Jeep for six months, Hillsdale alumna Regan Monnin, and her husband Jordan, traded the road for rural life and settled down in Hillsdale, Michigan.  Monnin is one of the newest additions to the Hillsdale College Athletics department. Working as a community and media relations associate, Regan...