While most students were settling into their weekend routines, Hillsdale biology students were entertaining their scientific interests by lighting swamp gases into flames in northern Michigan this past weekend. On Sept. 16 and 17, 40 students along with the professors of the biology department had an opportunity to explore and enjoy the outdoors at the...
Qianying “Jennie” Zhang is the newest addition to Hillsdale College’s business and economics department. She is an assistant professor of finance and economics and teaches two sections of quantitative analysis this semester. Zhang was born in Shanghai, China and earned her bachelor’s degree in economics at East China Normal University in 2008. It was...
New Assistant Professor of Psychology Benjamin Winegard was in the process of applying to over 100 potential teaching positions last year, unsure of what the future held—that is, until he came across Hillsdale College. “I read the mission statement and thought, this sounds exactly like where I want to be. I immediately realized this was...
Even in graduate school, Kevin Gerstle, Hillsdale’s newest assistant professor of mathematics, stood out to his professor’s teaching assistant. Gerstle is one of 11 new faculty members Hillsdale College has welcomed this school year. With a bachelor’s degree in psychology and mathematics from Kenyon College and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Iowa,...
Dr. Laura Niklason, a noted scientist and professor of anesthesiology and biomedical engineering at Yale University, was interviewed by Lillian Quinones ’18 on Quinones’ radio show “Science and Ethics.” “A synthetic blood vessel that you developed was grafted into the arm of a kidney dialysis patient. The research that produced this result took 20 years...