Dr. Deborah Van Duinen, associate professor of English, is expertly equipped to offer recommendations to parents to help their children avoid summer slide. Van Duinen is a literacy advocate.
Category Archives: Faculty Experts
Tree Love on Arbor Day
Dr. K. Greg Murray, Dr. Kathy Winnett-Murray and Dr. Jianhua Li are Hope College biologists who have expert insights about a tree’s worth to our environment’s well-being.
Earth Day
For Dr. Steven Bouma-Prediger, Earth Day is every day. He prefers the term “earthkeeping” since it infers God and faith has been invited into ecological conversations.
IRS Tax Filing Deadline
Sheri Geddes, associate professor of accounting, primarily teaches individual taxation, corporate taxation, and managerial accounting at Hope. Her research interests are retirement preparation and financial literacy.
World Parkinson’s Day
Dr. Leah Chase, associate professor of biology and chemistry, is one of those researchers conducting Parkinson’s disease investigations at the cellular level.
March Madness Tips Off
Dr. Chad Carlson knows a thing or two about March Madness. In 2017, he published “Making March Madness: The Early Years of the NCAA, NIT, and College Basketball Championship Tournaments, 1922-1951.”
World Hearing Day: March 3
Dr. David Myers, professor of psychology, is the author of the book, A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss. In it, Myers writes of his personal experience with hearing loss, interspersed with information about the psychology of hearing and new hearing technologies.
And the Winner Is…
The 91st Annual Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, will take centerstage on Sunday, February 24, in Hollywood, California. Deemed to be the highest honor given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry and popular for their extravagant ceremonies, the Oscars create a yearly buzz around the nominees and show. Most recently, […]
Random Acts of Kindness and the Superhero Effect
Practicing random acts of kindness is emotional nourishment and elevates both the giver’s and receiver’s psychological health. When we practice random acts of kindness, we just feel better about ourselves as do the recipients of our acts which then makes them more likely to be kind and helpful to other people, too. That’s the pay-it-forward effect, and […]
Valentine’s Day and the Scholarship of Romantic Relationships
Dr. Carrie Bredow, associate professor of psychology, focuses her research on the development and maintenance of adult romantic relationships.