Sunday, November 8, 2009

New enrollment VP recruits ambassadors
November 6, 2009

Russ Bloem '75 recently returned to his alma mater charged with the task of growing student enrollment. He doesn't plan on accomplishing it alone.

Memories of the Berlin Wall
November 4, 2009

Calvin faculty and staff share their memories of seeing the Berlin Wall come down twenty years ago on November 9.

Dancing in the CAW
November 6, 2009

With the Fine Arts Center closed for 2009-10, the student organization Dance Guild was forced to find a temporary performance home.

An evening of healing
November 3, 2009

An organization founded by history professor Bert de Vries is raising funds to support Middle Eastern children injured by American military actions.

Templeton funds values and virtues in China
October 30, 2009

A John Templeton Foundation grant is expanding Calvin's educational horizons in China—and "China-fying" Calvin's philosophy department.

Calvin: H1N1 ready
October 15, 2009

If seasonal sniffles give way to swine flu on campus, Calvin's pandemic flu response committee's got a plan.

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Felch books earns prestigious award

Calvin English professor Susan Felch has been awarded the Josephine A. Roberts Scholarly Edition Award for her book, Elizabeth Tyrwhit's Morning and Evening Prayers. Felch will receive the award, presented by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, on November 6 at the Attending to Women Conference at the University of Maryland.
~ posted 11/6/2009

Tiemstra named Thomas Divine winner

Calvin College economist John Tiemstra has been named the 2009 winner of the Thomas Divine Award from the Association for Social Economics (ASE). The award has been given annually since 1986 and honors members of the ASE who have made lifetime contributions to social economics. Tiemstra, a former ASE president, will receive a medal and a $1,000 cash stipend at the ASE national meetings in Atlanta in January 2010. The association was established 67 years ago in Washington, D.C. to "advance scholarly research and writing about the great questions of economics, human dignity, ethics and philosophy."
~ posted 11/3/2009

Roels named NetVue coordinator

Calvin's Shirley Roels will be coordinating a new national effort by the Council of Independent Colleges called NetVue: the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education. The CIC established NetVUE, through a grant from the Lilly Endowment, to encourage the theological exploration of vocation on college and university campuses across the continent. NetVUE will include a large national conference on the theological exploration of vocation in undergraduate education. It also will host regional gatherings, a NetVUE Web site (with online community networking) and a mentoring and consulting service to match institutions with successful programs to institutions developing similar programs. Roels, director of Calvin's Van Lunen Center, will work with an advisory panel as she provides part-time direction to NetVUE.
~ posted 10/27/2009

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