Dr. Michael Guillen will present the address “The Four Kinds of Truth,” on topics related to his most recent and best-selling book, “Believing Is Seeing: A Physicist Explains How Science Shattered His Atheism and Revealed the Necessity of Faith,” at Hope College on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.

Dr. Erika Calvo-Ochoa of the Hope College biology and neuroscience faculty has received a Rising Stars Award from the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).

Dr. Marissa Doshi, associate professor of communication at Hope College, has received the Early Career Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association.

Dr. Anna Marie Pyle of Yale University will focus on the new medicinal benefits resulting from increased understanding of how RNA functions through two lectures while at Hope College on Thursday and Friday, Sept. 29-30, through the college’s James and Jeanette Lectureship in Chemistry.

Susan Ipri Brown of the Hope College faculty has been elected to the Board of Governors of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Dr. Ruben Espinosa, who is an associate professor of English and associate director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University, will present “Shakespeare and Belonging” on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall as the college’s 2022 Clarence De Graaf Memorial Lecture.

Hope College and Western Theological Seminary have established a “3-2” pastor-preparation program that will provide specialized training for ministering to underserved communities.

The NEA Big Read Lakeshore, organized by Hope College, will host 101 events across the West Michigan Lakeshore, from Saugatuck to Holland to Muskegon, this November. The events will be centered around the program’s previously announced book choices: “Circe,” by Madeline Miller’ “The Odyssey,” by Homer’ “Zita the Spacegirl,” by Ben Hatke; “Superman,” by Matt de la Peña; and “The Last Stop on Market Street,” by Matt de la Peña. The entire event schedule is now live at bigreadlakeshore.com/events

Psychologist Dr. Christine Edmondson, an experienced educator and diversity, equity and inclusion consultant, will explore how to combat racism constructively as a community of faith on Monday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. in the Maas Center auditorium at Hope College.

The Saint Benedict Institute will host Louis Brown, executive director of the Christ Medicus Foundation, for a talk titled “Religious Freedom and Human Dignity: The Contemporary Crisis in Healthcare” on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. at Hope College in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.

A tantalizing historical might-have-been will be the focus of the address “What if Lincoln Had Lived?” by world-renowned Lincoln scholar Dr. Allen C. Guelzo of Princeton University on Friday, Sept. 16, at 6:30 p.m. at Hope College. The event will take place in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall, and is scheduled in advance of the Sept. 17-18 Van Raalte Farm Civil War Muster.

Dr. Sarah Estelle of the Hope College economics faculty has conducted a state-by-state examination of religious liberty in the U.S. that will provide concrete data for anyone anywhere interested in how free exercise is legally safeguarded — or not safeguarded — across the country.

At a time when differences of opinion seem increasingly difficult to overcome, Dr. Daryl Van Tongeren of the Hope College psychology faculty is part of an effort to find of a solution.

As of 2020, the world has lost an estimated two-thirds of its mammal, bird, reptile and insect populations. This extreme loss of biodiversity is widely considered a sixth mass extinction event. With the global bird population estimated to have declined by 3 billion since the 1970s, two Hope College professors have received a grant from the National Science Foundation for their research seeking to better understand why.