Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture featuring Dr. Jemar Tisby, The New York Times bestselling author of “The Color of Compromise,” was held on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.

Hope College’s Markets & Morality student organization will host a viewing of Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, followed by a discussion with the film’s writer-director — Meredith Bragg — on Monday, Feb. 2 starting at 7 p.m., at the Knickerbocker Theater in downtown Holland.

Dr. James M. Gentile, an internationally respected leader in science education who served at Hope for 30 years, passed away at the age of 79 on Jan. 9, 2026, in Zeeland, Mich.