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A Hillsdale College freshman was one of 131 international medical students to have her research abstract accepted by Brown University’s eighth Annual Student Neurology & Neurosurgery Research Conference. The results were announced on Nov. 27, 2025.  “It was a very mixed feeling,” said Samiksha Yadav, who intends to major in biochemistry. “I was not laughing. I wasn’t smiling. It was...

The John Halter Shooting Sports Education Center will host the LaPorte Reagan Five-Stand Winter League Jan. 21-Feb. 28 for a second year inside the heated Drummond Five-Stand Building. The league is a sporting clays competition, in which participants shoot clay targets coming from various trajectories from each of the five indoor towers each week. Each competitor shoots 50 clays per...

James “Jim” Stephens, former professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College, died Dec. 23 at age 76 in Hillsdale. “He was a splendid teacher and a productive and insightful scholar,” Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn said in a statement. “He wanted to teach in a place like this so badly that he actually managed to trade with a loved one, teaching...

Charles Wilcox joined Career Services as executive director in October after the position was left vacant in August.  Wilcox filled the spot left by Ken Koopmans, who held the position for nine years. Wilcox graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Arts in economics and political science in 2002 and a master’s degree in education and organizational leadership in...

Faculty from the Hillsdale politics and history departments say they approve of the operation to extradite Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, who has led Venezuela for the past quarter century. Maduro has pled not guilty to narcotics charges in Manhattan’s Southern District of New York after an operation by U.S. armed forces extradited him and his wife, Cilia Flores de Maduro,...

The Society of Physics Students and the Hillsdale College physics department will invite other Michigan liberal arts colleges to an undergraduate physics conference next month, the first-ever multi-college science conference  to be hosted at Hillsdale.  The Hillsdale College Physics Invitational, which will take place on Feb. 21, will offer a keynote speaker, poster presentations, a networking fair, faculty talks, and...

Rep. John James told a group of College Republicans over lunch last month that what ails Michigan is more cultural than political. “This culture of hopelessness that most people are feeling can be changed when we lead by example,” said the 44-year-old congressman, who represents a district north of Detroit. “The solutions we need are not political in nature. I...