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GVSU in photos, March 2022: Celebratory moments, community-based research and Zumberge Pond reflections

BY Amanda Pitts
Image credit - Top photo by Kendra Stanley-Mills

Apr 4, 2022
A young boy determinedly colors a photo of a cupcake with a red pen. There are lights strung up in the back of the classroom.
A West Michigan Academy of Arts and Academics student colors a photo of a cupcake during the charter school's Festival of the Arts on March 21.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Five Grand Rapids Ballet dancers sit on the stage watching something on a laptop that is sitting on the floor in front of them.
Nigel Tau, Sarah Marley, Yuko Horisawa, Ednis Gomez and Emily Reed of Grand Rapids Ballet critique their dance during rehearsal. Students in Julie Goldstein's animation class created the animations designed to project behind dancers on stage.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A student stands looking at the camera with lined windows behind her and some reflections of the windows crossing in front of her.
Student scholar Rebecca Clark is doing research on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the older adults in our community, focusing particularly on loneliness and social isolation.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Three students in a classroom, two students out of focus in front, the one in the back has his hands over his eyes with a tired look on his face.
A West Michigan Academy of Arts and Academics student catches his breath during a musical theater skit rehearsal at the charter school's Festival of the Arts on March 21.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Young student has her pencil down on her paper drawing while staring intently at it. You can only see her eye and nose and her hair is cascading down the opposite side of her face.
A West Michigan Academy of Arts and Academics student draws during the charter school's Festival of the Arts on March 22.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person stands in a ravine with a measurement tool.
Graduate student Ellen Foley stands in a tributary leading to Church Lake, taking measurements of the flow and depth of the water, on March 3.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person stands next to a glass case full of trophies with the athletic GV logo glowing in the background through the case.
Athletic Director Keri Becker poses next to a glass case housing trophies in the lobby of the Fieldhouse Arena.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person wearing a mask sits across from a person who is reflected in a round mirror while testing out her hearing aids.
Patient Linda Falstad reacts to hearing better as Dr. Nicole Kreisman fits Falstad with hearing aids, with the help of graduate student Seneca Baller, not pictured, March 4. The Community Hearing Clinic at Grand Valley is in Finkelstein Hall.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two ducks swim in a pond with the reflection of the carillon tower in the water.
Two ducks enjoy a swim in Zumberge Pond during one of the warmer days on campus this spring on March 22.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person stands in an arched doorway with their back to the camera and face turned to the right, partly silhouetted but can see their face.
Patty Janes, GVSU professor of hospitality and tourism management, walks through the Oakhill Cemetery office where the Michigan Cares for Tourism volunteer project was held in 2020.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Hands hold a police badge.
Megan Kramer, a former GVSU police student cadet and graduate of Grand Valley's Police Academy, was sworn as GVPD's newest officer on March 9. Kramer's grandma and mother look at the badge before the ceremony.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills

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