Native American Heritage Fund grant creates GVSU pilot program to embed Indigenous knowledge into courses
The program includes bringing in community Indigenous knowledge keepers to collaborate and co-teach with faculty members.
Sep 17, 2024
Welcome to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences! CLAS is the largest of Grand Valley's colleges. Our students choose from more than 50 bachelor degrees (and a growing number of advanced degrees) in the natural and mathematical sciences, the fine arts and humanities, and the social sciences. In fact, all GVSU undergraduates build the foundation for their major studies in general education courses offered by our College. It all starts here.
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Many GVSU connections thread throughout ArtPrize
The influence of Grand Valley is threaded throughout ArtPrize, with students and faculty sharing their work with the community.
Sep 13, 2024
New AWRI director to begin role in January
Stuart Jones, a faculty member in the University of Notre Dame's Department of Biological Sciences, has been named the executive director of GVSU's Annis Water Resources Institute.
Sep 4, 2024
Events
CLAS Faculty Research Colloquium
September 20, 2024 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
The speakers will be: Yue Liang (History) "The 1954 Yangtze River Flood, Environmental Technologies, and Disaster Memories." Jeremy Swist (Classics) “Is Academia a Cult? Pagan...
Kate Levy Exhibition Reception: Padnos Artist-in-Residence
September 23, 2024 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
This event celebrates Kate Levy's time as the Padnos Artist-in-Residence for 2023-2024 with a reception & exhibition of her artistic research. During this event, the Department of Visual &...
The 2024 Election: Issues that Matter for College Students
September 23, 2024 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Join Political Science and International Relations faculty, students, and staff at our annual back-to-school open house for a discussion of key issues for college students to consider as we approach...
James Carey Memorial Lecture: Formal Objects in the Anthropocene
September 25, 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A rebooted formalism might be able to provide resources for responding to the civilizational problems of the Anthropocene Era. The study of form, however, is complicated by the ubiquity of forms: the...
Gene Therapy and Molecular Imaging: A Marriage Made in Vivio - The Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry
October 3, 2024 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Dr. Thomas J. Meade, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, will discuss the treatment of lysosomal storage diseases with gene therapy. The heartbreaking nature of these diseases is incalculable....
Non-Invasive, Real-Time Tracking of AAV Gene Therapy via MR Imaging: The Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry
October 4, 2024 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Dr. Thomas J. Meade, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, will describe an entirely new class of MR contrast agents for tracking in vivo gene therapy for treating monogenic diseases....
