Award-winning writer Helon Habila will present the address “Art and Activism” as the 2018 Clarence De Graaf Memorial Lecture at Hope College on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.

For the third consecutive year, a Hope College student won an award at the Annual Meeting and National Student Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). A total of six Hope College students who participated in research this past summer had their work selected for presentation during the conference.

Choreographer Matthew Farmer of the Hope College dance faculty has earned recognition as a finalist for the 2018 Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Performing Arts sponsored by the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts for his original work “Dieser Ort.”

A three-student team from Hope College has won the 2018 intercollegiate Commercial Lending Case Competition, held at Grand Valley State University on Saturday, Oct. 27.

Dr. Richard Vandervelde, who was a member of the Hope College mathematics faculty for 33 years until retiring in 2000, died on Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, at age 80.

A research presentation by two Hope College students won a first-place award during the recent annual national meeting of the Geological Society of America.

Emily St. John Mandel, author of “Station Eleven,” the novel being featured during this year’s NEA Big Read Lakeshore, will discuss her work during a keynote presentation on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.

The Saint Benedict Institute will host a screening of the film “{Summer in the Forest” on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.

What if the monsters aren’t who everyone thinks they are?

Guest lecturer Dr. Davia J. Crutchfield will discuss her research on Pulitzer Prize-winning hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar, presenting “Faith, Intersectionality and Black Masculinity: Kendrick Lamar’s Urban Theology,” on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 3:30 p.m. at Hope College in the Fried/Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.

The Hope College Department of Biology will be showing the documentary film “The First Patient,” on Monday, Nov. 5, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.

Dr. Dale C. Allison Jr. of the Princeton Theological Seminary faculty will present the address “The Bible in an Age of Screens” as the 2018-19 Danforth Lecture at Hope College on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 4 p.m. in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.

The community-wide NEA Big Read Lakeshore led by Hope College and focusing on the post-apocalyptic novel “Station Eleven” will open with a TED-talk-styled celebration on Tuesday, Oct. 30, and continue through Thursday, Nov. 15, with more than 25 events for people of all ages.

Jon McCourt, who has been a peace activist in Derry, Northern Ireland, for more than 30 years, will present “The Force of Argument is Greater Than the Argument of Force: How 40 Years of Conflict and Community Reconciliation Work in Northern Ireland Influenced Government” on Monday, Oct. 22, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in room 102 of VanderWerf Hall.

The role of both students and journalists in political change in South Africa will be the focus of two addresses at Hope College on Monday, Oct. 15, starting at 4 p.m. by experts from the nation who are also husband and wife.

The Department of Chemistry at Hope College has a long history of pioneering teaching at the undergraduate level, excellence that has been incorporated into a national coalition of colleges and universities sharing a major, first-of-its-kind grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand LibreTexts, a free online textbook network that is estimated to have already saved students more than $30 million.

The Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, who was secretary general of the Reformed Church in America for 17 years, will deliver the address “Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping Christianity in the 21st Century” on Thursday Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. at Hope College in the Fried-Hemenway Auditorium of the Martha Miller Center for Global Communication.

Linguist Kenneth Olson will present the address “Translating the Bible: Challenges, Controversies and Cultural Renewal” on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 6:30 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.

Emeritus professor Dr. James Dyke van Putten Jr., who as a longtime member of the physics faculty helped launch Hope’s engineering program, died on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. He was 84.