To lace up a pair of running shoes and run a marathon is no small task, as it requires months of training, hard work and dedication. While many people run marathons or half-marathons for personal achievement...
In the Madison neighborhood of Eastown, Grand Rapids, residents now have an alternative to throwing their food waste in the dumpster. Instead, they can utilize a newly launched composting initiative called...
This past Sunday, the DeltaPlex Arena accommodated an array of vendors, speakers and chefs, as well as over 1,800 community members for the annual Grand Rapids Veg Fest. Veg Fest is a day dedicated to...
Last Friday, students mobilized to celebrate the bounties of the earth by organizing and supporting several Earth Day events held around campus. The campus garden, the ecosystem preserve and the Environmental...
Junior Nydia Langill is currently in the process of training for a swim meet like no other she has participated in before. This summer, Langill will shift from the Olympic-sized pool of the Venema Aquatic...
Last Saturday, Outdoor Recreation hosted its annual spring bouldering competition, attracting more than 40 students to the rock wall to climb, and even more spectators to cheer them on. The competition...
This past January, first year student Morgan Anderson was thrilled to be able put a new book on her shelf. This newly published book was one which Anderson knew very well, familiar with the ins and outs,...
Chimes: So, you founded Dance Guild when you were a student at Calvin, correct?
Van’t Hof: Yes, along with a few other dancers. It started in spring of 1971, and I was a student here at 17 years old,...
Last week, Calvin welcomed venture capitalist and thought leader Bruce Friedrich to give lectures on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon as part of the ninth annual “Animals and the Kingdom of God” lecture...
If you have ever wondered where maple syrup comes from and how it is made, look no further than 1st van Reken — Calvin’s living-learning community dedicated to creation care and outdoor recreation...
Last Friday and Saturday nights, the Covenant Fine Arts Center auditorium hosted two full houses for the annual performance of Rangeela, Calvin’s international student variety show which featured over...
On the night of Wednesday, Feb. 17, Calvin history professor and Honors Program director Bruce Berglund was shot during an armed robbery while walking with his wife in their Alger Heights neighborhood.
Shortly...
On Wednesday, student senate announced on their Facebook that they have appointed a new vice president of administration to serve for the remainder of the spring semester.
Junior Laura Steele, a strategic...
Calvin student senate president Ethan DeVries ended his term early this week, stepping down from the position that he held for the first semester of the 2015-16 school year.
DeVries, a junior international...
This year, Calvin brought speaker Dr. Bethany Haley Williams to the 2016 January Series to talk about her experience founding a program aimed at therapeutically rehabilitating child survivors of war in...
The Christmas spirit was made brighter this past Thursday in downtown Grand Rapids with the annual lighting of the Christmas tree at Rosa Parks Circle, an event that was only made possible through the...
The Entrada Scholars Program at Calvin will now be able to host an additional 25 students due to program supporter Meijer Corporate’s pledge of $100,000 per year for the next three years, double the...
Calvin speech pathology and audiology students displayed their skills and knowledge earlier this month when they won a Knowledge Bowl competition at the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA)...
More than 60 students gathered in the Alumni Board Room on Tuesday night to hear speaker Clayton Cravino tell about his experience at Mount Everest when the earthquake struck Nepal in April 2015.
Cravino...
Calvin and Hope are tied for first place in the second annual College Flu Vaccination Challenge put on by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) with the help of several participating...
As the sun set last Saturday night, Oct. 31, over 150 people gathered in the basement of the Science Building for the Abstraction club’s annual Zombiefest, a night that included several different variations...
Students in Biology 160 traveled to Michigan State University last Friday to examine the class’s newly found bacteriophage discoveries under the university’s electron microscope. The class, Ecological...
Campus ministries hired eight new worship apprentices (WA) to serve for the 2015-16 school year. The WAs are a group of six to eight students responsible for leading worship at Calvin, planning chapel...
