During the ACUI Midwest Regional competition on Oct. 13 and 14, the Hillsdale Shotgun Team faced off against 19 college teams and emerged victorious with a massive margin of 35 targets separating them from the second place team, Oklahoma State University. “At nationals in years past we have only won by 6-7 targets,” assistant coach...
This past summer, senior biology major Marina Bostelman conducted neurology research about neurofibromatosis during a ten-week research program for the Amgen Scholars Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Bostelman and her lab group’s summer research project focused on a tumor called optic pathway glioma, which develops in children with neurofibromatosis. It appears in...
“ONE, Point behind-front-behind, TWO, behind-front-behind, THREE, behind-front-behind” Highland Dance instructor Alison Plemmons calls to her class of beginner Highland dancers. Five dancers hop lightly on their right foot, concurrently tapping their left foot in front and behind their right leg in response to Plemmons’ commands. Plemmons has been teaching Highland dance, a Celtic...
On Saturday, the Hillsdale Shotgun team hosted the second American Trap Association shoot with 100 American Trap targets. Thirty-seven total shooters, comprised of high school, collegiate and elder participants were present. Junior Lucas Pieraccini had the highest team score with 98 targets, and was succeeded by freshmen Tommy Rodgers, with 97 targets, and Anthony LaMacchia,...
More than a century after one of the original residents scribbled his name and the year “1883” onto one of the attic walls, Robert Eden is leaving his own mark on the Victorian-era residence. Four different homeowners have resided in the house since it was first built in 1880, entirely by hand. Eden, a Hillsdale...