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ChatGPT: How nearly a year of public availability has changed the academic landscape

Jacob Westra, Sci-Tech Reporter
September 25, 2023

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...

Tech Week Grand Rapids offers unique experience for STEM students at Calvin

Jacob Westra, Sci-Tech Reporter
September 18, 2023

Tech Week Grand Rapids — a large multi-day event focused on technology and innovation in the Grand Rapids area — is starting this Monday and will span the entire week through Saturday, Sept. 23. The...

ChatGPT's unique capabilities pose a concern for educational institutions.

University navigates AI’s new big thing

David Omonuwa Ogboro, Science & Technology Reporter
February 18, 2023

OpenAI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence company opened its new artificial chatbot to the general public late last year.  Experts claim that this new AI chat bot, named ChatGPT, is the most...

3-D printing innovation enables molecular-scale printing

Daniel Dick
March 26, 2015

Recently a team at the University of Illinois in Urbana headed by Dr. Michael Burke tested the limits of tiny 3-D printing technology and made a microscopic breakthrough that has enormous implications...

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January Series speaker Craig Detweiler speaks on ‘iGods’

Britt Botterman
January 15, 2015

Calvin’s culturally enriching January Series is back with another impressive and diverse crop of speakers. Among them is Pepperdine University communications professor Craig Detweiler, who has been featured...

Opinion: Social media as a responsible community building tool

Opinion: Social media as a responsible community building tool

Brian Exner
November 13, 2014

Technology has given people access to things that were once only possible in their dreams. Once we wondered what truly went on in the life of a celebrity. Now, thanks to Twitter, that problem has been...

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DNA computer chip technology

Monica Wood
November 12, 2014

DNA is the best, most efficient and most powerful memory storage unit we know of. All the data necessary to create an organism are stored in DNA using just four basic building blocks: adenine, guanine,...

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CIT removes obsolete technology

Yejoon Chung
October 30, 2014

Computers all over campus have been removed as part of an initiative by Calvin’s IT department to eventually replace broken and outdated technology. While some students have noticed the absence, the...

IBM: neural microchip technology

Monica Wood
October 30, 2014

In the years since engineers first began making circuits using transistors (three-terminal devices made of a semi-conducting materials like silicon) the number of transistors on a circuit board has followed...

Meijer installs new automatic checkout lanes

Grace Ruiter
April 9, 2014

Meijer Inc. is hoping a new checkout system being tested out at its Jenison location will speed up the checkout process for customers. Installed in the 550 Baldwin St. store on Thursday, April 3, the high...

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