A monumental grant of sophisticated geophysics software packages will provide Hope College’s students with opportunities that only a handful graduate programs can offer.

Hope College has named students Caleb Brzezinski of Chelsea and Bryan Forrest of Arlington Heights, Illinois, as 2023-24 Beckman Scholars through the college’s Beckman Scholars Program award from The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

Kelsey Sivertson, a Hope College student who just completed her junior year, has received the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s National Institute for Theater Journalism and Advocacy’s top prize. The national competition took place virtually over the weekend of April 28 and Sivertson was the top performer among the other regional representatives from across the country, earning her a spot in the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

Dr. Brian Rider, who is an associate professor of kinesiology and director of the Exercise Science Program at Hope College, has been named a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Ernest Cole of the Hope College English faculty is one of only 20 scholars from around the country chosen to participate in the Summer 2023 Faculty Seminar being held at Yale University through the Legacies of American Slavery initiative organized by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University in collaboration with the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC).

A total of 57 of Hope College’s graduating seniors and recent graduates have been initiated into the college’s Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest scholastic honorary society.

The book “How Do We Know Ourselves? Curiosities and Marvels of the Human Mind” by Hope College social psychologist Dr. David Myers has been selected for the Next Big Idea Club, a global subscription community that features recently published, thought-provoking non-fiction books — curated by best-selling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink. The Next Big Idea Book Club selections are chosen, the club notes, “as the most exciting nonfiction titles of the season.”

Two graduating Hope College seniors and three recent graduates have received recognition through the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) this year.

A total of four graduating seniors or recent graduates from Hope College have received recognition through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

Michelle Bombe of the Hope College theatre faculty has received the National Kennedy Center Gold Medallion — the most prestigious national award presented by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival — for her career-long dedication to teaching and producing theatre.

Awards and recognitions were presented to Hope College students during the annual Honors Convocation at Dimnent Memorial Chapel on Thursday, April 27, 2023.

A collaborative faculty-student research project studying the impact that college students’ residence-hall rooms have on their mental health has won Hope College’s annual Social Sciences Young Investigators Award.

Student teams from Hope College earned a rare — if not one-of-a-kind — distinction by placing second, third, fifth and sixth in this year’s Lower Michigan Mathematics Competition, held on Saturday, April 15, at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Dr. Maria Claudia André, who retired from the Hope Spanish faculty in 2020 after serving at the college for 25 years, died on Saturday, April 22, 2023, after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder about a year ago.

Original research by students on topics ranging from the accuracy of smartwatches, to the American Indigenous boarding school experience, to sand dune vegetation was highlighted during the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at Hope College on Friday, April 14 at the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse.

The NEA Big Read Lakeshore, organized by Hope College, and the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination, a program of Western Theological Seminary, are collaborating to bring award-winning author Sophfronia Scott to Holland.

A total of eight current or former members of the faculty are retiring this year, one this past December and seven this spring. They have served the college for a combined 249 years.

Hope College has appointed two current members of the faculty with strong backgrounds as teachers, researchers and administrators to academic deanships following national searches for both roles.

A total of three Hope College students have received highly competitive scholarships from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, out of only 413 awarded nationwide.

Dr. Angela Carpenter of the Hope College religion faculty has been appointed to the college’s Leonard and Marjorie Maas Endowed Professorship in Reformed Theology.

Psychiatrist Dr. Louis Nykamp, a 1995 Hope College graduate who is program director for the psychiatry residency and president of the medical staff at Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services, will present the address “The Electrical Brain: A History of Neuromodulation Therapies” on Tuesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. at Hope in the Schaap Auditorium of the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center through the college’s annual John Shaughnessy Psychology Lecture Series.

Original research by students on topics ranging from the accuracy of smartwatches, to the American Indigenous boarding school experience, to sand dune vegetation will be highlighted during the annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity at Hope College on Friday, April 14, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Richard and Helen DeVos Fieldhouse.