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Three students walk through accumulated snow on Valley Campus during a winter storm on Jan. 19.

GVSU in Photos, January 2026: Amid the unrelenting cold and snow, fun, beauty, cozy solitude and light

BY University Communications
Image credit - Top image by Emily Riddle

Feb 2, 2026
A college student walks past artwork depicting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
GVSU dedicates a week each year to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and while weather conditions forced cancellation of most events, the spirit of this special recognition remained. Accounting major Anthony Bassett, left, works near artwork depicting Dr. King as foot traffic passes by inside the Kirkhof Center January 22.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A college student wearing glasses and bundled up with a furry hood and colorful scarf braves the cold weather with a smile.
Biomedical science major Maggie Campbell poses for a picture while walking through the snowy landscape near Mackinac Hall on January 22.
Image credit - Cory Morse
With a think scarf and colorful headphones, a college student braves the cold weather.
Snowflakes stick to the eyelashes of first-year student Jessie Miller as she walks to her photography class on the Valley Campus January 26. Miller is a music education major.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
An academic building on a college campus is seen through frosted Plexiglass.
Lake Ontario Hall is seen through frosted Plexiglass on a cold January 26.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student props their legs up as they listen to their online class on a laptop computer.
Iliana Rico, a sophomore psychology major, listens to an online statistics class while sitting in Au Sable Hall during the first day of classes of the winter semester January 12.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A college student in blue works on homework inside a red alcove of a study room.
Elementary education major Hayden Rhodabeck studies in the quiet room LIB 410 at the Mary Idema Pew Library on January 26.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Blue lights are reflected into a rainy-covered sidewalk of a college campus.
Blue lights are reflected onto sidewalks of the Valley Campus January 6.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A student can be seen through a window of an academic building looking at their cellphone, left, and a person mopping the floor is reflected in the wet floor of an academic building.
Alaina White, a junior natural resources and environmental management major, waits in Mackinac Hall for her restoration ecology 8 a.m. class to begin during the first day of classes of the winter semester January 12. Right, GVSU utility specialist Mark Minnema works to keep the floors dry at an entrance of Lake Ontario Hall on January 26.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills, left; Cory Morse, right
A person bundled with colorful yellows and reds, walks past a white sculpture and white piles of snow.
A person bundled up for the wintry weather walks past the Heaven and Earth sculpture in the Great Lakes Plaza January 26.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
Two college students are seen from above working on their laptop computers.
Students leverage cutting-edge tech to drive academic success while studying in the Mary Idema Pew Library January 14.
Image credit - Macayla Cramer
A person sits on a bench among colorful artwork murals on the walls nearby.
Nora Hafez, of W. W. Norton & Company, works inside Lake Superior Hall on January 26. Hafez was on campus to discuss Norton’s textbooks.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Snowfall surrounds a bronze sculpture outside on a college campus.
The statue of Grand Valley’s founder, L. William Seidman, is surrounded by the January 19th snowfall.
Image credit - Emily Riddle
Two squirrels chase each other along the branch of a tree.
Squirrels chase each other in a tree near the Cook-DeWitt Center on the Valley Campus on January 13.
Image credit - Cory Morse
A blue bridge connects over a ravine as seen from a drone.
Little Mac Bridge is pictured from a drone on the Valley Campus on January 8.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Two college students embrace on a university campus.
Melissa Matko, left, and Ava Schoenherr, both first-year students and Phi Mu sorority sisters, hug as they see each other on campus during the first day of classes of the winter semester January 12.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
An academic building is seen through frosted glass.
Lake Huron Hall can be seen through a frost-covered transit shelter on the morning of January 8.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
The warm glow of an academic building is reflected in ice at dawn.
Ice reflects the orange glow of the lights inside Kindschi Hall of Science as students head back to class for the first day of the winter semester January 12.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A carillon tower is reflected into blue water near a frozen section of a pond.
The Cook Carillon Tower is reflected in Zumberge Pond on the morning of January 8.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
People are seen riding the Rapid bus.
Pedestrians ride The Rapid bus system at the Kirkhof Center Bus Station on the Valley Campus on January 14.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Silhouettes of college students enjoying breakfast together near a window.
Two friends, Mirgea Castillo, a first-year engineering major, left, and Josalyn Cramer, a first-year psychology major, talk over breakfast in The Marketplace during the first day of classes of the winter semester January 12. The two both live in Holton-Hooker Living Center and woke up early, walked a mile and were talking over breakfast all before their first classes of the day.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A person in a machine clears snow from university sidewalks.
A worker from the Grounds Department clears sidewalks near Lot M during a snowstorm on the Valley Campus on January 27.
Image credit - Cory Morse
College students help each other as they use rubber tubs as sleds.
Grand Valley students Madeline Burns, left, helps to guide Shania Womack on a snow pile as they sled inside plastic containers at Campus View on January 18.
Image credit - Macayla Cramer
A college student laughs as they tip over in their rubber tub they used as a sled.
Shania Womack, a student and Californian native, laughs while tipping over while sledding down a snow pile in the parking lot of Campus View on January 18.
Image credit - Macayla Cramer
A line of students walk near icicles on a snowy college campus
Students walk near icicles hanging from the Commons on January 22.
Image credit - Cory Morse
With a window that showcases a wooded area, people work in a writing center on a college campus.
Writing consultant Kayla Coats, left, helps international relations major Bree Lane inside the Writing Center at Lake Ontario Hall on January 27. Lane was working on an application for the Summer Scholar Program.
Image credit - Cory Morse
Seen from a balcony, a student sits near a window to work on schoolwork.
Gunner McCreery, Class of 2028, looks through a business communication exercise in the L. William Seidman Center January 26th.
Image credit - Simon Zwart
A detail of frost on a transit shelter.
Frost clings to the Plexiglass of a transit shelter outside Lake Ontario Hall on the Valley Campus January 26.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills
A person walks through a snowy campus of blue and white lights draped in the trees, left, and at right, a college student sits near glass art as they work on their studies.
A person walks to the library on the Valley Campus on the morning of January 6. Right, physical therapy student Jeremiah O’Conner studies near the artwork “Laker Blue and Opaline Persian Chandelier” by Dale Chihuly at Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health (DCIH) on January 28.
Image credit - Kendra Stanley-Mills, left; Cory Morse, right
A men's college basketball team in white and blue jerseys hoist a young smiling child over their head.
Grand Valley men’s basketball players share a moment of celebration, lifting Jacob Smith, son of head coach Cornell Mann, after a win against Northern Michigan on January 29.
Image credit - Emily Riddle

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