A sampling of the people, places, scholarship and varied aspects of campus life that together create the Hope College mosaic.
The joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall is so well known that the prestigious venue’s website even has a page devoted to it. And to be sure, practice is a reason that the Hope College Orchestra is one of only three ensembles worldwide chosen to perform in Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, April 8, …
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Original research conducted by Hope students is at the heart of the exhibition “Saints and Syncretism in Global Christian Art” (Jan. 14–May 17, 2025), a display of works from the college’s Permanent Art Collection celebrating the 10th anniversary year of the college’s Kruizenga Art Museum. There are sound pedagogical reasons for that, with students learning …
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Participating in collaborative research at Hope is a great experience that IS great experience
Inside a box waiting for her on a front porch, senior Autumn Balamucki was about to pick up history. She would eventually receive a newfound skill and appreciation, too. In the summer of 2020, unexpectedly back early from an off-campus study semester in Peru due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Balamucki signed on as an intern …
It has been observed that, throughout history, pandemics have inspired creative minds — to write plays, to postulate new scientific theories, to create works of art. That last undertaking — to create works of art — naturally emanated from Lisa Walcott, assistant professor of art, during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020. Now, a sculptural installation …
Remember when the unofficial start to the Christmas season waited until after Thanksgiving? No more. Now retail stores have Santa displays on the endcaps and “Frosty the Snowman” over the loudspeaker before kids can finish saying, “Trick or Treat!” Into this fast-paced frenzy of commercial Christmas chaos, a group of Hope students, helmed by Bruce …
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When Dr. Gloria Tseng arrived at Hope College in 2003 as a Europeanist with an emphasis on France, her first course in French history was attended by one student. “On one hand, it was a good student-faculty ratio,” she says now, with a lilting laugh. The following semester, history repeated itself: just one student, albeit …
The usual “who-are-you-and-what-do-you-do” chatter of an introductory lunch conversation, those words of nicety that more often than not just scratch surfaces, transformed into a vision of deeper collaboration for four new Hope arts faculty members this fall. Now, just a few weeks into their first semester at Hope, Dr. Jordan VanHemert of the music department, …
Chuck Cusack hopes that the viewers of his works will see that there is beauty inherent in mathematics, and that serious art can be created using mathematical concepts and a very simple medium.
Andrew Niedbala has been dancing his way around the world for a few years now as a Hope dance major. But dance is not the only thing this senior does. He also majors in civil engineering.
