Sydney Slepian proudly poses in front of her presentation on visibility reagents. Courtesy | Angelica Pytel Can you describe to me the focus of your research? To put it simply, there are different substances that we use in the lab, and they’re called viability reagents. They test how alive a culture of cells is. We...
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Entertainment or espionage: Campus reacts to proposed TikTok ban
The Biden administration is demanding that TikTok’s Beijing-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. sell to an American company or face a national ban on the app in the U.S. Some members of the Hillsdale College faculty and student body think that such a ban has been a long time coming. According to the Wall Street Journal,...
Professor feature: Christopher Heckel, Hillsdale-born botanist
Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher Heckel has made a profession out of stopping to smell the tulips. Heckel has taught at Hillsdale College for five years, but his love for biology started as a kid. “I’ve always been in love with biology,” Heckel said. “When I was in fourth grade we were learning about the...
Opinion: Genealogy technology provides false sense of connection to past
Brothers Robert and Benjamin Philips were teenagers during WWI. Courtesy | Tracy Wilson When I found my 92-year-old grandmother’s high school yearbook picture online, she was taken aback—she said she thought it was one of the worst pictures ever taken of her. As it turns out, Hillsdale students have full access to records on Ancestry.com—...
Big Tech, big potential problems: campus reacts to developing Supreme Court case
Google Headquarters | Courtesy Getty Images The United States Supreme Court recently heard a case that could allow technology companies like Google to be sued for content their algorithms recommend to users. Family members of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was one of the 100 victims in the 2015 ISIS attack in Paris, are bringing the suit...




