Mar 17, 2021 12:08 PM
On Sunday, March 14, 2021, Jennifer Ruth Hampton was killed in a car accident in Holland, MI. Born to Charles and Barbara (Settergren) Hampton on November 22, 1972, in Wooster, Ohio, she was educated in the Wooster Public Schools. She received her B.A. in Physics with honors from Oberlin College, her MPhil in Physics from the University of Cambridge in England on a Churchill Fellowship. She earned her MS and Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University. She was a professor and department chair of physics at Hope College, where she was, first of all, a teacher who loved and mentored her students in the joy of learning.