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...
“What we call philosophy of mind has to do with a set of issues that have been with us since the start of the enlightenment,” Professor of Philosophy Jim Stephens said. “When René Descartes said, ‘I think therefore I am,’ it contained a whole new way of looking at the mind.” This semester, Stephens teaches...
Over the summer, senior Natalie Meckel was admitted to a research program, spending the summer crystallizing proteins for neutron diffraction experiments at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to take part in the 10-week Redox Biology Center Summer Research (REU) Program. “I’d planned on doing research ever since I was a freshman as part of my...