Tuesday, February 9, 2010

FAC construction update
January 29, 2010

Take a tour through the Covenant Fine Arts Center at its current stage of construction with Vice President Henry DeVries.

Alumna brings high school students to January Series
January 29, 2010

Sheri Watts brings her English students from an area high school to the January Series each year.

Q&A: Responding to Haiti
January 21, 2010

Economics professor Roland Hoksbergen talks about short-term aid and long-term redevelopment efforts in Haiti.

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RIDE receives $20,000

Calvin received a $20,000 grant from the JP Morgan Chase Foundation toward the college's summer 2010 "Readers in Determined Education" (RIDE) literacy program, which will provide tutoring to 20 Buchanan Elementary School students. Past RIDE participants have showed significant gains in reading comprehension, reading fluency and vocabulary skills. "For us, RIDE is a blessing," said Yolanda Valenzuela, principal of Buchanan Elementary. "Our students lose so much during the summer. Now they come back to school with better reading skills." Calvin professor Judy Vander Woude coordinates the RIDE program, now in its fourth year.
~posted 2/5/2010

Calvin to host February 3-4 water forum

Calvin professors just back from interim trips to Cambodia, Belize and Costa Rica will be among the presenters at a February 3-4 forum at Calvin on issues related to water. Other sessions will be on water use at Calvin, climate change and water, water and religions and even water, the Great Lakes and Asian carp. The forum kicks off on February 3 with Calvin's annual "Re-Gathering" event to begin the second semester. Presenters at the two-day event will include Calvin professors and students as well as local business owners and elected officials.
~posted 1/28/2010

Calvin scientists publish, gain research grants

Calvin scientists continue to be prolific. Professor of chemisty Herb Fynewever has an article in the International Journal of Science Education titled "A Research Methodology for Studying What Makes Some Problems Difficult to Solve." Biology professor David Warners and student co-author Peter Hiskes published "Extirpated Glyceria acutiflora newly discovered in Kent County, Michigan," in the new edition of Michigan Botanist. The paper looks at a plant species the pair rediscovered in a bog in Kent County, pointing out, said Warners, the importance of preserving and protecting natural areas and the biodiversity they hold. And biology professor John Ubels has received a research grant from Alcon Laboratories to continue his work on developing treatments for dry eye disease and on product safety of contact lens solutions. Calvin students will assist him during the academic year and full-time in the summers. Ubels has some 30 years of continuous research support from Alcon.
~posted 1/28/2010

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