Senior Eric LaRose was recently announced as one of six 2016-2017 Young Scholars Award winners by the American Enterprise Institute’s Values and Capitalism Project. This is the second consecutive year a Hillsdale student has won the prestigious award, which includes a $5,000 scholarship and the opportunity for students to defend their research theses in front of a panel of scholars...
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Optimizing Online Learning
Associate Professor of Economics Roger Butters promises his online program can raise students’ test scores by as much as 10 percent. After teaching online for 12 years, Butters said he realized teaching technology, at the time, was archaic and that a traditional textbook was not interactive enough for students. He created the online program ConnectMaster Economics to teach students economics...
Battling leukemia with brotherly love
As freshman Vince Miozzi left the hospital in November with the good news that everything still looked great after a regular checkup, a doctor came running up behind him to take him back to an exam room. “We missed something,” Miozzi said his primary oncologist told him. “Something looks wrong. It’s in your blood counts.” Miozzi went under anesthesia for...
Backpacking, hitchhiking, and freeze-dried dinners
The air sits on the tongue like a menthol cough drop, and two hikers inhale as they ford a river of glacial runoff. It’s a summer day in Iceland, with the temperature hovering at 40 degrees and the sky a pastel blue framing nebulous clouds. The hikers are hoping, most of all, not to freeze. After they cross the river,...
Honoring alumni achievements
As homecoming celebrated its 100th year and the alumni association celebrated its 150th year, the alumni board held its annual alumni awards banquet last Friday to honor three distinguished alumni and one honorary alumnus. The recipients, David Hough, Kevin Shinkle ’87, Beth Deer Walker ’87, and Hans Zeiger ’07, are thriving in their respective fields and have generally retained a...
Student pens Amazon best-seller
Freshman Jacquelyn Eubanks is a 19-year-old fountain pen and she’s nowhere close to running out of ink. The Hillsdale student is an Amazon best-selling author who has two published novels and has another in production. She’s received a five-star rating from Readers’ Favorite and the 2014 Readers’ Favorite Bronze Award. “I grew up writing,” Eubanks said. “My grandma especially thought...
