Mossey Library introduced a new audiobook program, Naxos Spoken Word, to their online Naxos library to adjust for the lack of CD circulation and to give faculty and students the option of listening instead of reading. According to technical service librarian LeAnne Rumler, the program came out three years ago and has the same framework as the music library. The...
Science and Tech
Cellular telephony expert speaks on history of early technology
Often taken for granted is the supercomputer that rests in everyone’s pockets. Not many remember a day when a real map had to be used, when writing letters was the only way to contact a distant friend, or when real people had to perform any of the tasks that a smartphone can complete at the touch of a finger. One...
‘Adam After Darwin’ talk explores evolution through theology, biology
In the middle of a busy homecoming week, students and faculty gathered in the formal lounge on Sept. 19 to hear Father Nicanor Austriaco, Ph.D. professor of biology and theology at Providence College, energetically discuss the harmonious relationship between theology and biology in Darwinian evolution. Austriaco is a member of the Thomistic Institute. The Institute’s campus outreach director Rev. Gregory...
College horticulturist offers plant therapy sessions, tackles stress
In the greenhouse behind Hayden Park fields last Thursday, a handful of students took an hour out of the afternoon to plant herbs and refocus. The sessions, which will occur once a month for the remainder of the semester, stem from a combined effort on the part of Hillsdale College Horticulturist Angie Girdham and Director of Health Services Brock Lutz...
Students devote summer to cancer-related research
In Houston, two Hillsdale students braved the heat and the unknown to pursue their passions. Working among students from the likes of Brown University, University of California Berkeley, and Princeton, seniors Nicholas DeCleene and Caroline Andrews spent the summer conducting research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the No. 1 cancer center in America. DeCleene and Andrews...
Annual biology retreat fosters friendships
While most students were settling into their weekend routines, Hillsdale biology students were entertaining their scientific interests by lighting swamp gases into flames in northern Michigan this past weekend. On Sept. 16 and 17, 40 students along with the professors of the biology department had an opportunity to explore and enjoy the outdoors at the college’s Rockwell Lake Lodge at...
‘Lively and knowledgeable’: New professor brings energy to quantitative analysis
Qianying “Jennie” Zhang is the newest addition to Hillsdale College’s business and economics department. She is an assistant professor of finance and economics and teaches two sections of quantitative analysis this semester. Zhang was born in Shanghai, China and earned her bachelor’s degree in economics at East China Normal University in 2008. It was her “dream school.” Then she...
Mission statement attracts newest psychology professor
New Assistant Professor of Psychology Benjamin Winegard was in the process of applying to over 100 potential teaching positions last year, unsure of what the future held—that is, until he came across Hillsdale College. “I read the mission statement and thought, this sounds exactly like where I want to be. I immediately realized this was my first choice,” Winegard said....
Hillsdale welcomes new mathematics professor
Even in graduate school, Kevin Gerstle, Hillsdale’s newest assistant professor of mathematics, stood out to his professor’s teaching assistant. Gerstle is one of 11 new faculty members Hillsdale College has welcomed this school year. With a bachelor’s degree in psychology and mathematics from Kenyon College and a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Iowa, he is in his third...