College
of Computing Speaker Series: Thursday, October 17, noon,
Mackinac Hall, BLL110; Gloire Rubambiza, ’18, postdoctoral fellow at
Cornell University, will give a presentation
AWRI
Seminar Series: Friday, October 18, 2 p.m., Annis Water
Resources Institute; Wenjing Ren, postdoctoral research assistant,
Michigan State University, will present "Enhancing the
understanding of host-associated genetic markers for identifying the
fecal contamination source in environmental waters"; reception
follows seminar
CLAS
Faculty Research Colloquium: Friday, October 18, 3-5 p.m.,
Padnos Hall, room 308; presentations from Tierney Powell, Josephine
Mitchell and Blair Stein
GVSU
Poetry Night: Thursday, October 24, 7-9 p.m., Wealthy Theatre,
1130 Wealthy Street SE; author Paisley Rekdal will give a poetry
reading and participate in a conversation
Kutsche
Office of Local History Event: Saturday, October 26, 11 a.m.-1
p.m., ICCF Community Homes, 415 MLK St, SE, Grand Rapids;
"Community Historians: Telling the GRPS Story Together";
CECI faculty member Leanne Kang joins a panel discussion
Homecoming
Spirit Week: October 28-November 1; see list of dress-up days to
show Laker spirit
Community outreach events, such as the regional Science Olympiad tournament, FIRST Robotics and Local History Roundtable, plus the rescheduled MLK Keynote Presentation highlight March activities on campus.