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GVSU in Photos, February 2025: Fire and ice, a spotlight on research and celebrating Black history

BY Kendra Stanley-Mills
Image credit - Above photo by Cory Morse

Mar 10, 2025
A professor, seen through words, writes with colorful markers on a lightboard.
Jenni Bourbina, affiliate professor of biomedical sciences, uses the lightboard at the Bridge Studio located in Kindschi Hall of Science February 14. Bourbina was making a video for BMS 251 - anatomy and physiology II. According to the Bridge Studio staff, Bourbina currently has the most viewed videos of GVSU faculty on Panopto, the university's video-streaming platform.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A college student works on labeling seed packets.
Clara Morford, first-year applied food and nutrition student, sorts and labels seeds as a volunteer to help the Kent District Library with their seed library. Morford is volunteering to fulfill her service hours requirement for the Thompson Working Families Scholarship. "We're all working together for this scholarship," said Morford. "It's not my hometown but it's nice to give back to Kent County."
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A person holds a large yellow fruit has a surprised look on their face as they look at a young person inside a greenhouse.
Ottawa Area ISD Young Adult Services aide Patricia Krzywos, left, reacts with student Sara Belke, second from right, after Belke found a lemon inside the Barbara Kindschi Greenhouse at the Kindschi Hall of Science on February 13. Young adults with special needs from Ottawa Area ISD help at the greenhouse every week to teach job skills.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A group of three people with happy faces work on a team building exercise around a table.
(From left) Andrew McDonough, Kendra Ollis and Rebeca Barajas-Juarez take part in the Enrollment Development and Educational Outreach leadership academy on February 14.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Two people wearing blue matching shirts sit at a table while one person claps and laughs.
Alexis Baskin, left, and Antone Williamson, with TRIO Student Support Services, talk with students during the National TRIO Day celebration February 19 in the Kirkhof Center.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
While at Taste of Soul, Rex Greer helps serve the food to the awaiting students in line.
Rex Greer helps serve food to those in line during Taste of Soul February 19 as part of Black History Month events.
Image credit - Lauren Roth
As seen from above, a large group of students dance together.
Students dance together in the Kirkhof Center during Blackout: Black Student Organization Showcase February 7.
Image credit - Emily Riddle
A college student uses a torch inside a metalsmith shop while wearing safety goggles.
Art Education major Maryn Butki works with a torch to make a brooch as part of Jewelry and Metalsmithing Production at the Calder Fine Arts Center February 14.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A person wearing glasses uses a large spotlight outside a moving vehicle to shine a light into the darkness.
Biology graduate student Ava Sweeney uses a spotlight to search for deer as fellow graduate student, Brody Glei, not pictured, drives his truck through Walker and the City of Grand Rapids as they conduct their winter deer survey.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A spotlight highlights a deer in the darkness.
A deer is spotlighted in Walker during a winter deer survey conducted by Grand Valley students.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student wearing a blue helmet ice climbs up a frozen waterfall.
Jackson Gibney climbs the Dryer Hose during Ice Fest February 15. Eight Grand Valley students, including Gibney, attended through Outdoor Adventures, a GVSU Recreation & Wellness program that encourages students to get outside of their comfort zone through nature-based opportunities.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two college students walk through wind and snow past a row of trees.
Pedestrians walk through a snowy Kirkhof Center lawn on the Allendale Campus February 13.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Two ice climbers wearing blue helmets embrace one another after a successful climb.
Hunter Brandt, left, hugs sophomore Emalee Anderson after she completes her first climb of the day on The Curtains during Ice Fest on February 15.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student is seen working on a laptop through a library window.
A person works on a laptop computer while inside Mary Idema Pew Library February 5.
Image credit - Macayla Cramer
A person with their hood up walks past a window as they are silhouetted along with trees among foggy conditions, left. At right, a dancer is silhouetted against a window with their arm poised above their head.
At left, a pedestrian walking in the fog is pictured through the windows of Mary Idema Pew Library on February 27. Right, performers from Grand Valley's Dance and Theater Departments merged to share "FRAGILE," directed by Edgar L. Page, assistant professor of dance, along with Demetria Thomas, assistant professor of theater. The performance was held in the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park's Garden Pavilion February 22.
Image credit - Cory Morse, left, Eliana McGlinchey, right
Two college students high five during a robotics competition.
Computer engineering major Joshua Howery, left, and electrical engineering major Quentin Brook practice for the GVSU FANGV Ri3D Robotics Competition at the Innovation Design Center on February 5.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A college student sits on a bright yellow chair in front of contemporary colorful art on the walls.
Music major Seamus Adams sits inside the lobby of the Haas Center for Performing Arts on February 10.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A person is highlighted against a lit-up shape on the wall as blue and yellow lights spill into the room.
Abigail Diller, an Applied Computer Science masters student, works inside the Atomic Object Technology Showcase at the Mary Idema Pew Library on February 5.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A person wearing winter clothes and mittens gestures to others in front of a frozen snow-covered pond.
Alexia Sisty, a wildlife biology major, gestures across Zumberge Pond to classmates from Will Bower's Natural Resource Measurements and Mapping class as they work on finding the elevations with the help of a stadia rod February 6.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A police officer kneels down to hug a child.
Officer Lucas Wiersma, left, hugs his son, Dakota, 3, after his swearing-in ceremony February 18. Wiersma joins GVPD from the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office, where he was part of the Animal Control Unit.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student wearing headphones works near library stacks.
Psychology major Grace Fiore studies inside the Mary Idema Pew Library on February 5.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A drone photo of a city skyline is seen with an intersecting highway and river.
Construction of the Acrisure Amphitheater can be seen across the Grand River from the L. William Seidman Center in downtown Grand Rapids on February 25.
Image credit - Cory Morse
At left, Grand Valley men's basketball team beat Lake Superior State 71-68 in the final seconds of the game February 6. Shamus Thompson, pictured dunking the ball, notched a career high 13 rebounds, including eight offensive rebounds, and tied a career-high four blocks. Right photo, Ellie Droste, left, and Hadley Miller, standing, react to a call made by the officials during the women's basketball game against Wayne State University February 20. Grand Valley defeated Wayne State at home 85-67 to win their fourth straight GLIAC title.
Image credit - Lauren Roth, left, and Emily Riddle, right
Three silhouetted students walk past a row of trees in heavy fog.
Students walk to class during a foggy start to the day February 27 on the Allendale Campus.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
College students ride exercise bikes in a room full of bright red light.
Pictured from left, criminal justice major Ming Scott, geology major Gracie Erdman, psychology major Ava Meeker and exercise major Kayla Gendjar take part in a FIT-148 Indoor Fitness Cycling class inside the Instructional Fitness Studio at the Recreation Center on February 6.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Two people are silhouetted from the red glow of a Scotty's Hotel sign in a winter scene.
After nightly Ice Fest presentations, people walk the snow-covered streets to local hotels in Munising, Michigan. Eight Grand Valley students attended Ice Fest led by Joe Bitely, assistant director of Recreation & Wellness, who has been bringing students to Ice Fest for 15 years.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills

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