IRIS IN THE NEWS

One-credit courses promote transferrable skills

February 24, 2023

The popular array of one-credit courses housed in the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies offer students choices that promote development of transferable skills related to professional and academic success.

New GVSU degree program help students step quickly into jobs they wants students step

February 7, 2023

Melanie Shell-Weiss, associate dean for Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, called it a program designed for people who may have met "the glass ceiling" in their current roles. "There is a population of people who were very tempted to join vo

IRIS Assistant Professor Kimberly McKee invited to contribute essay as part of a Digital Harvard Symposium

July 18, 2022

Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department Chair Assistant Professor Kimberly McKee was invited and contributed an essay as part of a Harvard Digital Symposium on Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice.

Grand Valley cultural anthropologist on the James Webb Space Telescope

July 13, 2022

Deana Weibel, professor of anthropology, coined the term "ultraview effect" to explain the "transformative sense of incomprehension and a feeling of shrinking" that comes from seeing the cosmos so extensively.

IRIS faculty article published

March 24, 2022

Christine Yared and Adjunct Professor in the IRIS Dept and Grand Rapids Attorney, was recently published in the February 2022 Michigan Bar Journal.

YELL-Oh Girls! 20 years later...

November 22, 2021

IRIS Associate Professor Kim McKee was recently re-interviewed on being included in the book YELL-Oh Girls! which was first published in 2001.

Visiting Faculty in IRIS

October 25, 2021

The Story of "When Water Moves" ~ Ari is a poet, dancer and choreographer. She also happens to be married to the captain of the Nauti-Cat, and though her roots are in Detroit, she had also enthusiastically fallen in love with these more northern waters.