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GVSU in Photos, March 2024: Weather whiplash, reasons to celebrate and a new space for Laker pride

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

Apr 1, 2024
Snow clings to yellow blossoms.
A tree in blossom is heavy with new snow outside of Zumberge Hall March 22.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two friends sit among yellow blossoms at an outdoor table on a college campus.
Friends Diamond Payne, left, and Holly Johnson sit together between Kirkhof Center and the Mary Idema Pew Library March 13. Payne is a sophomore psychology major and Johnson is involved with His House Christian Fellowship at GVSU.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A student is silhouetted against a red backdrop while holding a colorful cultural flag.
Union High School student Tyies Kemp poses for a photo with a cultural fan during the Global Language and Culture Festival March 20. The Modern Languages and Literatures Department invited about 300 high school world language students to the Allendale Campus recently to explore languages and cultures and find out what Grand Valley has to offer.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A graduate student throws their arms up in excitement holding a graduation cap and wearing a black graduation gown.
Jowei Yek celebrates outside of the Seidman Center on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus March 26. Yek, a dual MBA and PMASI graduate student, will walk in the April Commencement.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Dancers from the student group Monarcas hold out their colorful regalia as they pose for a photo.
Dancers from the student group Monarcas pose for a photo during Grand Valley's César Chávez celebration on March 22.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
A college student crouches down to embrace a dog at a shelter.
Rather than spending their spring break relaxing, a group of Grand Valley students spent the first week of March in Batavia, Ohio, gaining career experience and caring for neglected animals at The League for Animal Welfare as part of Alternative Breaks.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
A college student smiles as seen through a round blue and green shape with computer coding double exposed.
Aliah Lloyd, a senior studying computer science and minoring in Chinese language, is most excited about continuing her research with professor Rahat Rafiq in developing an app that will help students monitor their mental health and guide them to appropriate resources.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two college student embrace and toss their arms in the air as they wear blue caps and gowns.
Friends and upcoming graduates, Jose Medina, left, and Mary Jo Buechler celebrate together on the Blue Bridge in downtown Grand Rapids March 26.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Large snowflakes fall during a ribbon cutting ceremony outside a glass storefront.
Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss, center left, and President Philomena V. Mantella, center right, join other university and community leaders to cut the ceremonial ribbon March 22 at the grand opening of the Laker Store on Monroe Center.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A fitness instructor leads a class in exercise in a colorful room of blue and purple lights.
Valarie James, '10, owner of VSJ Fitness leads a class March 13. The West Michigan Small Business Development Center helped James with her marketing plan to develop her fitness brand.
Image credit - Amanda Pitts
A purple flower pokes up from the snow.
A March snowfall blanketed campus covering spring flowers.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A student wearing a purple shirt smiles among a room full of event participants.
Almost 270 middle and high school students from 22 schools across Michigan attended the Sixth Annual Girls of Color Summit on March 1.
Image credit - Lauren Seymour
At left, two high school students wearing waders work on research in a stream. Right, a college professor wears a green wool hat covered with pins.
Left, Ravenna High School students Constantin Schnabel, left, and Wesley VerMeer, right, work on adding equipment to the Rio Grande Branch of Crockery Creek as part of a sucker migration study. Right, Mitchell Place, senior affiliate professor of German, dons a Bavarian-style hiking hat during the Global Language and Culture Festival March 20. The tradition is to collect pins of all the places that you've hiked.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student smiles at the camera as snow falls on her blue and black hood and coat while walking on a college campus.
First-year student Ciara Gau walks to class on a snowy March 22. Gau, a nursing major from Kansas, said, "We don't get a lot of snow so I kind of like it."
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student is silhouetted against a pond while wearing headphones.
Ivy George sits along Zumberge Pond to enjoy her lunch on March 13. George, a first-year business student, said the best part of this semester was her sense of feeling more accomplished.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Students study and relax along a pond on a college campus.
The Kirkhof Center is reflected in Zumberge Pond as a warm March 13 brought students outdoors to enjoy the spring-like weather.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A carillon tower is seen through the shapes of a metal sculpture during sunrise.
The Beckering Family Carillon Tower is seen through a metal art sculpture on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus during sunrise March 21.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills

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