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The Anchor, Volume 127.08: October 30, 2013
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
William Jacobs Oral History
No full textWilliam Jacobs remembers working on boats at the Chris-Craft factory. (2.5 minutes)https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1091/thumbnail.jp
William Parker Oral History
No full textWilliam Parker talks about building a SlickCraft boat in the 1950s. (3 minutes)https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/boat_builders/1095/thumbnail.jp
The Anchor, Volume 126.21: April 17, 2013
Get PDFThe Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular
Keeping An Old Library New: Academic Libraries in the 21st Century
Get PDFWhen the Van Wylen Library opened in January of 1988, it was a beautiful state-of -the-art academic library. Designed by Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott of Boston, it was awarded the Award of Excellence for Library Architecture from the American Institute of Architects. It had moved to an automated library information system (ILS) including an online catalog, the year it opened and was designed based on the latest technology of the time. We all know, what has happened in the 25 years since. The age of digital information has hurtled us down a path of change, so revolutionary, so fast that many have predicted that libraries will cease to exit. While the reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated, academic libraries have changed dramatically in the past 25 years. This presentation gives an overview of the physical, technological and social changes that have kept the Van Wylen Library an exceptional academic library in the 21st century
The Phage Genomics Research Program - Authentic Research for First Year Students
Get PDFThe Hope College Department of Biology is entering its 6th year of the Phage Genomics Research Honors Laboratory course offered to first-year college students as an alternative to the standard Hope College Introductory Biology lab. This course is part of a national experiment to improve education in the sciences led by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Hope College was selected as one of 12 institutions nationwide to pilot this program. Students for the honors laboratory course at Hope College were selected from a restricted pool of applicants earning high scores on the ACT and/or SAT college entrance exams and showing an interest in science. Lab sessions ran twice a week for a total of 5 hours in the fall (phage/DNA isolation semester) and 4 hours in the spring (bioinformatics work). In the fall, students worked independently and presented their findings in research article style written reports, whereas in the spring, students were organized in teams of three or four, analyzed the sequenced genome, and highlighted their findings in student-driven journal article discussions and group oral presentations. During the first 5 years of the program, 98 of 99 students successfully isolated novel mycobacteriophage from the Holland area and 11 of the phage genomes have been sequenced. The HHMI course outline has been supplemented with additional laboratory and analysis skills during the fall semester based on subject material covered in the standard Hope College Introductory Biology core course. This included statistical analysis (phage plaque size) and microscopy (differential staining of the host strain, M. smegmatis). During the spring semester students have been introduced to computer programming and bioinformatic databases through a series of individual and group assignments. The phage program has been highly successful for recruitment and retention of high quality students to Hope College, the Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, and the Department of Biology
The Leap of Faith: Authentic Greek in the King James Bible
No full textUntil the Harry Potter series, the Holy Bible was the bestselling book since the invention of the printing press. Among the 4.7 billion copies of different translations and variations, why is the King James Version still celebrated as the Book of Books even after 400 years? At the time of the King James’ publication in the 17th century, the English language was being pushed, molded, and compounded in many different directions. It was a malleable hybrid, taking hits, downsizing; borrowing and expanding; receding and maturing into what we know today. The King James Bible managed to transcend Puritan/Bishop relations, it managed to overshadow the most popular bibles of the time and win over the hearts and the language of the country and, in turn, the world. Through verse-by-verse analysis and comparisons with other translations of the Bible, I will prove that the King James Bible best captures the meaning of the original Hebrew and Greek texts with a proper tone of authority that is part of the King James Bible\u27s colossal impact on the English language
Feminist Perspectives of the Eames Legacy
No full textI will expose a feminist cultural perspective of one of the most influential designers of the 20th century. After reading, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin, I became concerned with the lack of acknowledgement for women artists and designers, particularly the work of Ray Eames. The partnership of Charles and Ray Eames has been perceived as an equal collaboration of creativity and ideas throughout their work. Their marriage created one of the world\u27s most innovative designs, which conceived the infamous Eames Lounge Chair , constructed out of molded plywood and distributed to Herman Miller companies. Because they were a husband and wife team in the mid-twentieth century, many feminists and scholars have debated whether Ray Eames\u27 efforts have lacked acknowledgment because of her position as a woman. For my project, I hope to uncloak the truth about the Eames team collaboration. In order to do this, I will begin to introduce Ray Eames’ life before Charles, analyze cultural feminism problems in the art world, and highlight Ray\u27s major contributions to the Eames Legacy
A Toxic Ride Through the Pumpkin Patch: Identification of Cytotoxic Genes in Mycobacteriophage Pumpkin
No full textMycobacteriophages are viruses that infect mycobacterium host cells. With more than 200 mycobacteriophage genomes sequenced and available in GenBank, they represent the largest collection of sequenced phages that infect a single host (Mycobacterium smegmatis). Surprisingly however, they are genetically diverse and contain many genes of unknown function. This fact begs the question of how the different mycobacteriophages accomplish the host-cell takeover that supports infection and phage propagation. One way to tackle this problem is to first identify phage genes that are cytotoxic when expressed individually in the host cell. We hypothesize that cytotoxic phage genes will encode proteins that interact with and affect the function of critical host cell proteins. We are using this approach on a mycobacteriophage called Pumpkin, which was isolated at Hope College in 2008. We have identified a small genomic region, encompassing genes gp115-120 that is cytotoxic to M. smegmatis. Subsequent division of this region further identified gp115 and the region gp117-120, possibly centered on gp119, as possessing cytotoxic activity. Neither gp115 nor gp119 from mycobacteriophage Pumpkin have assigned functions and appear to only match other mycobacteriophage proteins. Future work will include further testing of individual genes in this region