Career paths after college can often lead to exciting places. Such was the case for Michael VanWoerkom –– a 1995 alumnus of Calvin, who graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. Today,...

Abstraction–– Calvin University’s official computer science student organization –– is hosting its annual Hackathon, a 24-hour project-based coding competition where students will contend for...

Veronica Frans is a quantitative ecologist and current Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. She has a dual master’s degree in International Nature Conservation from the University of Göttingen...

No more than a month ago, Michigan –– as well as most of the Northern United States –– was covered in record-breaking deep snow. Sidewalks were unwalkable, underpasses were unpassable and driveways...

Every year, Calvin’s ENGR-333 students are challenged with a practical question about increasing Calvin’s sustainability. In 2021, it was “What would it take to get Calvin off the grid?” In 2022,...

Imagine being able to take a plane across the Pacific Ocean –– from San Francisco (SFO) to Tokyo (HND) –– and arriving in an hour flat. That very same day, you could get back on that plane, fly...

In the spring of 1998, Calvin University — Calvin College at the time — saw the establishment of its chemical engineering concentration, a groundbreaking initiative led by Wayne Wentzheimer, the program...

Long before West Michigan had been settled by white Americans or Dutch immigrants, there was a creek that fed into a larger, faster-flowing river. The Ottawa tribe called the creek “Ken-O-Sha” —...

Gentex — a company with over 60 current or former employees who are Calvin alumni — has recently opened a tech hub in downtown Grand Rapids with the aim of attracting talent from the area. The Gentex...

As ChatGPT rises in popularity, changing the learning environment of higher education, Calvin professors are making adjustments to their classroom policies. In November 2022, OpenAI, an artificial intelligence...

The Speech Pathology and Audiology (SPAUD) department has moved into the first floor of North Hall as the recently-formed School of Health continues to establish itself on campus.  In October 2021,...