Grand Valley Magazine

Issue Archive

— 2024 —

Wimee, a orange robot puppet smiles for the camera on a teal background. Text in the top right reads 'DIGITAL ISSUE'

Summer 2024

Features: Finding Their ‘Why’ as Musicians | Alternative Breaks | A.I. and Health Care | Wimee’s World

Digital Issue

A native american woman looks off to the right, in the background water laps onto the shore which is a turtle shell. Her hair is intertwined with a beaded turtle and pink, blue and white flowers. Text at the top left reads "GVM."

Spring 2024

Origins Issue

Features: ‘Two-Eyed Seeing’ | Grand Valley ‘Firsts’ | The Toughest Yard | Vietnam

Digital Issue
Spring 2024 PDF

— 2023 —

A mainly black cover of the GVM with an abstract image of water splashing.

Fall 2023

Water Issue

Features: Solving ‘wicked problems’ in Traverse City | Water in the West | AWRI research helps restore Muskegon Lake | The Grand: Uniquely perfect for rowing

Digital Issue
Fall 2023 PDF

Large blue letters spelling GV take up most of the frame, trees with spring leaves and flowers in the background and in the distance the windows of the Mary Idema Pew Library. Text at the top left reads "DIGITAL ISSUE"

Summer 2023

Features: Governor appoints 2010 alumna to Michigan Supreme Court | Academic courses expand in response to climate change | The Johnson Center’s impact on its 30th anniversary

Digital Issue

A man with a surfboard stands on the shores of a beach. In the background is an ocean and a big sand colored cliff. Text reading "GVM" is in the top left.

Spring 2023

Features: Flow State: Ben Moon ’97 | Class assists Michigan State Police with cold cases | Teaching our teachers in a changing environment

Digital Issue
Spring 2023 PDF

A man with a mustache and glasses looks off camera. He's wearing a plaid blue button up. Artistic lights are layed over top of the image in a swirl pattern made up of white dots. The letters GVM are in the top left corner.

Winter 2023

Features: Boosting survival for rare turtles | Mission continues for Laker Vets president | Engineering graduate realizes vision for Medical Mile radiopharmacy | Anchors Away: Study abroad returns after pandemic

Digital Issue
Winter 2023 PDF

— 2022 —

An arial drone shot of the GVSU campus with a dark blue tint. Only the clocktower and the inside of buildings glow orange, including the Kirkhof Center. Text in the top left reads "DIGITAL ISSUE."

Summer 2022

Back to School Issue

Features: Campus housing evolves with student populations | Insider tips for new Lakers | Brewing beer and studying zombies: Unusual courses create lasting memories | Psychology class works with elite hockey team

Digital Issue

a boy in a mask playing a computer game in the GVSU E-Sports room,

A man with a black covid mask on and headphones looks at a computer screen. The athletic GV is in the background and the letters "GVM" at the top right.

Spring 2022

Features: State’s largest hospital system and GVSU break new ground to tackle nursing shortage | Caring for Michigan’s tourism | Level Up: Laker Esports Center provides access to gaming, creates community | Striking a chord: NME performs at national parks

Digital Issue
Spring 2022 PDF

a foggy morning looking at the clock tower on the left and the library on the right from a-far with the sun in the background

Winter 2022

Features: Fossil Clues: Students, faculty dig for fossils in South Carolina | GVSU Police Academy cadets practice mediation skills | SBDC helps small businesses recover from pandemic

Digital Issue
Winter 2022 PDF

— 2021 —

a low angle shot of the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health

Fall 2021

Features: Why students say new DCHI building will enhance their learning | Q&A with lead DCIH donors Daniel and Pamella DeVos | Engineering regatta at 30

Digital Issue
Fall 2021 PDF

a Black student wearing a navy blue suite standing a crossed the street from the Richard M. DeVos Center with the WGVU Building in the background

Summer 2021

Features: Health Campus expands with opening of DCIH | (Wider) Open doors | The Patio: Outdoor space at Calder Art Center becomes a muse, welcoming place | Steel sharpens steel

Digital Issue
Summer 2021 PDF

A man looks off to the right of the frame, math symbols are written in chalk on a blackboard behind him, and overlayed on his face. Image is in a dramatic grayscale tone.

Spring 2021

Features: GVSU at 60: The untold stories | GVSU celebrates 60 years | Delivering serious medical news | Math: Making a difference

Digital Issue
Spring 2021 PDF

African American woman looks upward. She wears a red mask with her sorority emblems on it. The background is blurred fall trees.

Winter 2021

Features: Q&A with Milos Topic, chief digital officer | ‘An educated person helps the next generation’ | Seidman program pairs students with owners to strengthen their businesses | The academic approach to COVID-19

Digital Issue
Winter 2021 PDF

— 2020 —

a back lit photo of a person walking down the stair of the library by the north entrance.

Fall 2020

Features: Innovation Fund grant designed to turn computing program into talent pipeline |
A paradigm shift for the teaching profession | Laker community adapts with safety at forefront | Steps to military friendly campus means building bridges with vets

Digital Issue
Fall 2020 PDF

Digital Issue: A grid of portraits showing GVSU community members all wearing fabric face masks that cover their mouth and noses

Summer 2020

Features: COVID-19 and crisis planning | Stay home and stay safe | GVSU gives refunds, grants scholarships to support students | ‘Like playing basketball online’

Digital Issue

lower 3rd of the image is a women running with dead grass below her, the other 2/3rds is white background/cloudy sky.

Spring 2020

Features: Tackling teacher turnover | COVID-19 impacts spring on campus | Charter Schools: From experiment to excellence | Transforming education in low-performing district

Digital Issue
Spring 2020 PDF

three images, firth one is top left of two white older people male on left female on right embracing each other. second is the top right white woman on the left black man on the right hugging her from behind. and the last is the bottim half of the page with a black man standing behind a black woman facing the camera, the women is looking over her right shoulder at the man.

Winter 2020

Features: Retired photographer gifts collection to GVSU | Laker Love | Social justice begins with me | Thompsons help students from working families realize dreams

Digital Issue
Winter 2020 PDF

— 2019 —

Fall 2019

Features: Mantella makes bold commitments at investiture | AWRI partners with Project Clarity | Seal of Success | It’s OK to go explore(atory)

Digital Issue
Fall 2019 PDF

president of GVSU Philomena V. Mantella, standing and smiling at the camera

Summer 2019

Features: The Meadows at 25 | Students with backstage pass learn crafts of theater | GVPD celebrates 50 years of community policing | Bois Blanc Island: Faculty couple build five structures on rustic island

Digital Issue
Summer 2019 PDF

a crowd of people toasting toward a man and women standing on a stage, we are looking at a slightly elevated shot seeing the back of the heads of the man and women on the stage.

Spring 2019

Features: Servant Leader: Tom Haas | Increasing access to study abroad | Endangered no more | Eat better, move more, smile often

Digital Issue
Spring 2019 PDF

a Number 10 made of wood laying in an arrangement of vegetables.

Winter 2019

Features: From Classics to career | The front porch of nursing | Seidman alumna purchases grocery store in her hometown

Digital Issue
Winter 2019 PDF

— 2018 —

a photo of stephen smith sitting on a orange couch in a white room.

Fall 2018

Features: ArtPrize everlasting | Greetings from Grand Rapids | Wandering seeds: Study abroad to Haiti | Health professions students thrive in new Finkelstein Hall

Digital Issue
Fall 2018 PDF

a black girl hunched over a planter pot of possibly purple kale.

Summer 2018

Features: Global Heights Academy pilots learning garden | Shakespeare Festival: A silver coronation | Peer support for homework

Digital Issue
Summer 2018 PDF

an older white gentlemen walking passed the lake hall buildings while wearing a blue cap and gown. the white twisted sculpture is in the background.

Spring 2018

Features: College dropout surprised with degree | Bringing medical device inventions to market | Laker lineage | ‘A place where all of me is welcome’

Digital Issue
Spring 2018 PDF