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Microscopes provide peerless lens for research

Among Hillsdale College’s numerous academic bragging points, the science department boasts two specialized microscopes used in student and faculty research. Both the atomic force microscope and the scanning electron microscope provide highly detailed images for very small samples. Senior David Galginaitis used the scanning electron microscope, or SEM, to complete his biology research project, which...

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Sunny Wilkinson, and all that jazz

Jazz vocalists and piano accompaniment echo through the Howard Music Building as artist in residence Sunny Wilkinson instructs students in the master class. Wilkinson, who started her relationship with Hillsdale College three years ago, gives voice lessons for vocalists involved in jazz combos, and also instructs monthly master classes. The master class provides a setting...

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Alternaprint opens April 1: Hillsdale natives return from Chicago to re-locate business

Alternaprint, a combined custom screen printing and comic book store, will open on April 1. Located on North Howell Street, the screen printing and custom shirt-design business will take over the storefront formerly occupied by Threads, between The Hunt Club and Jilly Beans Coffee House. Andrew and Catie Gibbs, Alternaprint owners and Hillsdale natives, moved...

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Enactus develops projects at ODK reception

Local business owners and community leaders met with campus leaders to strengthen ties between the city and college at a networking reception hosted by the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honorary Saturday at the college. Enactus, one of the student groups represented at the event, used the reception to develop one of its primary projects of...

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Car Maintenance

After scraping off frozen windows, hoisting piles of snow, and running five minutes behind schedule, there is nothing more disheartening than the sound of the car engine as it coughs, sputters, and dies. William Whorley, the director of campus security and emergency management, recently addressed these predicaments of winter drivers in a campus-wide email. Whorley...