鶹Ƶվ has received 2024 Tree Campus recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation, the seventh year in a row that the foundation has honored Hope for its dedication for enhancing community well-being through tree education, investment and community engagement.
In this episode of the Significant Coaching Podcast, host Matt Rogers sits down with Becky Schmidt, the longtime head volleyball coach at Hope College and one of the most respected leaders in Division III athletics.
Jasmine Lowell, who is the international education coordinator with the Fried Center for Global Engagement at Hope College, has been named the 2025 recipient of the college’s annual Vanderbush-Weller Award for having a strong, positive impact on students.
Phil Tanis, former mayor of Holland, Michigan, has been designated as the next director of the Van Raalte Institute (VRI) of Hope College. His term will begin July 1. In the interim, Tanis is serving as a senior research fellow at the institute. Tanis will replace current director Donald A. Luidens who will continue as the editor-in-chief of the Van Raalte Press and as a senior research fellow.
鶹Ƶվ Knickerbocker Theatre will feature four Elizabeth Taylor films in May and early June as part of its Classic Film Series. Focusing on her films from the 1950s, the series will feature “Father of the Bride” on Monday, May 12; “A Place in the Sun” on Monday, May 19; “Giant” on Tuesday, May 27; and “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Monday, June 2. All films are at 7 p.m.
The 16 members of the Hope faculty and staff retiring across 2024-25 have devoted nearly 450 combined years to helping make the college the living and learning community that has shaped young lives for generations.
Prof. Daryl R. Van Tongeren from Hope College to uncover how and whether intellectual humility affects true understanding of other people’s emotions.”
Dr. Robert Ritsema, a 1957 Hope graduate who was a member of the college’s music faculty for 32 years before retiring in 1999, died on Monday, April 21, 2025. He was 89.
Three Hope College students received honorable mention research awards, out of only 24 awards presented to college or university undergraduates from around the country, during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), held on Saturday-Tuesday, April 12-15, in Chicago, Illinois.
A two-day workshop at Hope College on Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, will focus on reading Genesis 1-11 for insights from the biblical thought-world that can provide guidance through today’s thorniest issues.
Hope College sophomore Isla Williams of Elkhart, Indiana, has won an Undergraduate Research Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) in support of collaborative, faculty-mentored research that she will conduct at Hope this summer.
Hope students researched topics ranging from the foraging efficiency of sparrows, to the effect of high-tempo music on sprint swimming, to anti-immigrant violence in the United Kingdom, to Don Quixote and social media during the college’s annual A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity on Friday, April 11.
The book “Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner” by Dr. Natalie Dykstra, professor emerita of English at Hope College, has received the 2024 Marfield Prize from the Arts Club of Washington.
Five long-time members of the Hope College faculty are retiring at the conclusion of the 2024-25 school year.
A total of 13 Hope College students presented their collaborative faculty-student research during this year’s National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), held on Monday-Wednesday, April 7-9, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The latest book published by the Van Raalte Press of the A. C. Van Raalte Institute at Hope College, “Present, but Not Counted: Dutch-Immigrant and Second Generation Midwives Working in Dutch Colonies in the United States, 1840-1940,” spotlights a group of women that author Janet Sjaarda Sheeres discovered were rendered all but invisible by their times even as they played an invaluable role during them.
What started as a second-tier basketball tournament is now a national obsession. We unpack the history, psychology, and spectacle of March Madness
Heather Cornell, assistant professor of dance, speaks on what a student should be asking faculty when researching a dance department.
鶹Ƶվ Great Performance Series will feature the legendary early vocal music ensemble from the United Kingdom, The Tallis Scholars, on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
Jack H. Miller, a community leader and philanthropist whose name is familiar to the thousands who have experienced the magnificent music building that his leadership gift helped make possible, died on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. He was 93.
The combined choirs of Hope College will perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's iconic “Requiem” on Friday, April 11, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
Baccalaureate and Commencement for 鶹Ƶվ’s Class of 2025 are scheduled for Sunday, May 4. Commencement will take place at 3 p.m. at Ray and Sue Smith Stadium, and Baccalaureate will take place at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
Hope College will present an honorary degree, the Doctorate of Humane Letters (LHD), to retired education professor John Yelding during the Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2025 on Sunday, May 4, at Ray and Sue Smith Stadium.
From the hilarious musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” to the charming heart and magical flight of Mary Poppins, and the thought-provoking brilliance of “Primary Trust,” each production of Hope Repertory Theatre’s forthcoming 53rd season offers something unique and meaningful.
Hope College juniors Taylor Laurin of Portage and Sofia Rosenberger of Naperville, Illinois, have both received highly competitive scholarships from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
鶹Ƶվ jazz ensembles, joined by acclaimed trumpeter Kerry Moffit as a guest artist, will present “An Evening of Jazz” on Saturday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
It was Hope College’s sterling reputation for providing students with high-quality opportunities to participate in faculty-mentored research that prompted psychology major Cassie Morse to transfer to the college as a sophomore.
Author Tim Alberta will deliver an address based on his book “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism” on Wednesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. at 鶹Ƶվ in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
Theologian and author Dr. Kevin DeYoung will present “The Story of the Nicene Creed: The Most Important (Extra-biblical) Text Ever Written” on Tuesday, April 8, at 3 p.m. at 鶹Ƶվ in Schaap Auditorium in the Jim and Martie Bultman Student Center.