Hope College News
2020 Jan
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Campus Life Hope Honors Staff for Service
Hope College staff members were recognized during the college’s annual service award luncheon, held on Friday, Jan. 17, in the Maas Center auditorium.
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Academics Annual Provost’s Recognition Event Honors Faculty
Hope College honored faculty and staff members for service to the college and other professional activity during the annual faculty recognition event coordinated by the Provost’s Office and held at the Maas Center auditorium on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
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Academics Address to Consider Three Paradoxes about Shakespeare’s Writing
Three paradoxes about William Shakespeare’s writing will be the focus of an address at Hope College by internationally respected Shakespeare scholar Dr. John Cox, who is a retired member of the college’s English faculty, on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 5:30 p.m. in the Fried/Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.
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Arts Great Performance Series to Feature Alfredo Rodriguez/Pedrito Martinez Duo
The Hope College Great Performance Series will present an evening of Cuban jazz witgh the Rodriguez/Martinez Duo on Friday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
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Athletics Kamaron Wilcox Selected as MIAA Men’s Diver of the Week
Hope College’s Kamaron Wilcox is the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Men’s Diver of the Week.
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Athletics Olivia Robertson Named MIAA Women’s Diver of the Week
Hope College’s Olivia Robertson is the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Women’s Diver of the Week.
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Athletics Seth Costello Chosen as MIAA Men’s Swimmer of the Week
Hope College’s Seth Costello has been selected as the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Men’s Swimmer of the Week.
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Arts Hope College Faculty Recital to Feature Christopher Fashun on Jan. 19
Hope College will feature percussionist and faculty member Christopher Fashun on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
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Campus Life Xernona Clayton, Who Worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, to Present Annual Civil Rights Lecture at Hope on Jan. 20
This year’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture at Hope College will feature a speaker who worked with the revered civil rights leader and his wife.
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Campus Life Fall 2019 Dean's List Announced
The Registrar’s Office is pleased to announce Dean’s List recipients for the fall semester. The Dean’s List is awarded to full-time, degree-seeking students who have received grades for all courses in a given semester (no incompletes) and have a semester GPA of 3.50 or above. Hope College Registrar’s Office considers this a significant achievement.
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Arts Hope College Announces the Knickerbocker Winter Film Series
The Hope College Knickerbocker Winter Film Series will continue the college’s long tradition of showing current independent and international films. The series will show four films, each for a week-long run, beginning with “Give Me Liberty” on Jan. 13-18; “Midnight Family” on Feb. 3-8; and “Up There” on Feb. 24-29. A final film, yet to be chosen, will show on March 9-14.
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campus-life Home At Last
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I thought that when I got home from studying abroad, everything was going to feel different. That my friends and family would look a bit older. That there would be many events I missed out on or didn’t know about. That I would accidentally slip some French into my English. I know I was […]
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Arts Exhibit ‘(re)collection’ reflects on migration
Holland SentinelThe African American experience during the Great Migration of the 20th century is reflected in the exhibition ”(re)collection” by Chicago-based artist Nate Young, which opens in the De Pree Art Center and Gallery today.
2019 Dec
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arts “A Swell of Grace”: New Music from Hope for Advent and Christmas
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Remember when the unofficial start to the Christmas season waited until after Thanksgiving? No more. Now retail stores have Santa displays on the endcaps and “Frosty the Snowman” over the loudspeaker before kids can finish saying, “Trick or Treat!” Into this fast-paced frenzy of commercial Christmas chaos, a group of Hope students, helmed by Bruce […]
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giving 10 Under 10 Award Recipient | Hillary Delhagen ’09
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As a freshman with an undeclared major, Hillary Delhagen ’09, questioned if Hope College was right for her. Hundreds of miles away from her home in upstate New York, Delhagen was struggling to find her place at Hope College and was thinking about transferring. However, after pushing through the hard adjustment of freshman year and […]
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academics Finding the Christian Church in China
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When Dr. Gloria Tseng arrived at Hope College in 2003 as a Europeanist with an emphasis on France, her first course in French history was attended by one student. “On one hand, it was a good student-faculty ratio,” she says now, with a lilting laugh. The following semester, history repeated itself: just one student, albeit […]
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Academics Reconciling God & Disasters
Christianity TodayWhen faith is at the center of a person’s life, it can provide a strong anchor in even the roughest storms. This article references a laboratory study led by Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren, associate professor of psychology, to better understand why some people might experience greater religious cognitive dissonance than others in the aftermath of a disaster.
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Academics The 20 most popular Catholic World Report stories and articles of 2019
The Catholic World ReportAn article by Dr. Jared Ortiz — “Sex in the Garden” (August 5, 2019), about Augustine’s views on sexual desire — was among the 20 most popular “Catholic World Report” stories and articles of 2019.
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Campus Life Hope program for high school students funded by grant
Holland SentinelHope’s summertime Awakening faith-formation program for high school students, which was established in 2016 through a previous grant from Lilly Endowment, has received a new matching grant of $250,000 through Lilly Endowment’s Theology Institutes for High School Youth at Colleges and Universities initiative.
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Athletics Baseball Appears in National Preseason Poll
The Hope College baseball team appears in the Collegiate Baseball’s 2020 NCAA Division III Preseason Poll.
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Athletics Women’s Soccer Megan Bigelow Earns Scholar All-Region Honors
Hope College women’s soccer player Megan Bigelow has been named a United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region honoree.
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Athletics Softball Brings Home Numerous NFCA Academic Honors
Sixteen members of the Hope College softball team earned national recognition as 2019 Easton/National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Scholar-Athletes.
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Arts African American Experience During the Great Migration Is Reflected by Nate Young’s Exhibition “(re)collection” Opening Jan. 6
The African American experience during the Great Migration of the 20th century is reflected in the exhibition “(re)collection” by Chicago-based artist Nate Young, which will open in the De Pree Art Center and Gallery at Hope College on Monday, Jan. 6, and continue through Thursday, Feb. 6.
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Arts StrikeTime Dance Theatre to Present Jan. 10-11 Concerts for Children
The Hope College dance affiliate StrikeTime Dance Theatre will present a live dance event for children, “Moving Art,” on Friday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 11, at 2 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
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Academics Book of Poetry by Francis Fike Published
“Dune Tracks,” the new poetry collection by Francis Fike, professor of English emeritus at Hope College, begins
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Arts Exhibition “Resilience, Resistance and Revival in 20th-Century Yoruba Art” to Open at the Kruizenga Art Museum on January 17
A new exhibition opening at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 17, will feature a variety of artworks made and used by the Yoruba people of Nigeria and West Africa. The exhibition, which will continue through Saturday, May 16, includes both traditional and contemporary forms of Yoruba art across a wide range of genres, from paintings and prints to sculptures, metalwork and textiles.
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Athletics Fall Sports Letterwinners Are Announced; Twenty-Six Student-Athletes Lettered Four Years
Athletic letter recipients for Hope College fall sports teams in 2019 have been announced by athletic director Tim Schoonveld.
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Academics 7 Years After Sandy Hook: Coping With Difficult Milestones
Psychology TodayPublished on the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook tragedy, this article suggests steps to help survivors cope with challenging anniversaries, citing research by Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren, associate professor of psychology.
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Athletics Zach Smith Awarded Rimington Trophy as NCAA Division III Football’s Top Center
In a snap, Zach Smith started everything for the Hope College football team’s high-powered offense. The senior center from Suttons Bay, Michigan (Suttons Bay HS) stood out this season for the Flying Dutchmen.
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Arts Classical Guitarist Samuel Hines to Perform on Jan. 10
Hope College will welcome award-winning classical guitarist Samuel Hines on Friday, Jan. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the John and Dede Howard Recital Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
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Athletics Hope College To Host Purple Community Basketball Games, Support Van Andel Institute
The Hope College men’s and women’s basketball teams are teaming up to give an assist to Van Andel Institute’s cancer and neurodegenerative disease research and science education efforts.
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Academics Psychology explains why Trump supporters shrug at impeachment
San Francisco ChronicleDr. David Myers, professor of psychology — along with cowriters Dr. Thomas Pettigrew and Dr. Susan Fiske — uses social psychology to answer the question, “Why do Americans remain so steadfast in their support of President Trump?”
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Athletics Mitchel Achien’g Named MIAA Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week
Hope College’s Mitchel Achien’g has been selected as the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week.
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Athletics Three Hope Football Players Earn D3football.com All-Region Honors
Hope College center Zach Smith, linebacker Mason Dekker and left tackle Timothy Ivery have received All-North Region honors from D3football.com for the 2019 season.
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Athletics Sydney Muller Selected as MIAA Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week
Hope College’s Sydney Muller is the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Women’s Basketball Athlete of the Week.
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Athletics Emma Schaefer Claims MIAA Women’s Swimmer of the Week Honor
Hope College’s Emma Schaefer has been chosen as the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Women’s Swimmer of the Week.
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Athletics Peter Stuursma Receives AFCA Regional Coach of the Year Award
Hope College’s Peter Stuursma has been selected as the American Football Coaches Association NCAA Division III Region 4 Coach of the Year.
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Campus Life Vespers 2019 Photo Gallery
The 79th annual Hope College Christmas Vespers was presented on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7 and 8. The program of Christmas carols and anthems was presented by the college’s Department of Music and featured more than 200 performers in historic Dimnent Memorial Chapel. The service also featured a variety of Hope instrumental and vocal groups as well as the college’s historic Skinner organ.
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Campus Life President's Christmas Tree Lighting 2019
President Matt and Sarah Scogin invited students to join them outside their home on Monday, Dec. 2 for the Lighting of the Tree and Christmas carols. Followed by a walk to the Bultman Center to enjoy more music, treats and cookie decorating.
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Academics Students share research at MACC annual watershed Meeting
Holland SentinelDuring the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council’s annual watershed meeting in December, Hope students and professors shared research that could shape local policy, including research on light pollution in Holland, the amount of metal in Lake Macatawa fish species and pollution along the shoreline.
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Academics Students and Faculty Present Research During Annual Watershed Meeting
Multiple student and faculty researchers from Hope whose work has focused on the area’s environmental health presented reports during the 2019 annual meeting of the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council’s Macatawa Watershed Project, held on Thursday, Dec. 5, at Holland City Hall.
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Campus Life Lilly Endowment Inc. Continues Support of Summer Awakening Faith-Formation Program for High School Students
Hope College’s summertime Awakening faith-formation program for high school students has been so meaningful to its participants that several have enrolled repeatedly since it began four years ago.
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Athletics Center Zach Smith Selected as an AFCA First Team All-American
Hope College center Zach Smith has joined elite company after being chosen to the 2019 American Football Coaches Association NCAA Division III All-America Team.
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Athletics Logan Bylsma Named to CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
Men’s soccer forward Logan Bylsma has joined a select group of Hope College student-athletes as repeat recipients of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-America Award.
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Athletics Three Women’s Players Claim All-Region Honors
Three Hope College women’s soccer players have received all-region honors from the United Soccer Coaches organization.
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campus-life Preparing for Exams…What is it Like?
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By: Andie Alsgaard Everyone approaches Exam Week a little differently in college. It depends on where you like to study, how you like to study and what you’re doing for your final grade. As a STEM major, specifically an engineer, I rarely write papers. Instead, I’m studying for final exams. Exam Week is a unique […]
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Academics Student Wins Travel and Research-Poster Awards
Hope College sophomore Paulina Kozan of Harwood Heights, Illinois, received recognition both before and during this year’s Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), held in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday-Saturday, Nov. 13-16.
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Arts HSRT Announces Dec. 13-14 Emerging Artist Initiative Auditions
Hope Summer Repertory Theatre invites students with a passion for theatre to audition for the 2020 season’s production of “Disney’s Freaky Friday - The Musical” through HSRT’s Emerging Artist Initiative.