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GVSU in photos, May 2023: Students travel out West and Up North to learn about water, team up for learning and fun on campus

BY Amanda Pitts
Image credit - Above photo by Amanda Pitts

Jun 1, 2023
People inside a boat looking at plankton through a microscope transmitting to a screen.
Students and schoolship staff study plankton in the water below deck of a schooner (also top photo) operated by the Inland Seas Educational Association. Staff served as instructors and guided students through four experiments.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Framed art hangs on the wall, mostly in darkness, with a few rectangles of sunlight shining on the middle of the grouping of art.
Katherine Brewer's body of work entitled "The Flow of Things" is on display in the Calder Art Center as part of Student Scholars Day.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
People stand around a table holding hands to demonstrate closing an electrical circuit. One person has a very startled and excited look on their face.
Grand Valley student Brooklyn Smithers reacts to a demonstration at the Technology Showcase, located within the Mary Idema Pew Library.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Looking through a doorway, people stand in a living center housing room talking.
Colleen Bailey, associate director of Housing and Residence Life, converses with incoming students and their families while they tour different housing options during orientation.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Two people look at each other joyfully and smile with their arms around each other's backs.
Jill Smalldon, Kirkhof College of Nursing director of communications and external relations, right, shares a moment with her son Sam Smalldon, left. Sam was in a severe car crash in September that left him hospitalized until December 30.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Big blue letters that say "GVSU" stand out amongst a campus of green trees, with buildings and a clock tower in the background.
It is the first spring with the Laker Letters on the Allendale Campus. The Laker Letters were installed in December on the lawn outside the Lubbers Student Services Center.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
View from underneath a branch of a flowering pink tree.
A pink flowering dogwood tree was in full bloom in the Arboretum on the Allendale Campus this month.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A curve of people on bikes, the front person smiling, ride along a lake on a railed boardwalk.
Katherine Raphael-Ortega leads a group of bikers over a boardwalk along the Boardman Lake Trail in Traverse City. Raphael-Ortega was among the students in an immersive week of activities studying and researching water issues in northern Michigan.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A group of people sit at the edge of a rock outcropping, with more rock rising up behind them, dotted with greenery.
Students on the Water in the West experiential learning trip rest on top of a rock at Water Canyon in Hildale, Utah after a 45-minute hike. Twenty-one students are part of the inaugural trip that offers a first-hand look into water issues facing the U.S.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two people on a boat smile up at the views of rock walls around them.
Lillie Waldron and Mitchell Fedewa take a water taxi to be dropped off along the Colorado River near Horseshoe Bend to kayak down river with the Water in the West experiential learning program.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A person flings the water from their hair, the droplets forming an arch around them.
Joel Vogeli flips water from their head after dipping it into a waterfall at Water Canyon in Hildale, Utah after a 45-minute hike with the Water in the West program. Vogeli is studying mechanical engineering at Grand Valley.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A professor gestures toward a projector screen while teaching a class. Part of the projection is falling over his face and body in addition to the screen.
Carl Brown, associate professor of communication studies, teaches a spring session of COM 201 - Speech.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person excitedly raises their fists up and out in front of them in a gesture of triumph.
Chelsea Farley on team Two Raspberries and a Smile, celebrates after beating her boss in the GVSU Cornhole Tournament at Lubbers Stadium.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
Two people joyously hug at an event.
Arisha Coffee's daughter hugs her in tears of joy after her mother won $10,000 at the Michigan Veteran Entrepreneur Lab's Final Pitch Showcase.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
Close up photo of a cygnet with its mother swan and siblings in a nest.
The "Wicked Problems in Sustainability" class observed wildlife, like this swan and cygnets, along the Boardman Lake Trail in Traverse City.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
People joyously high five each other at a table.
Kirkhof College of Nursing students high five May 8 while taking part in their Adult Health Clinical class taught by Kellie Riley in Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two people stand in front of a white board talking.
Landyn Teachout, student employee at the Speech Lab, goes over some presentation tips in one of the Pew Library's presentation practice rooms.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person spreads grass seed along the edge of a sidewalk.
Evan Hartman, who is part of the Grounds Department staff, works near Zumberge Pond.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
Two people sit together at a table with a laptop. One points and looks at the screen.
Students Thien Le and Owen Woltman work together on a computer in the atrium of the Mary Idema Pew Learning and Information Commons on the Allendale Campus.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person holds out a clump of mussels to show the people around them.
An Inland Seas schoolship instructor hands mussels to David Buchanan. Mussels were brought up from Suttons Bay at different depths.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts

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