GVSU in photos, March 2023: Impactful research, children's bright smiles
and an honorable Laker visitor
BY Amanda Pitts
Image credit - Photo by Kendra Stanley-Mills
Apr 3, 2023
Charlie Olson and Leo Obregon play together at the Children's Enrichment Center on March 29.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Fatma Mili, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs, talks and laughs with faculty and staff members before speaking at the kick-off Laker Talk in the Laker Club on the Allendale Campus.
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Lisa Norris, elementary education placement specialist, presents
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Kyra Harris Bolden with flowers March 16
at the EqualiTEA on behalf of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Theta Chi
Omega Chapter.
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Maura Sedano-Rodriguez reacts to reading an acceptance email into the Study Abroad program. Sedano-Rodriguez, a senior criminal justice major, is excited for the opportunity to travel to Japan this summer.
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Tashuna Hunt was the keynote speaker during the Girls of Color Summit held in the Kirkhof Center March 3. The program was hosted by the Center for Women and Gender Equity.
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Mary Fergus is a senior biochemistry major exploring cross-class
inhibition of key antibiotic resistance targets in the multidrug
resistant pathogen acinetobacter baumannii.
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President Philomena V. Mantella and WGVU radio host Shelley Irwin were honored on March 8 in downtown Grand Rapids as part of an International Women's Day event hosted by nonprofit SowHope.
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Computer science faculty member, Rahat Rafiq, and Aliah Lloyd, a GVSU student, are in the early stages of developing a mobile app that could detect if a person is showing signs of depression based on the tone of their voice.
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Footprints left in a dusting of snow on the morning of March 13 decorate
the sidewalk outside of Lake Superior Hall.
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First-year nursing student Stella Thompson props her feet up while watching Gilmore Girls and responding to emails in Kirkhof Center. Thompson said she loves this sunny space to study. "Like a greenhouse," she said.
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Sophomore Hannah Cooke performs as Cecily Cardew in "The Importance of Being Earnest."
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
The 2023 Sustainability Champion Awards recognized students, faculty,
staff, community members and organizations for their outstanding
contributions to sustainability efforts on and around campus.
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Lead teacher Shelbi O'Brien '22, left, and Mora Jakobcic, center, share a moment during an activity at the Children's Enrichment Center March 29.
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Jacob Yingling, natural resources management major, stands in the outbuilding where GVSU research boats are stored. Yingling is working with mentor Carl Ruetz on a Student Scholars Day project.
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SowHope founder and CEO Mary Dailey Brown, a 2009-2010 fellow in the
Cook Leadership Academy, speaks to the audience during the nonprofit's
International Women's Day event.
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Kaylee Koch, center, hugs Yvonne Blake, left, as they remember Blake's son, Jaden, during a memorial blood drive in his honor. "He was the life of our team," Koch said. "We only had him two years but it felt like we had him forever."
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Vivienne Beintema laughs as she swings during outside during playtime at the Children's Enrichment Center March 29.
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The morning sun illuminates the Cook Carillon Tower and the Mary Idema
Pew Library on March 29.