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Girls in Training
Calvin volleyball players are teaching local middle-school girls a holistic approach to health. March 19, 2012 | Andrew Knot

Let the bidding begin: annual service auctions
Calvin's residence halls auctioned off homemade goods—and offbeat services—to benefit the NGOs they partner with. December 13, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Collegium plays Du Fay
For its recent Center Art Gallery concert, early music ensemble Collegium Musicum performed the work of a Renaissance great. December 07, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Sunday Go to Meetin': one class, four plays
The plays in "Sunday Go to Meetin'" are student acted and student directed. November 23, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Apples, ants and mushrooms at the Bunker
The fall 2011 installment of Critters and Company brings children and their caregivers outside to foster a lifestyle of connection with the natural world. November 03, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

International student in the executive chair
Nana Owusu-Achau is mid-way through a historic first semester as student body president. October 25, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Re-invented lives: play tackles the aftermath of divorce
A new play by a CAS professor explores divorce using humor, music and karaoke. October 12, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Dumpsters and confessionals
The Calvin community is getting rid of the objects that ensnare them as part of Confession Week. October 05, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Student senate launches bike share
Forty more students signed up for the semester loan than senate had bikes for. October 03, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

American Frontiers, Global Perspective
A conference, funded by a $133,150 NEH grant will put the myth of the American West in global perspective. September 16, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Vampire catechism: heaven, hell and the undead
For English professor Jennifer Williams, vampires have a lot to say about our culture's views on religion and salvation. September 09, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

41 years of music-making
After four decades, Knollcrest Music Camp continues to evolve, becoming more rigorous as it holds on to its long tradition of expert teaching and fun. August 11, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Researching Great Lakes waterbirds
For 20 years, biology professor Keith Grasman has studied the effects of pollution on Great Lakes gulls, herons and terns. July 11, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Real basketball at Summer Slam 2011
A buzzer sounded, and Calvin’s third-annual Summer Slam was underway. June 30, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Exuberant scholars: Entrada 2011 begins
71 Entrada Scholars from the United States and China have come to Calvin for a month-long summer course. June 23, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Achieving Mobility
A senior design team spent two semesters, an estimated 1,800 hours and at least two all-nighters designing a motorized stroller for a particular customer: Isaac Postma. June 17, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

The Brigadiers: Calvin students in Panama
A group of Calvin students spent the last week of May in Panama with the Calvin chapter of Global Business Brigades (GBB). June 06, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Blessing and surprise: music major wins scholarship
Rasendrahasina received the Betty Van Andel Scholarship. The $2,500 scholarship was the largest awarded by Opera Grand Rapids this year. May 31, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Moving into the ISRx
Student researchers are making themselves at home in the science division's new 4,450 square-foot lab. May 24, 2011 | Andrew Steiner , Myrna Anderson

Paradise Re-worked
Calvin senior Matthew Koh wrote a novel for his honors thesis, a retelling of the fall of man. May 12, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Studying in Perugia via Sister Cities
Two Calvin seniors are studying in Perugia, Italy via an award from Grand Rapids Sister Cities International. April 26, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Hamlet: playing with tragedy
Calvin Theatre Company is helping Shakespeare's moody Dane to discover the "concept of play." April 07, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

HPERDS moves online
“We’re very enthused. I like to think of it as allowing students to clasp the crag with virtual hands.” April 01, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Calvin ROTC members win honors
Four Calvin ROTC members won the The German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency at a recent competition. March 30, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Women in Calvin History
Read about Calvin's longest-working woman as we continue our celebration of Women's History Month. March 04, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Naked Trees and Winter Twigs
Families and students learn how trees survive the winter at the Bunker Interpretive Center. January 28, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

MLK Young Leaders Weekend
Fifteen Grand Rapids high school students arrived on campus Friday night to begin a weekend of reflection on Dr. King’s work. January 17, 2011 | Andrew Steiner

Marketing the Browns
Calvin Junior Sarah Orndorff spent the summer learning about "fan avidity" while working for the Cleveland Browns. October 08, 2010 | Andrew Knot