Hope College News
2018 Aug
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Arts Hope College Faculty Recital on Sept. 7 Featuring Cellist Alicia Eppinga Canceled
The Sept 7 faculty recital featuring cellist Alicia Eppinga has been canceled.
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Campus Life Death of J. Cotter Tharin, Founder of Geology Department
Dr. J. Cotter Tharin, who founded the college’s geology department and taught at Hope for 29 years, died on Thursday, Aug. 9, at age 87.
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Academics Natalie Dykstra of Hope English Faculty Receives NEH Public Scholar Program award for Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner
As she visited Boston’s historic Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Dr. Natalie Dykstra of the Hope College English faculty couldn’t help but wonder about the founder for whom it’s named.
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Campus Life Incoming Class of 2022 Arrives on Aug. 24 for New School Year
Both new construction and a new hub for career development will greet Hope College students as they arrive later this month for the college’s 157th academic year.
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Academics Chemist Jeffrey Johnson Receives NSF Grant to Develop a New Tool to Help Molecular Researchers
If you’re contemplating cutting through a block wall with a hammer and chisel, a powered rotary concrete saw becomes pretty appealing. That’s the sort of upgrade that Dr. Jeffrey Johnson of the Hope College chemistry faculty is hoping to provide to organic chemists by working in the developing field of carbon-carbon bond activation.
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Academics Statistics Textbook Wins Second National Award and Is Published in New Edition for Advanced Placement Classes
A college-level statistics textbook whose co-authors include Todd Swanson and Jill VanderStoep of the Hope College mathematics faculty has won a second national award and will soon be reaching even more students in a new version developed for high school Advanced Placement classes.
2018 Jul
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Academics NSF Grant Supports Research on Neutron Stars
Science fiction has humankind traveling among the stars, but back on 21st-century Earth that’s not happening yet, presenting a challenge to researchers hoping to better understand celestial objects trillions of miles away.
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Hope Psychology Asst. Professor Daryl Van Tongeren weighs in for @washingtonpost on why the world was so captivated… https://t.co/l9wRGi4oDJ
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Academics Kristin Dittenhafer-Reed of Chemistry Faculty Receives NSF Grant for Ongoing Study of How Mitochondria Work
First, picture how small an individual cell is — it requires a powerful microscope to see. Next, consider how much smaller the components within that cell are. Then, imagine seeking to figure out how one part of that small component works.
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Academics Lindsey Root Luna Elected to Psi Chi Board of Directors
Dr. Lindsey Root Luna of the Hope College psychology faculty has been elected vice president of the Midwestern Region of Psi Chi – The International Honor Society in Psychology, a role that also includes serving on the society’s board of directors.