Hiram College

Hiram's Isabella Caceres added another accolade to her first collegiate season this past Saturday, as the North Coast Athletic Conference named the Cypress, CA native to the NCAC All-Tournament Team following a pair of strong outings against Denison in the quarterfinals and DePauw in the semifinals.

Hiram's Brooke Hickman was named an All-NCAC Second Team selection on Tuesday afternoon, marking the senior's first ever second team selection after back to back seasons as a third team selection. With three career all-conference awards, Hickman joins Cassie Bedard as the only student-athletes in program history to be an All-NCAC selection in at least three different seasons.

First-year, Alisah Ward '28, from Conway, AR, was recognized this week by the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) for setting a new program record for Hiram College indoor track and field on Friday, February 21, 2025 at the Mount Union Tune-Up. The NCAC Athlete of the Week round-up can be found here.

Hiram College is proud to recognize academic excellence by naming high achieving students to the Fall 2024 Dean's List. This prestigious honor recognizes students who have completed 12 or more hours of graded coursework with a semester grade point average of 3.6 or better.

Fifteen Hiram College sport management undergraduate students and two Hiram faculty members recently had the experience of a lifetime working in New Orleans at the 2025 Super Bowl Experience. The Hiram cohort was in New Orleans from February 5 to February 10 assisting with the Super Bowl Experience and Campus Fan Experience on gameday for Super Bowl LIX. The group's duties varied day-to-day, but some of their experiences included fan engagement, ticket verification, red carpet management, activities management, and wayfinding.

The College Sports Communicators (CSC) recently released their Academic All-District Teams for football, men's soccer, women's soccer and women's volleyball, a presitigious honor for student-athletes who excel both on the field and in the classroom. To qualify, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore (academically and athletically) and hold a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.50. The student-athlete must also compete in at least 90 percent of the intuition's games or have started in at least 66 percent of the institution's games for that particular season.

Hiram's Sam Volpe continued to rewrite the record books this past Saturday at the Wuske Invite in Alliance, breaking her own indoor program record in the shot put and placing fourth in a field that was led by a pair of Division II athletes at Slippery Rock University.

Hiram College hosted its annual Nursing Uniform Convocation to honor sophomore Bachelor of Science in nursing students as they begin their clinical rotations. The celebration acknowledges each student's commitment to serving others through their career in professional nursing. Students received their uniforms, a nursing pin, and shared their pledges of commitment to the practice.

A historic night and dramatic finish made up Hiram's mid-week performance against Oberlin at Price Gymnasium, as Brooke Hickman became the 10th player in program history to reach 1,000 career points and the Terriers nearly won on a last-second 3-pointer in a 69-67 loss to the Yeowomen.

Hiram College congratulates 25 students who earned their academic degrees on December 21, 2024. Hiram College celebrates the successes of these students on and off campus as they move into their next stage of life.

Hiram College recently announced the winners of the annual Lindsay-Crane Creative Nonfiction Contest, judged by Athena Dixon! Athena Dixon is the author of the essay collections The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Split/Lip Press 2020) and The Loneliness Files (Tin House 2023). Her poetry chapbook, No God in This Room, was the 2018 Winner of the Argus House Press Intersectional Midwest Chapbook Contest. Athena's craft work appears in Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books 2022) and her poetry is included in the anthology The Breakbeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books 2018).

Since all Field Station summer student workers are required to do a research project, the Animal Care & Husbandry department produces a plethora of interesting research posters that are presented at both the College's Celebration of Experiential Learning in September and the Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitator's Association Conference in November. One research project that spanned departments and will continue to be an on-going project at the Field Station is the Snake Fungal Disease (SFD) research led by senior, Claire Partin.

Hiram does it again! For the third year in a row, Hiram College's integrative exercise science students have won the Midwest American College of Sports Medicine (MWACSM) Quiz Bowl competition. Hiram is the first school to ever accomplish this at the Midwest regional level of the competition. Once again, Hiram College will move on to the next round of competition at the National American College of Sports Medicine Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in May.

Lorna Metzger '25, a creative writing major, has always been passionate about getting involved in her community and connecting with other Hiram College students. One of the many reasons Metzger chose to attend Hiram back in 2021 was for study abroad opportunities that would be offered to her during Hiram's unique 3-week term. Thus, when the opportunity presented itself to travel to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Metzger knew she had to go. This started her search for study abroad scholarships and grants. Metzger made it a goal to find outside scholarships for study abroad to front the cost of her academic trip. In her application process, Metzger and Matthew Notarian, Ph.D., assistant professor of classics and director of study abroad, decided on applying for the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.

Hands-on experiences are at the helm of a Hiram College education. This can come in many forms, one of them being students conducting and research projects and then being tasked with presenting their work. In early November, animal-care and husbandry student-workers from the James H. Barrow Biological Field Station joined Hiram's Curator of Animal Programs, Rebecca Moore, at the Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitation Association's conference in Columbus, Ohio.

The Garfield Center for Public Leadership prepares students to assume the responsibilities of public leadership by developing expertise in matters of public policy, foreign and domestic, grounded in Hiram's traditional liberal arts education. The 2024 scholars will participate in crisis simulations, seminars, and international travel all while studying timely topics in politics and international affairs.

Hiram is one of a select number of colleges and universities to participate in the prestigious Choose Ohio First Scholarship program. Sponsored by the Ohio Department of Higher Education, the program's goal is to increase the number of Ohio students pursuing majors and careers in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine). Students accepted and enrolled into Choose Ohio First at Hiram receive benefits such as being entered into a STEM-centered community of fellow scholars, professional development opportunities, scholarship and research engagement, and scholarships for attendance.

Hiram College is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 Dean's List. Hiram College names students to the Spring 2024 Dean's List for their academic achievements. Dean's List recognition is awarded to students who, during each semester, complete 12 or more hours of graded coursework at Hiram College with a semester grade point average of 3.6.

As Hiram College's earliest and most festive tradition, Sugar Day continues to demonstrate scholarship, showcasing students' work, research, presentations, and academia. On April 4, 2024, the College celebrated another eventful Sugar Day, welcoming over 150 student presenters representing campus, with 17 events including musical and theatre performances, oral presentations, poster sessions, and a conference social. Sugar Day is organized by the Office of Scholarly Endeavors, a primary supporter and celebrator of student research, scholarship, and creative inquiry across the College's many disciples and majors. The Office houses multiple, non-departmental, specific initiatives and programs that feature significant student research components or emphasis. It also aims to help faculty and staff integrate student research into their own on-going scholarship.

The start of the spring semester also brought an onslaught of conferences and presentations for many students and faculty across campus. Hiram's emphasis on small class sizes and one-on-one connections with professors means students have more chances to be mentored in their research, often leading them to more public opportunities to flex their presentation and public speaking skills. One professor who places a large emphasis on student's abilities to present their research is Steven Romberger, Ph.D., director, Office of Scholarly Endeavors, associate professor of chemistry, biochemistry coordinator. Dr. Romberger spent several weeks of the past spring semester traveling across Ohio with students Meaghan Stafford '24 and Tayleigh Price '24 to present research and represent Hiram College at several conferences.

Hiram College celebrated its 174th Commencement on Saturday, May 11, 2024. The ceremony welcomed a new class of Hiram alumni as friends, family, and loved ones gathered to celebrate their accomplishments. Commencement exercises included a student welcome from graduating senior Mackenzie Flaherty '24, a political science major with minors in crime, law, and justice and sociology, and president of Student Senate.

During Hiram's term break, four students and Laci Fiala, Ph.D., director of Hiram Eclectic Scholars Honors Program traveled to Purdue University Northwest in Hammond to attend and present at the Mid-East Honors Association Annual Conference. Over 140 students, faculty, and staff from honors programs across Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio gathered to celebrate the culture and benefits of honors. The Mid-East Honors Association is a regional organization affiliated with the National Collegiate Honors Council, both of which Hiram holds membership in.

Annually, the Office of Campus Involvement (OCI) hosts the Student Life & Leadership Awards where clubs and organizations are recognized in various categories, including campus programming, student organization, and campus leadership.

Hiram College's School of Health, Education, Sustainability, and Society hosted its first annual Award Ceremony to recognize outstanding students across the School for their achievements this academic year. The ceremony was opened by guest speaker, Pierra Heard '18, assistant director of enrollment management and strategic initiatives at Case Western Reserve University. Department awards were given in biomedical humanities, sociology, integrative exercise science, criminal justice, and education. The Harry L. Haskins '51 Endowed Scholarship was awarded to two education students. Finally, the psychology department inducted the 2024 class of Psi Chi scholars during the event.

Two Hiram College students were inducted into Omicron Delta Kappa (OK) for spring 2024, the premiere Greek-letter leadership honorary that recognizes the achievements of college students in at least one of these five areas: Scholarship Athletics Community Service/Student Activities Journalism/Student Media Creative/Performing Arts

The Burton D. Morgan Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship at Hiram College annually hosts a series of idea competitions that give students the opportunity to pitch their best ideas. Each fall, the College hosts ideablitz!, an idea generation and development event in which contestants develop an enterprise idea through the creation of a written concept statement. During the spring semester, students examine the feasibility of their concept through the ideabuild! competition.

This year's annual Outstanding Student Employee is Sadie Qualls! Our runner ups are Makayla Thomas and Rafael Rodriguez! Each year, Hiram College observes National Student Employment Week by recognizing our student employees and the invaluable work they perform. It's more important now than ever to appreciate each other and show thanks for jobs well done.

Hiram College graduating seniors in biology were recently inducted into the James Jesse Turner Society. The J.J. Turner Society is named in honor of James Jesse Turner, professor of Biology, 1904-1950, who was a thorough biologist and a versatile teacher. Professor Turner helped establish the national reputation of Hiram College for excellence in the sciences.

The Hiram College Student Body recently elected their 2024-2025 academic year student representatives to serve as President and Vice President of Administration for the Hiram Student Senate. The Hiram College Student Senate is recognized by Hiram College students as the official body for protecting student rights and interests; facilitating student participation in College policy-making; increasing the quality of students' educational and academic experience; upholding the core values of the College in all areas of student life; facilitating communication between students and faculty, staff, and bureaucratic organizations; recognizing and funding student organizations; acting as the active link between the concerns of the Student Body and the administration; representing the student body in College Council meetings and all official college business; and striving to improve the welfare of all students.

The 2024 Annual Juried Student Art Show recently debuted in the Hiram College Gelbke Art Gallery featuring the work of students from diverse art disciplines, including painting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, and video. In judging, the juror looked for work that demonstrated a personal expression or vision, technical skill, and an ability to create a cohesive composition. Winners were selected and announced during a recent awards ceremony in the gallery.