Hope College News
2019 Feb
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@FemiOluyedun
I am very pleased to announce that I have accepted a faculty position at @HopeCollege in the Department of Kinesiol… https://t.co/9asAkRzzdL
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Academics Hope Grad to Discuss Career Using Research Skills from Psych Course
Dr. Kari Nysse Carris, a 1996 Hope College graduate who is vice president of health sciences at NORC (formerly known as the National Opinion Research Center) at the University of Chicago will present “Research Methods: The Tie That Binds” on Monday, Feb. 18, at 3:30 p.m. at Hope in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall through the college’s annual John Shaughnessy Psychology Lecture Series.
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@HamiltonSchools
New student teacher Mary Carpenter from @hopecollege is making connections and having an impact already! She is stu… https://t.co/SRuVVRXRzX
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Academics World War II Tuskegee Airman Franklin J. Macon to Speak at Hope
Franklin J. Macon, who as a Documented Original Tuskegee Airman during World War II was among the first African American military aviators in the U.S., will speak at Hope College on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
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academics A Vital Partnership Becomes Vitalis
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Purchasing a nursing textbook with required, additional materials can be costly at times. Realizing that students might be hard pressed to afford the extras that come with certain books and existing programs on the market, the Hope College nursing department decided to look for a cheaper way to provide a more basic but meaningful version … Continue reading A Vital Partnership Becomes Vitalis
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Academics Ingrid Dykeman of Music Faculty Named State’s Top Orchestra Teacher
Ingrid Dykeman of the Hope College music faculty has been named the MSBOA Orchestra Teacher of the Year 2018 by the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, which also recently presented her with an Emeritus award.
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Academics One Way to Make College Meaningful
New York TimesThere is a growing movement among private colleges and universities to focus on vocation as it evolves from the Christian tradition, in the sense of a “calling.” Consider what happened when the Hope College chapter of Engineers Without Borders embarked on a project to bring water filtration systems to the community of Nkuv in Cameroon.
2019 Jan
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academics WGS and the World: Alumni Interview–Dr. Vanessa Ann Claus ’08
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Meet Our Alumni: Dr. Vanessa Ann Claus Dr. Vanessa Ann Claus ‘ 08 graduated with a dual major in Women’s Studies* and Communication. Dr. Claus is a Lead Faculty Member at Colorado State University-Global Campus teaching business and management courses and publishing in peer-reviewed journals. In 2013, she co-published “Culture and leadership: Women in nonprofit and … Continue reading WGS and the World: Alumni Interview–Dr. Vanessa Ann Claus ’08
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academics Deirdre Johnston receives new Great Lakes Colleges Association award
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Deirdre Johnston, Interim Associate Dean for Global Education and Professor of Communication, received a new Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) award of $27,000 for a project titled Global Health in the Liberal Arts Collaborative. The award period is 10 June 2019 through 14 June 2019. This project will send eight Hope faculty members to the … Continue reading Deirdre Johnston receives new Great Lakes Colleges Association award
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academics Developing More Than Just Techies …
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One of the distinguishing features of a Hope College education is the effort our faculty and staff make to help ensure that students think about more than just the technical aspects of their computer science education. One way we have been doing this recently is in our “Exploring Computer Science” course by having students read … Continue reading Developing More Than Just Techies …
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Academics A High Note in Neuroscience
Diverse: Issues In Higher EducationDr. Gerald Griffin, associate professor of biology and psychology, has been named a 2019 Emerging Scholar by “Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.” The honorees are selected based on research, educational background, publishing record, teaching record, competitiveness of field of study and uniqueness of field of study.
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Academics Gerald Griffin of Hope Faculty Named a 2019 Emerging Scholar
Dr. Gerald Griffin, associate professor of biology and psychology at Hope College, has been named a 2019 Emerging Scholar by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.
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academics Aerospace Aspirations
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A typical semester for Hope College engineering student Samuel Bachwich (‘21) includes a full load of challenging courses across campus and long hours working on the Formula SAE team. During the fall 2018 semester he added one more activity to his schedule: Sam had the privilege of being a member of NASA’s inaugural L’SPACE Academy. … Continue reading Aerospace Aspirations
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Academics Mike Norman of Hope music faculty to receive award of merit
Holland SentinelMike Norman of the music faculty will receive an Award of Merit from the Michigan Music Education Association. The award recognizes an individual who has provided exemplary service to the MMEA and music education in Michigan.
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Academics Hope to Show Documentary Exploring How to Make a Better World for All
Hope College will offer an advance screening of the new documentary “The Pursuit,” which explores the question of how to create a better world for all, starting with those at the margins of society, on Monday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
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Academics Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series to Feature Sophfronia Scott on Jan. 29
Hope College’s Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series will feature Sophfronia Scott on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. in the John and Dede Howard Recital Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
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Academics What Happened When Comfort Research Stopped Making Furniture For Other Brands And Focused On Itself
ForbesWhen Chip George and Matt Jung were students at Hope College in Michigan in the mid -1990s, they restuffed an old beanbag chair that had seen better days. This sparked an the idea for a company that would design and sell simple, affordable furniture, and Comfort Research was born with George and Jung acting as co-CEOs.
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Academics Mike Norman of Music Faculty to Receive Statewide Award of Merit
Mike Norman of the Hope College music faculty has been chosen to receive an Award of Merit from the Michigan Music Education Association (MMEA).
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Academics Retired Chemistry Professor Stephen K. Taylor Dies
Dr. Stephen K. Taylor, who retired in 2009 after 24 years as a member of the college’s chemistry faculty, died on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019. He was 74.
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Academics Lectures to Focus on Effect of Aerosol Emissions on Climate and Health
Research scientist Dr. Douglas R. Worsnop, a 1974 Hope College graduate who is a vice president with Aerodyne Research Inc., will focus on the effect of aerosol emissions on climate and health through two lectures that he will present while at Hope on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 24-25, through the James and Jeanette Neckers Lectureship in Chemistry.
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Academics One Good Thing: Hope College students working on world water problems
WZZM13Hope students have partnered with a few different organizations to provide clean water to people in Fiji, which has been hit by three hurricanes in three years. In addition to Fiji, the students are studying water filter effectiveness in 24 other countries around the globe.
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academics Dreaming in Comics: Alumni Interview with RJ Casey ’09
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Happy New Year, and to all at Hope, welcome back for a new semester. This week we’re delighted to bring you an interview with RJ Casey, a Hope ’09 grad whose pursuit of English has taken him from Moby Dick and Walden Pond to the cutting edge of comics publishing! RJ, we can’t wait to hear … Continue reading Dreaming in Comics: Alumni Interview with RJ Casey ’09
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academics They’ll Always Have Paris
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A small but reputable library in Paris now has a new and meaningful relationship with a small but reputable liberal arts college in the U.S. thanks to a Hope English professor and her two research students. For two and a half weeks during the summer of 2018, Dr. Natalie Dykstra, senior Sarah Lundy and junior … Continue reading They’ll Always Have Paris
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AcademicsHope People: Dr. Joanne Stewart, the Elmer E. Hartgerink Professor of Chemistry
Though Joanne Stewart is an inorganic chemist, she champions the importance of education stemming from a variety of realms.
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Academics Winter Happening Featuring Seminars Will Be Saturday, Jan. 26
Multiple general-interest seminars led by members of the Hope College faculty will be featured during the college’s annual Winter Happening on Saturday, Jan. 26.
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Academics Author to Discuss Sustainable Alternatives to Hectic Lifestyle
Author William Powers, who has worked for two decades in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa and North America, will discuss sustainable alternatives to a hectic lifestyle on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 4:30 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
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Academics Featured Grantee of the Month: Hope College
Arts MidwestDr. Deborah Van Duinen from Hope College talks multigenerational programming, access to literature, and an NEA Big Read that helped their community find solidarity in difference.