Hillsdale’s Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History, created by Daniel M. Fisk in 1874 and rebuilt in 2010, hosts thousands of specimens spanning several centuries. While many students cut through the museum on their way to science classes, pausing to look through the exhibits reveals an assortment of cultural and college history. Anthony Swinehart,...
Sydney Slepian proudly poses in front of her presentation on visibility reagents. Courtesy | Angelica Pytel Can you describe to me the focus of your research? To put it simply, there are different substances that we use in the lab, and they’re called viability reagents. They test how alive a culture of cells is. We...
The Biden administration is demanding that TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. sell to an American company or face a national ban on the app in the U.S. Some members of the Hillsdale College faculty and student body think that such a ban has been a long time coming. According to the Wall Street Journal,...
Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher Heckel has made a profession out of stopping to smell the tulips. Heckel has taught at Hillsdale College for five years, but his love for biology started as a kid. “I’ve always been in love with biology,” Heckel said. “When I was in fourth grade we were learning about the...
What was the focus of your research? I was looking at the effects of agricultural land use on stream biology, specifically what’s within the riparian corridor. That’s the area of land immediately adjacent to the stream, and this is important because it’s been found that the Riparian Corridor can act as a buffer to...