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Music festival to spotlight 20th/21st-century piano compositions

Sixty grade school musicians from across Michigan, as well as Grand Valley faculty and students, will celebrate 20th- and 21st-Century piano music with a day of recitals during the 20th/21st-Century Piano Music Festival. The festival will include multiple 50-minute recitals on October 28 featuring solos performed by students ranging in grade level from first grade through high school. Grand Valley's award-winning New Music Ensemble will also perform during the festival.

Oct 26, 2017


Health Forum focus: human genetics

The Health Forum of West Michigan November discussion will center on human genetics, featuring panelists with backgrounds in research, medicine and government policy.

Oct 25, 2017


Creating inclusive communities is focus of annual seminar

An activist who is a writer and lawyer will lead a one-day seminar November 3 that focuses on creating inclusive classrooms, communities and campus environments.

Oct 24, 2017


Symposium will highlight area impact of immigrants

The fourth annual Padnos/Sarosik Civil Discourse Symposium will focus on immigrants and refugees, featuring panelists who are deeply engaged with those populations.

Oct 24, 2017


CLAS alumni to visit campus for presentations and events

Alumni from 13 departments within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will visit the Allendale Campus to share their post-graduation Laker Effects during multiple events and presentations October 26-27.

Oct 23, 2017


Event features panel of women in politics

Women who hold leadership roles will discuss challenges, opportunities and the importance of women in politics during a panel discussion October 25. "Democracy 101: Women in Politics" will take place from 6-7:30 p.m. in room 215 of the Eberhard Center.

Oct 23, 2017


Students showcase research on global health issues

Carbon dioxide exposure in the craft brewing process, breast cancer treatment patterns in Tanzania, and the use of hippotherapy across six continents are just a few of the topics that were presented at the 2017 Global Health Showcase.

Oct 23, 2017


Engineering, physical therapy students build un-boo-lievable costumes for children

A group of engineering students from Grand Valley is working with children at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital to make the young patients' Halloween costume ideas come to life.

Oct 20, 2017


Volleyball broadcast live on ESPN

The Laker volleyball team's matches on Friday, October 20 and Saturday, October 21 will be broadcast live on ESPN.

Oct 20, 2017


Alumnus president of Palau will visit campus

As president of the Pacific island nation of Palau, Tommy Remengesau is leading a government that is in the center of U.S.-China relations, climate change and outside threats to an ocean economy.

Oct 20, 2017