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Calvin University Chimes

Since 1907
Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Calvin University's official student newspaper since 1907

Calvin University Chimes

Posters -- official and hand-drawn -- instruct the residents of Third VanReken on proper recycling procedures.

Recycling at Calvin: Challenges and Student Advocacy

Sarah Sparling, General Assignment Reporter
November 25, 2024

Recycling on Calvin University's campus has been a challenge for years, and students are speaking up about the lack of accessible bins. Maia Peterson, a freshman environmental science major, expressed...

Calvin Jamie Butler spoke on the importance of faith and sustainability.

Calvin hosts second annual FAST conference

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...

2024 will be the Sustainability Fellows' second and last year as a cohort. Photo from @calvinuniversity on Instagram.

Students mourn as Sustainability Fellows cohort admits final class

Elisabeth Stevens, General Assignment Reporter
September 23, 2024

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...

The Saplings meet Thursday mornings in the Bunker Interpretive Center, where they can grow in
curiosity about the outdoors.

Saplings connects preschoolers to nature

Grace Hsu, Guest Writer
October 23, 2023

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)...

Image courtesy of Kent County Department of Public Works

Calvin students can now keep waste out of the landfill

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 new EES concentration focuses on creating and maintaining a more sustainable environment.

Engineering department to roll out two new concentrations starting fall 2024

David Omonuwa Ogboro, Science & Technology Reporter
April 15, 2023

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...

Calvin is introducing the Sustainability Fellows in Fall 2023.

New cohort aims to strengthen Calvin’s core commitment to sustainability

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...

Calvin’s STARS rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Measuring sustainability: STARS and lawns

Maya Oeverman, Campus Reporter
January 15, 2023

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...

Joanna and Wiebe have filed a complaint against Calvin in federal court.

President Boer to officially take the reins this week

Inauguration events highlight vision of sustainability, diversity and community
Abigail Ham, Editor-in-Chief
October 23, 2022

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...

COVID concerns make recycling difficult.

Recycling to return to campus by early December

Abigail Ham, Managing Editor
October 23, 2021

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,...

Warners and Heun's book

Calvin professors publish new book rethinking Christian environmental stewardship

Sophia Morgan, Religion Editor
September 21, 2019

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...

Photo by Matt Halteman

Lecture explores future of sustainable food

Amelia Sterenberg
April 6, 2016

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...

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