Calvin will launch two new cohort programs in the next two years. The Sustainability Fellows will begin in fall 2023 and the first group of Health Ambassadors will start in fall 2024. Both programs are...

When Chloe and Christy Martin first walked into their elemen- tary school near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, they wore knee-length skirts and head coverings, refrained from painting their nails and...

Calvin alumna Kathryn Hamilton knew her career path before she signed up to attend Calvin. After working in a Calvin lab during high school, she had her heart set on studying biochemistry while working...

Five years after committing to carbon neutrality, Calvin still lacks a centralized movement to move towards its goal, and it’s unclear whether the university has met its carbon reduction commitments. According...

When the oak stem pushes up from the steaminess of the forested ground, the foliage of the surrounding atmosphere covers its effervescent leaves. Fed by carbon flowing from fungal networks of its mother,...

When military veteran and biology and nursing major Anthony Sickman first took general chemistry, he was completely amazed. He was in his mid-twenties, surrounded by 17 and 18-year-olds. “We were...

Calvin will soon serve as an administration site for COVID-19 booster shots, offering the jabs on Nov. 9 and 10 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The shots will be offered alongside influenza vaccines at Calvin’s...

Throughout the past year, Calvin’s COVID-19 caseload rate has frequently been two times higher than that of Kent County. Calvin has also carried higher caseloads than other colleges in Kent County and...

When COVID-19 shut down Calvin’s in-person classes, physics professor Larry Molnar found himself spending more time in his home office than in front of his Calvin computer. The additional time at home...

Health insurance is confusing. Chimes sat down with Dr. Laura Champion, director of Calvin’s Health Services, to answer common questions students have about health insurance. The conversation has been...

When current Calvin audiology professor Brian Kreisman walked into his first phonetics class as an undergraduate, he thought he had gone to the wrong room. “I walked in, and every single other student...

Next time you throw away your styrofoam meal box from the dining hall, take a moment to think where it will end up. According to Henry Kingma, Recycling Coordinator, Calvin produced over 1,160 tons...

Imagine COVID-testing as simple as ordering Chinese take-out with DoorDash. The Navica app makes it that easy. Abbott laboratories, which produces the rapid antigen tests that Calvin uses for surveillance...

Calvin will host its first virtual Rare Disease Symposium from Feb. 23 to Feb. 27. The symposium consists of weeknight lectures and discussions about issues affecting the rare disease community. A full-day...

When COVID-19 sent college students home to take classes from their childhood bedrooms, there were unanticipated casualties: laboratory animals.  “We had all these frogs,” biology professor Erica...

As COVID-19 vaccinations become available, students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to get vaccinated and continue to wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines. Mass distribution of COVID-19...

Nursing professor Adejoke Ayoola will be inducted into the American Academy of Nurses 2020 Class of Fellows for her work with women’s and reproductive health, according to a Calvin press release. Ayoola...

The Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges recognized Calvin for the fifth consecutive year in their 2021 edition, according to a Calvin press release. The Princeton Review’s selection process...

For the first time in history, two women were awarded a joint Nobel Prize in chemistry on Oct. 7, 2020. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuella Charpentier's work on CRISPR, a revolutionary genome editing technology,...

WeChat, the most popular social media platform in China and among Chinese citizens abroad, and TikTok, a popular social media platform globally, have become points of contention in the past few months. According...

COVID-19 has quite literally upended Calvin’s landscape. At the beginning of August, Calvin installed its very own sand dune to the east of the Prince Conference Center. Since its inception, the dune--dubbed...

Social work professor Kristen Alford and biology professor Erica Boldenow have both been trained by the Kent County Health Department to serve as the leaders of Calvin’s community contact tracing program....

Tina Jones’s foot hurts. It started hurting after she scratched her ankle on a cement step. She covered it with a washcloth, but eventually it got bad enough that she decided to come to the clinic....

Calvin’s nursing program is one of the predominantly female programs on campus, with just 14 out of the 64 students in the program being male. The gender disparity in nursing is due in part to the...

Knollcrest Dining Hall faces closure in a few years, but the much-loved man behind the deli, Ron “Blazin’ Buffalo Wrap” Trapp, is still looking for ways to stay connected with the students he has...

A new Calvin meme page on Facebook that began two weeks ago has reached over 1,200 members, most of them students. “Calvin Memes for CRC Teens” was created by Zach Ashenfelter, a junior mechanical...