While the squirrels scampering around campus are merely scenery for many students’ walks to class, two senior biology majors have made the squirrels their research subjects for their ongoing animal behavior research projects. Seniors Julia Hoyda and Luiza Wasilewski’s project tracks the nut preference and caching activity of eastern gray squirrels — one of the...
In the wake of another mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, the cry to government to prevent these events is once again at the forefront of our national conversation. Gun violence joins the problem of racism as one of the greatest challenges we currently face as a nation — a problem we expect government to...
Although the solar eclipse in August received a great deal of national attention, few people were aware of an exceedingly larger astronomical event that occurred the same week. The event was the long-expected detection of a neutron star merger, announced by members of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory on Oct. 16. Assistant Professor of Physics...
Want a restaurant’s margarita on a Sunday? That’s banned in Hillsdale County. Little-known Sunday sales laws called “blue laws” prohibit bars and restaurants in Hillsdale County from serving liquor on Sundays. Hillsdale County residents voted in the 1980 general election to prohibit Sunday liquor sales. Almost 40 years later, Hillsdale is the only Michigan city...
