Research, a visit to Franconia, and prosthetics make up just one professor’s sabbatical months. Fred Yaniga, associate professor of German, is researching and writing several papers during his sabbatical this fall. “A sabbatical is often years in the making,” Yaniga said. “I know when my sabbatical is coming, and I start planning what I’m going...
College means “partnership,” but Professor of Philosophy Ian Church’s academic genealogy project highlights a more “familial” side of learning. Over the course of the past five years, Church has compiled an academic family tree tracing back student-adviser connections to the twelfth century. Church received his doctorate in 2012 from the St. Andrews and Stirling Graduate...
Last weekend, a few friends and I drove more than an hour from campus to visit the small town of Shipshewana, Indiana. The draw? Shipshewana is the third largest Amish community in North America, and invites visitors to shop, eat, and learn about its way of life. While the delicious pies and home-cooked comfort food...
In this Quick Hits, Professor of History Wilfred McClay talks arts, jazz, and peanut butter. What is your favorite class you have taught? I’ve only been here for two years and have basically only taught the heritage courses — so I’d say American Heritage. What is your favorite work of art? It would be a...
When Laboratory Director Douglas Dobrozsi studied skin fungus, he didn’t expect to use it in a beer competition at the Hillsdale County Fair. “I became interested after actually doing a long technical project at work, studying the action of antifungal drugs in which I was culturing a yeast-like fungus that is on everyone’s skin...