Before a specimen can be displayed in a museum, it must first be discovered, cleaned, and prepared. During the week of June 10-17, a professor and an alumnus of the biology department worked on fossil digs in Chadron, Nebraska, with the goal of finding specimens to add to the collection in the college’s Daniel...
Hurricane Maria caused damage to instruments at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, home to the world’s second-largest radio telescope and other instrumentation used by Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch and Hillsdale College students. The hurricane damage affected the telescope’s receiver, the 430-MHz feed, which fell and created a hole in the the the 305-meter...
What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning or lost all its water at once? David Consiglio, an Oakland Community College professor and high school science teacher, may have the answer. Consiglio gave a talk about these and other questions addressed in his book “Spoiler Alert: Everyone Dies: The Lighter Side of Global Annihilation”...
“If there is intelligent life out there, how does that change how we see ourselves?” Assistant Professor of Physics Timothy Dolch asked during the first Lyceum lunch of the year, held Sept. 19 in the nook of the Knorr Dining Hall. Students gathered to discuss the “positive fad or probable fact” of extraterrestrial life...
A botanist, a geneticist, a physicist, and a Green Beret walk into a 636-square foot simulation space capsule. It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened to Tim Evans, an associate professor of biology and director of the herbarium at Grand Valley State University. Tuesday night, Evans spoke at...