GVSU in photos, October 2023: Fall, in all its energy and beauty, was in full swing

A sun rises over a college campus in autumn
The sun rises over the Allendale Campus the morning of October 23.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A student wearing a cap and gown blows glitter from her hands.
Anna Rabe, a computer science major, has been a leader in the Python Wave Program to help first-year computing students feel welcomed, supported and connected. Rabe is scheduled to graduate this December.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
A portrait of a college student wearing a Popeye shirt holding cowboy boots on his shoulders.
For second-year student David Arellano, family is an integral part of not only Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations, but of all the highs and lows in life. "Dancing has been a big thing in my family," he said, displaying his boots. "Since I was young, that was the thing that we all share together."
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 A college student looks at their phone while walking in front of artwork.
Aastha Guragain, a bioinformatics graduate student, walks near the mixed media artwork "Crown Hall" by Glenn Wexler that adorns the fifth floor of the DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health on the Health Campus.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
College students smile while sitting on a bench in a wooded area with other students walking in the background.
Student Dana Mardini chats with another student in the Arboretum October 11.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A leaf is seen through a greenhouse that is covered in rain droplets.
Leaves fall against the outside of a hoop house covered in rain droplets at the Sustainable Agriculture Project (SAP).
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Students walk through a bridge structure with the fall leaves showing through.
Students walk along the Little Mac Bridge on the Allendale Campus October 4.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
An art sculpture is seen against a blue and cloudy morning sky.
"Heaven and Earth," a sculpture that sits on the Great Lakes Plaza, is seen at sunrise October 6.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Above photo of college students laughing around a table. Bottom photo is a student's eye looking intently at a robo race project.
Above, students Romel Jean Pierre, Dana Mardini, Maureen Muthengi and Aggrey Ngao share a moment outside of Lake Ontario Hall. Bottom, Caleb Kiselica works on a robo race project in their Intro to Engineering Design class at the Shape Corp. Innovation Design Center on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
Image credit - Top image: Amanda Pitts | Bottom image: Kendra Stanley-Mills
A carillon tower is reflected in water on a college campus.
The Cook Carillon Tower is reflected in Zumberge Pond October 6.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A drone photo of a colorful autumn leaves with a blue bridge cutting through the center.
Fall beauty surrounds the Little Mac Bridge, ravines and Arboretum on the Allendale Campus October 24.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Two college students share a yellow umbrella as they walk among yellow changing leaves.
Students share an umbrella as they walk to class on a rainy October 25 on the Allendale Campus.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
The sun rises over a college campus as seen from a drone.
The sun rises over the Allendale Campus the morning of October 23.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person is silhouetted through the window of a college campus building.
A person walks past the windows of Au Sable Hall on the Allendale Campus October 4.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A squirrel stands on his haunches among cut evergreen branches.
A squirrel forages among recently-trimmed evergreens in the Arboretum October 4.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Smiling students crouch among sunflowers and vegetables while taking soil samples.
Students from Peter Riemersma's Earth Matters class take soil samples at Grand Valley's Sustainable Agriculture Project (SAP) October 6.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
College students smile during a lab work exercise.
During a Dysphagia Interprofessional Education lab, student Amberly Jones practices bolus feeding with a syringe, while students Emma Baynes, Jenna Prohaska and Taylor Law look on.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A student is reflected into computer laptops during a lab exercise.
Kyra Shaw smiles across the table at Kyle Smietanski, whose face is reflected in the mirrors, during a Dysphagia Interprofessional Education lab. Also pictured are Jenna Mass, Ashley Clendennin, Abbey Pierce, and Ashley Platek. Speech-language pathology, occupational science and therapy and clinical dietetics graduate students participated in the labs on October 27.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 A college campus seen at sunrise from a drone.
The Allendale Campus shows its fall colors on October 23.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 A student pushes a wheelbarrow next to tomato plants inside a greenhouse.
Student volunteer Jai Ricardo Escabar Jr. hauls mulch to spread between rows of tomato plants at the Sustainable Agriculture Project (SAP).
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Two college students hold up the Mexico flag while laughing together.
Students and friends Jackelyn Palmas, left, and José Medina laugh together while displaying their Mexican flags. When asked what their heritage meant to them, in unison, they both said "pride."
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 A student walks past colorful orange trees on a college campus.
A student walks past Murray Living Center on the way to class on the Allendale Campus October 25.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills

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