Herman Sullivan, a neurologist from Mercy Health, presented on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) to a crowd of students and faculty members in the Meeter Center Lecture Hall on Monday. The audience consisted...

Changes are coming to the Calvin Ecosystem Preserve this summer. According to Program Manager Jeanette Henderson, the area surrounding the Bunker Interpretive Center is set to be altered to include a native...

Two Calvin professors want to change the way people think about environmental stewardship. In fact, they want new word altogether. Engineering professor Matthew Heun and biology professor David Warners...

Chris Wieringa said he’s been busy lately. The Calvin computer science lab manager has been hard at work assembling and testing the newest addition to the Calvin computer lab — a bright red supercomputer...

10 pre-health students flew to Rehoboth, N.M. for a service trip that they say caught them by surprise. The student-led group was spearheaded by public health senior Thuy-Tien Nguyen and biochemistry...

Next Wednesday, two Calvin computer science clubs will put on their second Raspberry Pi workshop. It will feature a tutorial on building a device capable of object detection using the credit card-sized,...

Mark Bjelland has established himself in his almost five years in the GEO department as a professor who can get students to volunteer for ungraded field trips, who is passionate about building more livable,...

Andrew Vanden Heuvel ’04 says that he was always “the guy.” He was “the astronomy guy” while studying at Calvin or “the asteroid guy” for a discovery he made from Calvin’s observatory....

This past January, biology professor Amy Wilstermann and chemistry and biochemistry professor Rachael Baker taught their first rare diseases interim course. The course centered on research into diseases...

Every few weeks, Chimes publishes an interview with a science division professor to get to know them: their personalities, their research and their aspirations. We sat down with professor Matthew Heun...

As Calvin’s outward-facing image continues to receive updates, Calvin.edu got a new front page, complete with a looping video and quick links for prospective students. Faculty and students are reacting...

Last Friday, students who participated in science research over the past summer presented at the science division poster fair, hosted on four floors of DeVries Hall. Projects ranged widely from study of...

Every few weeks, Chimes publishes an interview with a science division professor to get to know them: their personalities, their research and their aspirations. This week, we sat down with Jason VanHorn,...

Thanks to a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, Calvin will welcome another supercomputer onto campus this January, replacing Dahl, the current machine. Built in 2008 for about $150,000, using...

Each week, Chimes is sitting down with science department faculty and students to hear about their research,  their aspirations, their fears and the gritty details. This time, Chimes got the chance to...

On Monday, Larry Molnar, Calvin astronomy and physics professor, gave his most recent talk about his now famous prediction: a converging, contact binary star. If the prediction comes true in 2022, he and...

Over a hundred Calvin students and dozens of faculty participated in on-campus research this past summer. Largely falling within the science division or as part of McGregor Undergraduate Research Program,...

She sits in the swivel chair at Commons and looks students in the eye as they approach. Her cheerful voice never fails to ring out a variation of “Hi” or “How ya doing?” Nancy Rinks has been...