Hanover College has received a Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Through the grant, Hanover will lay the foundation for the creation of a Center for Digital Humanities to support the integration of digital resources into the liberal arts curriculum. The Spotlight on Humanities in Higher
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The final months of a college career can be emotion-laden, blending weeks filled with studies, comprehensive exams, spring break, job searches, interviews, graduation and, eventually, dreaded goodbyes. As her final collegiate stretch run started to come into full view, things took a distinct detour for Ashlee Goodpaster ’24 in early January. Goodpaster, a double major
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Hanover College has been selected by the Institute of International Education (IIE) to receive an American Passport Project grant. The financial award will enable 25 qualified students to obtain their first U.S. passport and will open the pathway to study abroad. The IIE American Passport Project creates greater access to international education opportunities by removing
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Anjolaoluwa Favour Oyebadejo ’24, Meredith Shepherd ‘24 and Kennedi Burroughs ’24 headlined award recipients at Hanover College’s 87th-annual Honors Convocation. The trio was joined by Anthony Miller and Xiaolong Wu, who earned top faculty honors at the event, held April 11 in Fitzgibbon Recital Hall, Lynn Center for Fine Arts. Photo Gallery Oyebadejo, Shepherd and
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April 3 marks the 50th anniversary of the violent tornado that ripped through a significant sector of Jefferson County, Ind., striking the Hanover College campus at 3:51 p.m. The storm was part of the famed April 3, 1974, Super Outbreak, which included nearly 150 confirmed tornadoes in 13 U.S. states and Canada during an 18-hour
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Shadow puppetry, an art form more than 2,000 years old, will be celebrated during two March events on the Hanover College campus. Esther Fernández, renowned early modern scholar and co-founder of the acclaimed Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe, will present “Puppets in the Spanish Golden Age” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 26, in Science Center, room 137.
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The Hanover College Theatre Department will present “Little Women: The Broadway Musical” during a special six-show run in mid-March. This musical adaptation of an iconic American novel is just the second musical performed at Hanover in the past two decades. “Little Women: The Broadway Musical” is based on the beloved 19th-century work by American novelist
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Johns Hopkins University bioethics professor, author and speaker Travis Rieder ‘04 will return to the Hanover College campus Tuesday, March 12, to discuss his upcoming book, “Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices.” Rieder is an associate research professor at Johns Hopkins’ Berman Institute of Bioethics and serves as director
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Environmental engineer, educator and longtime activist Sarah Lynn Cunningham will visit the Hanover College campus Tuesday, March 5, to deliver the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture. Cunningham, co-founder and executive director of the Louisville Climate Action Network (LCAN), will present “From Smoke-Filled Skies to Smoke-Filled Rooms: Louisville’s Political Battles Over the ‘Smoke Evil.’” The
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Starting in the fall of 2022, Hanover College students began to work with the Asia Institute-Crane House (AICH) to support its Lunar New Year education efforts and activities. This year, the relationship will take a significant step with the addition of two educational opportunities for high school students in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Founded by
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