Faculty and staff members who have given presentations, were
recognized for outstanding contributions or had their research
published are detailed below. The campus community can submit
a sketch online for future publication.
Sketches Grand Valley's Digital Creator Lab
received an Eye on Innovation Award from Gartner for creating
innovative programming and a system for students to check out media
creation hardware for their digital projects. The DCL also partnered
with GVSU’s writing center, speech lab and research center, allowing
expedited referrals and collaborations across services on student projects.
Nabeeh Kandalaft, associate professor of engineering,
gave a presentation, "Embedded Virtualization on RISC-V with
seL4," and received a Best Paper Presentation Award at the IEEE
14th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile
Communication Conference.
Edward Aboufadel, senior associate vice president for
Academic Affairs, wrote an article, "You
Can Be a STAR," published by the Mathematical Association
of America.
Nicole Harpold, assistant professor of nursing,
received the Pecha Kucha Presentation Award at the Sigma Theta Tau
International Honor Society of Nursing Convention for "Fostering
Self-care Behaviors in Nursing Students to Increase Resiliency,
Decrease Depression, Anxiety and Stress. Harpold also gave a
presentation, "Congestive Heart Failure: End-of-life Symptom
Management," for the Corewell Health Division of Hospice &
Palliative Medicine.
The Michigan Veteran Affairs Agency recognized the university's many veteran-centric programs during an awards event. Information Technology honored three staff members during its service award ceremony.