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GVSU in photos, October 2022: Tombstones, favorite studying spots and why we love fall

BY Amanda Pitts
Image credit - Top photo by Amanda Pitts

Nov 1, 2022
A red piece of art made up of spikes sits on a white square column against a dark blue background with shadows across the back.
A piece of student artwork on display in the Calder Art Center is dappled with the afternoon sunlight.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two people dressed in blue lab coats and safety glasses laugh and smile in a lab setting.
Katherine Tellier, left, and Co Nguyen, right, applied Medical Device Institute (aMDI) lab engineers laugh together as they work in Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences October 21.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
People walking through campus surrounded by colorful autumn leaves.
Students walk through campus near the Transformational Link on October 10.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Sunlight through fog lights up the left side of the frame, while a fountain in a pond are in cool shadow on the right side. In the background a person walks in front of a building.
A student walks by the Kirkhof Center the morning of October 27.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Water flows from a tiered fountain in the foreground while a person walks in front of a building in the background.
A student walks past the fountain in front of Padnos Hall of Science on a sunny October day.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Colors of LGTBQ flags reflect on the rippling water of a pond.
The Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center is reflected in the Zumberge Pond on GVSU's Allendale Campus.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
People are bending over scrubbing on a line of old headstones at a cemetery.
Faculty and staff members gently scrub old headstones during the CECI Oakhill Cemetery Arboretum Certification Volunteer Event on October 7.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Viewed from above from a window, a person walks along a patterned sidewalk, their shadow prominently showing on the ground.
A person is seen walking past the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health on GVSU's Health Campus October 21.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A young student looks up at a teacher, while the teacher looks back at the student, both with smiles on their faces.
Karen Niemchick, assistant professor for the Master of Public Health program at GVSU, right, helps a Stocking Elementary School student work on an exercise that focuses on one of the eight dimensions of wellness.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A person is sitting down bending over some papers.
Sophomore biomedical sciences major Chanel Hill does homework outside on October 24.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A person poses with hands on hips looking off into the distance with fall color and a building behind them.
Junior David Buchanan poses for a photo on the campus of the Traverse City Regional Center on October 24.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Drone angle of campus showing buildings, clock tower, orange and red trees and zig-zagging sidewalks.
View of the center of campus from above on October 13.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Backlit gravestones on a frosty hill with trees with yellow leaves in the background. One of the gravestones says the word "dead" on it.
Tombstones decorate the lawn in front of the Calder Art Center. Earlier in October, a tombstone-making workshop was hosted by Brett Colley, a professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts, and was open to students, alumni, staff and faculty.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
The backs of two people walking away through fall color wearing backpacks.
Students walk through the fall color in the Great Lakes Plaza on the Allendale Campus October 10.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Clock tower lit up at night, seen through some scraggly creepy looking trees.
A cloudy sunrise cast a warm glow on the Cook Carillon Tower on October 24.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Three students sit around a table in a building with diagonal streaks of light and shadow above them.
Nursing students, pictured from left, Makayla Sanchez, Patricia Schlutt and Dorothy Assaff take a lunch break between classes on the fifth floor of the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health on October 26.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Students study at a table, viewed through a window from above.
Classmates Hannah Schrauben, left, and Nicholas Ryszawa, right, work on writing lab reports for their microcontroller programming and applications class while studying in the Richard M. DeVos atrium on GVSU's Pew Campus October 4.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A person sands down a surface surrounded by backlit dust in the air around them.
Faculty and Staff volunteered their time and labor at the CECI Oakhill Cemetery Arboretum Certification Volunteer Event on October 7.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
Colorful leaves frosted on the edges with frosted grass underneath the leaves.
One of the first frosts of the season clung to the fallen autumn leaves on GVSU's Allendale Campus October 27.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills

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