Ian Tjoelker, General Assignment Reporter November 11, 2024
Last weekend, Calvin hosted the second annual Faithfully Advancing Sustainability Together (FAST) Conference. Now in its second year, the two-day FAST conference brings together members of the wider community...
Only one year after introducing four new interest-based cohorts, Calvin has announced that the Sustainability Fellows cohort – along with the Health Ambassadors and Digital Life cohorts – has been...
Every Thursday morning, children between the ages of two and five can be seen scurrying about the Bunker Interpretive Center, located in Calvin’s ecosystem preserve. These kids (and their caregivers)...
Ethan Meyers, General Assignment Reporter September 18, 2023
New programs like battery recycling and compost in dorm kitchens are designed to help students on campus keep recyclables and organic waste from going to the landfill.
Food waste from the dining halls...
The engineering department is introducing a energy, environment and sustainability (EES) concentration and a mechatronics concentration in the fall of 2024.
Energy, environment and sustainability
According...
David Ogboro, Science & Technology Reporter January 18, 2023
Calvin is set to introduce a new cohort, called Sustainability Fellows, that will give students an opportunity to dive deeper into environmental-related issues.
The new cohort, meant for students...
Former President Michael Le Roy signed a Climate Action Commitment in 2017, and the university’s current strategic plan holds environmental sustainability as a key value. But sustainability is hard to...
President-elect Wiebe Boer will be inaugurated at a ceremony on campus this week. Boer was appointed by the Board of Trustees in March after a six-month search.
Inauguration events have been themed...
Recycling bins will once again be dispersed across campus by early December. COVID-19 restrictions, not staffing reductions, have been the main source of delays in reintroduction of campus-wide recycling,...
This fall, Calvin biology professor David Paul Warners and engineering professor Matthew Kuperus Heun released their co-edited book “Beyond Stewardship: New Approaches to Creation Care” which calls...
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...
Last week, the Calvin Energy Recovery Fund (CERF) sponsored a lights-out event, a poster session and a sustainability scavenger hunt on Calvin’s campus.
These events were a celebration of the fact...
