Hope College’s Markets & Morality student organization will host a viewing of Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, followed by a discussion with the film’s writer-director — Meredith Bragg — on Monday, Feb. 2 starting at 7 p.m., at the Knickerbocker Theater in downtown Holland.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Lecture featuring Dr. Jemar Tisby, The New York Times bestselling author of “The Color of Compromise,” was held on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026.

The Saint Benedict Institute will host a lecture by Dr. Jared Ortiz, titled “The Monk and the Machine: How St. Benedict Can Help Us Preserve Our Humanity in the Digital Age,” on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium at Graves Hall on the Hope College campus in Holland.

Dr. James M. Gentile, an internationally respected leader in science education who served at Hope for 30 years, passed away at the age of 79 on Jan. 9, 2026, in Zeeland, Mich.

The Registrar’s Office is pleased to announce Dean’s List recipients for the spring semester. The Dean’s List is awarded to full-time, degree-seeking students who have received grades for all courses in a given semester (no incompletes) and have a semester GPA of 3.50 or above.

The Hope College Deans' Council and Status Committee announced the naming of four faculty to endowed professorships:

Patrick Gentile, Ph.D., assistant professor of Communication at Hope College, was named the winner of the 2025 Lawrence Wenner Emerging Scholar Award, given by the Communication & Sport Division of the National Communication Association (NCA).