Calvin University Chimes

Major renovation to Commons Dining Hall postponed to following summer

Alden Hartopo
May 14, 2015

A decision to renovate Commons dining hall has been postponed until next summer, pending a lack of specifications in the proposed project. Discussion for renovating the dining hall began in February...

History of the Calvin Observatory

Ericka Buitenhuis
November 12, 2014

Located up four flights of stairs, through a black locked gate and up a steep flight of metal rungs is the Calvin College Observatory. The observatory is open to the public, students and astronomers alike. Calvin...

Review: Interstellar

Christian Becker
November 12, 2014

Christopher Nolan is one of the most ambitious minds in the filmmaking business, and perhaps one of the only directors to crack the code between thoughtful art and abrasive blockbuster. Interstellar,...

Observatory Corner 10/25/2014

Christopher Spedden
October 23, 2014

Hello everyone, and welcome back for another exciting edition of Observatory Corner for Friday, October 24! Weather forecasts for next week look promising for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, but Tuesday...

Observatory Corner: view Saturn this week

Christopher Spedden
September 25, 2014

Hello and welcome to this year’s first edition of Observatory Corner! Initial weather forecasts continue to look promising throughout the weekend and through Monday and Tuesday, but Wednesday and Thursday...

Curiosity uncovers surprising amount water in Martian soil

John Muyskens
October 3, 2013

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has found water on Mars. Analysis by the rover Curiosity revealed that soil on Mars contains two percent water by weight, meaning that one cubic...

Piece of space history recovered from ocean floor

Andrew Pruim
April 5, 2013

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed the first men on the moon, one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments. While most people associate the Apollo 11 mission with the module that landed on the moon, another...

NASA’s Voyager 1 approaches the edge of our solar system

Andrew Pruim
February 22, 2013

“Space: the final frontier...to boldly go where no man has gone before.”--Star Trek Original series opening. Last week, a meteor exploded over Russia. And while we often forget about “the final...

$12.8 billion granted to European Space Agency

Andrew Pruim
November 28, 2012

In a budgetary compromise last Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) was granted 10-10.1 billion euros, the equivalent of $12.8-13 billion, to continue space exploration. The ESA was founded in 1975...

Space X: The next generation of flight

Andrew Pruim
October 24, 2012

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure...

Observatory Corner: King of the Planets

Sam Van Kooten
October 24, 2012

A poll was recently conducted of all on-campus Sci-Tech writers whose last names end with “ooten”, and in a statistical miracle, respondents unanimously selected Jupiter as one of their favorite things...

Students and professors present on space at conference

Sam Van Kooten
October 10, 2012

Saturday a group of Calvin astronomers and physicists traveled to Ann Arbor to represent Calvin at the Michigan Space Grant Consortium’s Annual Conference. Hosted at the University of Michigan, the...