Stephen and Jenny Conner smile in front of the Grotto house. Courtesy | Jenny Conner This year, Catholic Society welcomes a new alumni couple, Stephen and Jenny Conner ’24, to the Grotto. The Grotto, an outreach of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish, is an off-campus house dedicated to facilitating student faith, life, and community. This house has also traditionally...
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QUICK HITS with Korey Maas
Korey Maas and his wife Kate in Hyde Park, London during graduate school. Courtesy | Korey Maas In this Quick Hits, Chairman and Associate Professor of History Korey Maas discusses Yabby You, Hello Kitty tattoos, and James Bond. If you were banished from the history department, what would your second career be? The correct answer, since I attended seminary and...
Beyond Saga: Students whip up homemade meals
Students pass homemade food around a kitchen table. Courtesy | Stephen Zhu Pans sizzle and stovetops glow for students who cook fresh meals in their dorm kitchens, anxious to put their culinary skills to the test. For many of these students, their passion for cooking stems from tradition, practicality, and the desire to bond with friends. Senior Stephen Zhu did...
Students clock in for work in the big city
Senior Luke Wong stands in front of Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. Courtesy | Luke Wong During the summer, some students traded the rural charm of Hillsdale for the promise of street food, the metro, and big-city internships — here are three of their stories. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Senior Luke Wong spent...
‘She teaches Jane Austen, for the love of God’: Sundet joins English department
Sundet smiles with her two-year-old niece, Simone. Courtesy | Leta Sundet Having moved from the rolling hills of Connecticut to her roach-infested Texan abode, Assistant Professor of English Leta Sundet now finds herself in the middle-of-nowhere, Michigan, sharing in the Great Books tradition with eager Hillsdale College students. This semester, Sundet is teaching two sections of Great Books in the...
Camp Hillsdale: high schoolers study advanced science over the summer
High school campers, professors, and teaching assistants from Hillsdale College’s summer science camp pose in front of Central Hall. Courtesy | David Murphy Biology majors at Hillsdale do not learn how to duplicate DNA until well into college — but Emmeline Peltzer, a high school senior from Arizona, spent a week learning upper-level molecular biology at one of Hillsdale College’s...
