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When readers of Grand Valley Magazine get their winter issue in the mail, they will learn many things about the university and its community members.

• The incredible intricacy found in the collection of miniatures at the home of Henry Matthews, director of Galleries and Collections, including a replica of Austria's Wiener Riesenrad Ferris Wheel that is one-half inch tall and rotates. (video below)

• How arborist Steve Snell maintained a tree from a willow branch that now stands 50 feet tall.

• The important work of a team of students and faculty members who documented the stories behind the women who played baseball during World War II.

• The cover story about Leah Olsen, ’07, and other women who are narrowing the gender gap in engineering.

• How the process of taking photos of snowflakes involved setting up a homemade studio and waiting for the weather to cooperate. The snowflake photos are paired with poems from students who reflected on what winter means to them.

Read these stories, and more, and watch videos. Click here to see a digital version of the magazine.