When junior Steve Weideman noticed a family friend with autism struggling to find care during quarantine, he decided to create an app called Unique Care Connect that would help autistic individuals everywhere connect with local care providers. Growing up, he said, his best friend’s brother Chris had severe intellectual disabilities. Spending time with Chris inspired...
If you’re a Hillsdale student, chances are high you’ve been asked what your Enneagram type is. Although the Enneagram—a personality test based on nine different personality types—is popular among Hillsdale students, personality tests as a whole are a good conversation starter, Assistant Professor of Psychology Benjamin Winegard said. Other well-known tests include Myers-Briggs, Big Five,...
After multiple decades of work and research, Professor of Biology Anthony Swinehart has discovered a new species of hickory tree, the carya pipecreekensis. Along with this discovery comes proof for a significant spatio-temporal range extension of Ginkgophyta (a division of gymnosperms that includes the maidenhair tree and its extinct relatives) in North America. The discovery...
After a year like 2020, it can feel like the world is transforming into a gigantic Black Mirror episode. That inkling could very well be a reality, thanks to a recent Microsoft patent. In December 2020, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Microsoft a patent which details a process of creating a chatbot based...
When junior Shane Smith started looking for a summer research internship last year, he never expected to work on a project analyzing radio signals that could provide proof of extraterrestrial life. “I didn’t really know that there was actually a scientific community that was looking for aliens,” Smith, a physics major, said. “Usually when you...