Articles by Dottie Barnes
Event features 'wonder women' of family-owned businesses
Three women from West Michigan will share their experiences as leaders of their family businesses during a panel discussion March 26, sponsored by the Family Owned Business Institute in the Seidman College of Business.
Mar 25, 2019
Faculty member's poem selected for national website
Award-winning author Amorak Huey, associate professor of writing, was selected for Poem of the Day by the Academy of American Poets.
Mar 25, 2019
Meeting scheduled to discuss Viant Medical and air quality tests
Grand Valley will hold a meeting for faculty, staff and students to share any information regarding Viant Medical, Inc. and the indoor air quality tests conducted in select buildings on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
Mar 25, 2019
Vigil held to remember victims of New Zealand shootings
About 100 students, faculty and community members gathered at the Cook Carillon Tower March 21 to honor the victims of the terrorist attack at two New Zealand mosques.
Mar 21, 2019
Speaker for Big Data event to focus on artificial unintelligence
Meredith Broussard, keynote speaker for The Big Data Initiative at Grand Valley, will talk about how computers misunderstand the world.
Mar 21, 2019
Spectrum Health patient gets surprise send-off
A Spectrum Health patient who watched the Health Campus expansion from his hospital window got a surprise send-off.
Mar 19, 2019
GVSU to celebrate life of César Chávez
Marc Grossman, former press secretary for César E. Chávez, is the keynote speaker for a Grand Valley event celebrating the life of Chávez, a labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.
Mar 18, 2019
GVSU Science Olympiad celebrating 35 years
More than 1,000 local middle and high school students will become disease detectives and meteorologists, analyze potions and poisons, and dissect the concepts of thermodynamics, during the 35th annual Region 12 Michigan Science Olympiad tournament March 23.
Mar 13, 2019
GVSU economist: Slow growth resumes, optimism improves
While 2019 got off to a slow start in January, February's report for the West Michigan economy shows a return to a pattern of slow growth that has been reported for nearly 10 years, according to Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business.
Mar 8, 2019
VAGTC auto symposium covers tariffs, technology
Business owners and executives from across West Michigan learned about the effects of tariffs on the auto industry, the global automotive outlook, and how to attract talent during the 20th West Michigan Automotive Suppliers Symposium.
Mar 8, 2019