Educator, historian and author Eileen Yanoviak, Ph.D., will delve into the inspirational story of 19th-century Union Army nurse Lucy Higgs Nichols during a special Black History Month presentation at Hanover College. Yanoviak will discuss her book, “The Tenacious Nurse Nichols: An Unsung African American Civil War Hero.” Published in May 2025, the work examines the
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Five Hanover College students offered insights into their recent summer research projects during the seventh-annual Women in Science Symposium. The event was held Thursday, Jan. 22, in the Science Center. The symposium annually features a select group of students who provide an in-depth exploration of their recent research opportunities. Presentations highlight various aspects of research
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Former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb ’90 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during an Oct. 17 ceremony in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center. The conferral was held as part of Hanover’s 98th-annual homecoming celebration. “Eric Holcomb, class of 1990, is no stranger to this campus, nor to the transformative power of
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Roberta Pergher, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Indiana University, will be on the Hanover College campus Saturday, Oct. 4, to present the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture as the keynote address for the 96th-annual Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences (IASS) conference. Pergher, who also serves as director of the Institute for
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The Indiana Supreme Court will travel to Hanover College Tuesday, September 30, for a public session as part of its annual traveling oral arguments series. The Indiana Supreme Court regularly holds oral arguments at the Statehouse in Indianapolis and occasionally schedules arguments outside the capital. Traveling oral arguments allow students, the press, and the public
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J. Lee Annis Jr. ’78, Beth Maxson Monnin ’83, Karl Plank ’74 and Edwin Nartey ’15 have been selected to receive Hanover College’s highest alumni honors. Annis, Monnin and Plank will be presented with the Alumni Achievement Award (AAA). Nartey will receive the Distinguished Young Alumni Award (DYA). The AAA/DYA presentation ceremony will be held
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Historian, educator and author Michael Koncewicz, Ph.D., will be on the Hanover College campus Saturday, April 5, to present the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture as the keynote address for the 45th-annual Indiana Association of Historians’ annual conference. An associate director at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University (NYU), Koncewicz
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Alma Gene Prince Saunders, Hanover College’s first Black graduate, will be commemorated with a commissioned portrait to be displayed in the J. Graham Brown Campus Center. The unveiling will be held at 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 7, in the Campus Center. A 1951 Hanover graduate, Saunders was raised in nearby Carrollton, Ky. She applied for
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Hanover College’s campus quadrangle has earned its place on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, distinction is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate and protect America’s historic and archeological resources. Administered by the National Park
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Brent Smith ’76, a former minister and professor at Grand Valley State University, gifted a small library of books about Abraham Lincoln to the History Department this fall. Smith presented Hanover history professors Dan Murphy ’81 and Matt Vosmeier with more than 50 books. Among the works was “Our Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln. Voices from
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