Hillsdale’s Lighthouse Club, a mental health awareness organization, partnered with the psychology honorary Psi Chi to organize a depression screening booth in the Grewcock Student Union for National Depression Screening Day on Oct. 11. The two organizations sought to spread awareness about depression and provide those who suffer from it with resources and support. Members...
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...
Chemistry’s place in the liberal arts took center stage when Hillsdale hosted the 66th annual Midwestern Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts Colleges conference over fall break. This was the first time Hillsdale hosted the conference. Associate Professor of Chemistry Matthew Young said the topic fit well with Hillsdale’s mission. “In the development of...
Science professors must equip their students to make ethical decisions and think about ethics in the context of their scientific research, said Brian Coppola, professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, in a lecture on Saturday. Speaking to about 70 chemistry professors who gathered for the Midwestern Association of Chemistry Teachers in Liberal Arts...
Following a 2017-18 influenza season classified as “high severity” by the Centers for Disease Control, Hillsdale Hospital is hosting a free flu-vaccine clinic in the TV room of Hillsdale College’s Grewcock Student Union this week. The hospital has offered the service annually for about four years. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, five...