Hillsdale College students experienced the swamps of the southeastern United States in the heart of southern Michigan on Saturday. Sixteen students and two faculty members from Hillsdale College visited Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary in Athens, Michigan. Jeffery VanZant, associate professor of biology and faculty adviser to the Pre-Veterinary Club, received an invitation a couple months...
Like pieces gathered into a collection of art, the Slayton Arboretum has dozens of different trees in its collections. Hillsdale is home to many interesting trees, including three special tree collections: the witch hazel, the lilac, and the magnolia. “I try really hard not to have a monoculture here to avoid the diseases,” said...
How can email use an algorithm to sort out spam? How can a math model predict traffic flow changes with the introduction of self-driving vehicles? How can data analysis help states to create a renewable energy plan? The Mathematical Contest in Modeling puts to work everything on which the Applied Math Club has...
Ticks stopped bothering senior biology major Randi Block after she had to collect and crack them open for a year’s worth of research. Block studied the American dog tick as a carrier of rickettsia, a pathogenic bacteria that causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Even though she said ticks disgusted her at the beginning of the...
Too often, governmental regulation forces a decision between the environment and the economy — but that doesn’t have to be the case, according to senior Katie Wright, who gave a lecture about California’s water regulation system March 29. Wright said the environment is considered a public good, since one person’s consumption doesn’t affect another’s consumption....