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GVSU in photos, August 2022: Moving in, ideal places to reset, a giant 'G' and fancy boots

 Clock tower through a giant blue G.
Incoming students walked past the giant GVSU and under the athletic GV to get to the Orientation Extravaganza on the Allendale Campus on August 6.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 Child sticks his smiling face through the hole of a giant connect four set while his sister and father laugh and smile at him.
Walter Kukuk laughs as he plays "Connect Four" with his sister Sophia Ernst and father, Walter Kukuk, while visiting the Allendale Campus during the Orientation Extravaganza on August 6.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 A person stands with arms crossed, up against the edge of a structure where he grows cannabis.
Casey Kornoelje, '08, owns Pharmhouse Wellness, the only locally owned cannabis shop in Grand Rapids.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Lilac purple shapes flow around each other.
Artwork from one of the two winners of the Foundations Scholarship in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at GVSU is on display in the hallway of Calder Art Center.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
People moving into living centers are reflected in a mirror situated in a pile of belongings on the ground in front of living centers.
Students moving into living centers are reflected in a mirror situated in a pile of belongings during move-in week.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 A person stands behind another person with their arms wrapped around the one in front, both smiling, while a family member looks on from the side.
Hugs are a standard part of move-in week.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 Silhouette of two people carrying belongings into a living center.
Alumni volunteers help with move-in on the Allendale Campus August 22. Movers carried boxes through the doors of Arnold C. Ott Living Center.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 View of a living center from above with people moving things into the building and cars driving and parking to unload vehicles.
View of Kirkpatrick Living Center from above as students, their families, and Helping Hands volunteers move students' belongings during move-in week.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 A person is laughing while trying to eat an ice cream treat on a stick while carrying and dropping a bunch of bins and baskets.
Logan Sewell, 14, drops a stack of baskets and bins while trying to eat ice cream during fall move-in August 22. Sewell was helping older sister Riley Sewell move in.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Mother and daughter hug.
A mother and daughter share a heartfelt moment during move-in on August 22.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
First-year students do the "anchor up" hand gesture during the annual class photo on August 24.
Image credit - Valerie Hendrickson
 The president of the university laughs on stage as she looks as sparkly boots that the student senate president is wearing.
President Philomena V. Mantella laughs as Faith Kidd, president of Student Senate, shows off fancy boots during Convocation August 24. Kidd gave a speech encouraging students to join Student Senate. "You saw my boots. We're fun," Kidd said.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 A person in academic regalia looks up and smiles amongst a sea of other people in regalia around them.
A faculty member in full academic regalia looks up and smiles during Convocation on August 24.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 In a large dark room, students hold up their cell phones with the flash lights on to illuminate the dark.
Students hold up their cellphones during Convocation at the Fieldhouse Arena August 24.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Two children in bright yellow raincoats measure and take notes in an area overgrown with plants.
The children of Sara Alsum-Wassenaar, adjunct professor of visual studies, work on an activity at an event she organized in Holland.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Black and white close up photo of a child's hands holding a round, flat piece of clay that has patterns of straight lines imprinted on it.
A child holds up the clay onto which he imprinted a texture while at an event in Holland. That piece of clay, along with more pieces imprinted by others at the event, will eventually be turned into plates for an upcoming dinner.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 A person is using a virtual reality and hand devices.
Suum Mung, a first-year GVSU student and T4 Scholar, uses a virtual reality headset inside the Atomic Object Technology Showcase in the Mary Idema Pew Library August 24.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 A person sits on a rooftop terrace with flowers in the foreground and the top of the clock tower in the background.
Derek Marsman, a junior studying biomedical science, enjoys the quiet of the library terrace during the first day of classes on August 29.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
 Looking through the windshield of a boat, people stand out on the deck chatting.
Alan Steinman, the Allen and Helen Hunting Research professor, left, talks with U.S. Senator Gary Peters, right, aboard the W.G. Jackson captained by Eric Hecox, AWRI fleet captain, foreground.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Looking through the bottom of a glass table up at a person's hand putting together a puzzle and their face in the background.
Madeline Reitsma, a nursing student, works on a puzzle inside the newly opened Reset Room in Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences on August 31.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 A person sits in a chair at a table down a hallway and is reflected in glass as well.
Kaelyn Kramarz, a senior majoring in medical laboratory science, studies in Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences on August 31.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
 Rain drops roll down a window in focus in the foreground, while buildings on the GVSU campus are identifiable in the background.
A storm brought heavy rains to the Allendale Campus on the first day of classes August 29.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills

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