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”...
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...
When Hillsdale College biology students swap laboratories and classrooms for their annual lakeside retreat, they trek through the woods on a botany hike, burn methane, and canoe for hours on a river. “Whether it’s lighting swamp gas…the s’mores, the canoe trips, the meals that we share together, even the ride up and back — the...
Senior psychology major Elyse Hutcheson may have spent the summer studying hopelessness, but she said she’s optimistic about how the research opportunity helped her prepare for the future. Hutcheson studied causes of a subtype of depression called hopelessness depression at Temple University in Philadelphia. She conducted her research in their mood and cognition lab,...