The 2017 French presidential election cycle has been as wild of a ride as the 2016 U.S. counter-part. The French elections are held in a different method than the way we conduct them in the U.S. France has a first election comparable to the primaries and caucuses held before the U.S. general election. After the…
A morning filled with activities for children and a keynote address focused on Alzheimer’s disease are among the ways that Hope College is commemorating this year’s National Brain Awareness Week. The keynote address, “The Brain and Alzheimer’s Disease,” will be presented on Thursday, March 9, at 5:30 p.m. in room 1000 of the A. Paul…
Hope College senior John Luke Hawkins of Tipton, Indiana, has been honored as a finalist in the inaugural Global Citizen of the Year Awards presented by IES Abroad. The awards recognize students who studied on an IES Abroad program in 2016 for making an impact through academic, philanthropic or personal efforts during their experience studying…
Asian Heritage lecture to explore diverse intersections of faith, race and identity The intersection of faith, race and identity will be the focus of Hope College’s 2017 Asian Heritage Lecture on Tuesday, March 14, at 4 p.m. in the Martha Miller Fried Hemenway auditorium. The presentation will be by Robyn Afrik of Holland. Using an…
On Wednesday, Feb. 22, as- tronomers from NASA discov- ered a nearby solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, with three orbiting around their par- ent star at similar proportions like Earth and the Sun. The star named TRAPPIST-1 is located about 40 light years away, but with modern rocket technology, it would estimate about 11,250…
Oh, to go back to the days of obviously fake news. The glory days when the National Inquirer would inform us of all the aliens masquerading as celebrities or The Onion letting us know how the “CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years.” Nowadays, fake news seems harder to distinguish. Traditional news…
Hope College has developed an after-school program for middle school students called Step Up, a collaboration of the Children’s After School Achievement (CASA) and TRiO Upward Bound programs for elementary and high school students. It’s a successful initiative that is continuing to grow. Initially enrolling five CASA students who were moving into middle school, Step…
Hope College receives two alumni, Sarah Sanderson Doyle and Josiah Dykstra, as recipients for this year’s Young Alumni Award. This honor recognizes extraordinary achievements for professional endeavor, research, volunteerism and/or involvement within the local or global community made by alumni who have graduated within the past 15 years. Special consideration will be given for those…
The Saint Benedict Institute is hosting “Hope for Restoration: Radical Hospitality and Prison Reform,” a day-long conference on restorative justice, on Saturday, March 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Maas Center at Hope College. The public will be able to do something that the event’s organizers cannot: attend. The conference was conceived…
Deforestation has been, and continues to be, a global problem. Not only does it reduce habitat for unique and often endangered species, but it also contributes quite considerably to climate change. To put deforestation into perspective, take a look at the Amazon Rainforest. Since 1970, 230,000 square miles of forest, roughly an area the size…