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April 6, 2025 Vol 121

Category: Stories In Focus

The Boulder Rolls Back into Production in 2020

The Boulder Rolls Back into Production in 2020

The Boulder is back. A lot of students and newer professors may find themselves asking, What’s the Boulder? The Boulder…
Learning and Achieving: The Legacy of Deborah Birx

Learning and Achieving: The Legacy of Deborah Birx

Irmgard Howard, a chemistry professor at Houghton College for nearly five decades, vividly remembers the unique experience of teaching a…
BEST Talks: Guest Professional Dinners Undergo Rebranding

BEST Talks: Guest Professional Dinners Undergo Rebranding

Guest Professional Dinners, those dinners in the south end of the dining hall that non-business majors are perennially confused about,…
Meilaender Delivers Faculty Lecture

Meilaender Delivers Faculty Lecture

On Thursday, October 25th, Dr. Peter Meilaender delivered his faculty lecture entitled “Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language: Confessions…
Houghton Welcomes New Music Industry Professor

Houghton Welcomes New Music Industry Professor

For those who missed his introduction in chapel the first week of the semester, Dr. Jetro Silva is Houghton’s new…
Drs. Giannini Join Philosophy Department

Drs. Giannini Join Philosophy Department

Two new professors, Heidi and John Giannini, and their toddler daughter Gloria, joined Houghton’s philosophy department this semester. Prof. Heidi…
Learning in Sierra Leone

Learning in Sierra Leone

The Kalanthuba Chiefdom is a newly de-amalgamated chiefdom in the Northern Province of the West African nation of Sierra Leone.…
Houghton Students in Tanzania

Houghton Students in Tanzania

What does it mean to “use your heartbeats well”? This was the question posed to a group of Houghton Students…
The British are Coming (Back)

The British are Coming (Back)

It’s an afternoon in late January and a Houghton student is standing in the John Ritblat Gallery in the British…
Student Leader Profile: Hello, Emma!

Student Leader Profile: Hello, Emma!

“Houghton has been a home for me and a place where I have grown and changed,” stated Emma Steele ’18…