Category: Stories In Focus
October 03, 2020
Stories In Focus
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…
June 20, 2020
Stories In Focus
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…

January 31, 2020
Stories In Focus
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,…
November 01, 2018
Stories In Focus
Meilaender Delivers Faculty Lecture
On Thursday, October 25th, Dr. Peter Meilaender delivered his faculty lecture entitled “Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language: Confessions…
September 21, 2018
Stories In Focus
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…
September 21, 2018
Stories In Focus
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…
September 14, 2018
Stories In Focus
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.…
September 14, 2018
Stories In Focus
Houghton Students in Tanzania
What does it mean to “use your heartbeats well”? This was the question posed to a group of Houghton Students…
September 14, 2018
Stories In Focus
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…
April 20, 2018
News, Campus, Stories In Focus
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…