Hope College News
2019 Dec
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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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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.
2019 Nov
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Academics Embodied: Deconstructing Forgiveness
WUNC 91.5In this North Carolina Public Radio program, host Anita Rao examines forgiveness — how to do it, and how the act may impact your health — with Hope College psychology professor Dr. Charlotte vanOyen-Witvliet, behavioral economist Dr. Dan Ariely and minister Reverend Irene Monroe.
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Academics National Accreditation Continues for Hope’s Teacher-Education Program
The teacher-education program at Hope College continues to hold national accreditation, receiving the designation for the next seven years, the maximum possible, from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).
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Academics Hope Appoints Eight Faculty Members to Endowed Professorships
An investiture dinner and ceremony at Hope College on Thursday, Nov. 21, honored the eight faculty members who the college appointed or reappointed to endowed professorships beginning with the 2019-20 school year.
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Academics Fred Johnson III to Receive DAR Medal of Honor
The Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Holland, Michigan, is proud to announce that Dr. Fred L. Johnson III, associate professor of history at Hope College, will be presented with the DAR Medal of Honor. Dr. Johnson was nominated by the Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton Chapter for this honor, which is the most prestigious award that the DAR presents.
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Academics Hope and West Ottawa High School Jazz Groups to Perform on Nov. 18
The Hope College Jazz Arts Collective and the West Ottawa High School Jazz I ensemble will present a combined concert on Monday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
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Academics Screening of “Forbidden Voices” on Nov. 18 in Conjunction with Big Read
The documentary film “Forbidden Voices,” which focuses on three female bloggers who are activists for human rights in their homelands and the consequences they face, will be shown at Hope College on Monday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
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Academics Sneering At The Yokels In The Age Of Trump
The American ConservativeDr. Jeff Polet, professor of political science, challenges writers and pundits who “who have contempt for places that don’t keep up with the times.” When coming to our parts of the country, he writes, reporters should consider “walking in our work shoes rather than mocking us.”
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Academics Big Read Author Julia Alvarez to Deliver Keynote Address on Nov. 12
Award-winning author Julia Alvarez, whose books are the focus of this year’s NEA Big Read Lakeshore, will deliver the event’s keynote address on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.