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All content by Ashlyn Korienek

Taking steps against sexual assault

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 20, 2017

Honoring Andy Lubbers

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 20, 2017
GVL/Hannah Zajac - Students work inside the Mary Idema Pew Library on Wednesday, March 29, 2017.

University Counseling Center to host sleep and stress screenings

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 20, 2017
GVL/Kevin Sielaff - Grand Valley's Interfraternity Council holds a silent march around campus against sexual assault on Tuesday, April 11, 2017.

Taking steps against sexual assault

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 13, 2017
GVL / Kevin Sielaff - Grand Valley hosts SNL comedians Aidy Bryant and Jay Pharoah inside the Fieldhouse Arena Oct. 22.

Lights out

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 6, 2017
GVL / Emily Frye Grand Valley's Officer Min teaches a group of students about being safe with substances on Wednesday Jan. 25, 2016.

National Alcohol Screening Day to combat risky drinking

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 6, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - GVSU.edu 2016 Sustainability Champions Award winners: Sam Bender, Anna Hill, Francis Merring, Suraya Shosten, Brittany Sincox, McKenna Smith, Hannah Swanson, Austin VanDyke, Jess Weal, Alex Wierenga.

Award ceremony to honor ‘Sustainability Champions’

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 30, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - Ayana Weekly

School supply drive to support study abroad in South Africa

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 23, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - GVSU Alternative Breaks

Community Outreach Week promotes ‘Laker Effect’

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 16, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - Amanda Pitts Don Lubbers talks about the "be nice" fund during a news conference on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017.

Honoring Andy Lubbers

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 2, 2017
GVL / Courtesy

GV alumni receive ‘New Business of the Year’ award

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 23, 2017
GVL/Mackenzie Bush - Melanie Rabine-Johnson and Patrick Johnson sell Valentines to raise money for the Women’s Center, Monday Feb. 13, 2017.

‘Cupid’s Contributions’

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 16, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - Anna Campbell "Chosen Family, Chosen Name, Separatist, Safe Space, Ex-Pat, Invert, Homophile, Homestead" display

‘Almost Home’

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 9, 2017
GVL / Emily Frye Austin Vignola of the Sigma Epsilon Fraternity on Tuesday Jan. 31, 2017.

GVSU fraternity to spend Valentine’s Day raising funds for childhood cancer

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 2, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - Drake Jaglowski Seidman IPO e-board, as pictured on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016.

Seidman IPO sets higher goals for 2017 

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 26, 2017
GVL/Mackenzie Bush - Ty Turner performs with his band, The Icarus Account, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 in The Grand River Room.

‘The Icarus Account’ performs coffee shop concert at GV

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 19, 2017
GVL / Courtesy - IFC IFC new board members

IFC welcomes 2017 with new board members, philanthropy

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 13, 2017
GVL/Christina Miller - West Michigan Pre-Vet Symposium 2016; Dr. Greg Fraley in the radiology lab on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, where students learned about radiographs.

GV and Hope College host regional symposium

Ashlyn Korienek
Dec 1, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Kristen Evans RA's gather in the courtyard of the Holton-Hooker Living Center on Monday, August 15, 2016 to take a group photo.

GVSU begins search for 2017-18 resident assistants

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 17, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Zack Kirshner The 11 founding members of AEPi meet at GVSU Friday, Oct. 14, 2016.

Students start Alpha Epsilon Pi colony at GV

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 10, 2016

Take a break for mental health

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 10, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Sean O'Melia

Battle of the Valleys hits final stretch

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 3, 2016
GVL / Luke Holmes - Donald Trump Jr. came to speak in the Grand Riveer Room on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016.

Donald Trump Jr. campaigns at GVSU

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 3, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Haley Gaede Lexi Henckel (left) and Kathleen Szczesny (right) at John Ball Zoo Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016.

GVSU Humane Society celebrates Halloween with service

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 27, 2016
GVL / Ashlyn Korienek David Pettersch

New student club represents Wiccan faith

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 20, 2016
GVL / Ashlyn Korienek Finn Marcks

GVL / Courtesy - lizfunk.com Liz Funk

Keeping calm under stress

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 13, 2016
​GVSU chapters raise more than $200,000 for charity

​GVSU chapters raise more than $200,000 for charity

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 6, 2016
GVL / Courtesy Stephanie Smedley

‘Flint lives matter’

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 29, 2016
GVL/Ashlyn Korienek

GVL/Ashlyn Korienek - Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss speaks at Rosa Parks Circle during the ArtPrize kick-off event Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

[Photo] GVSU welcomes ArtPrize Eight with kickoff event

Sep 21, 2016
GVL/Ashlyn Korienek - Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss speaks at Rosa Parks Circle during the ArtPrize kick-off event Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016.

GVSU welcomes ArtPrize Eight with kickoff event

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 21, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Award winning country music duo Dan & Shay hit the stage at Grand Valley State University on Thursday April 7, 2016.

Spotlight Productions eliminates homecoming concert

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 15, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Malayna Hasmanis Rho Gamma Sorority

Rho Gammas prepare for fall recruitment

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 7, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Marla Wick Jen Hsu

New director announced for LGBT Resource Center

Ashlyn Korienek
Aug 31, 2016
GVL/Kevin Sielaff Campus Life Night takes place Sept. 13 on the grounds of parking lot H at Grand Valley's Allendale campus.

Campus Life Night to host more than 450 organizations

Ashlyn Korienek
Aug 23, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Sway.com

Shine On for Shelby hosts fundraiser to honor murdered GVSU alumna

Ashlyn Korienek
Jul 8, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Amanda Pitts New Music Ensemble

GVSU’s New Music Ensemble to perform at National Parks

Ashlyn Korienek
Jun 6, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Rebecca Ramos GVSU Surplus Store

GVSU Surplus Store to hold open hours

Ashlyn Korienek
Jun 6, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Lorie Tuma 2016 Cannes Film Festival participants

GV students to work international film festival in France

Ashlyn Korienek
May 9, 2016
GVL / Coutesy - Alok Daid-menon Alok Daid-menon (right), Janani Balasubramanian (left); DarkMatter Poetry

DarkMatter poetry performance challenges gender binary

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 21, 2016
GVL / Sara Carte - Gamma Phi Beta sets up a booth for their Gamma Phive K run that is being held on April 17, in the Kirkhof center on Monday, Apr. 11, 2016.

‘Girls on the Run’

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 14, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye American Country Music singer Joel Crouse hits the stage at Grand Valley State University on Thursday April 7, 2016.

Dan Shay perform at 2016 spring concert

Ashlyn Korienek
Apr 11, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Madison Rhoades

‘Speak Like a Girl’

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 31, 2016
GVL / Sara Carte - The Kaufman Interfaith Institute Program Manager, Katie Gordon, speaks with students and staff at the Religius & Spiritual Identity Listening Sessions in the DeVos Campus on Wednesday, Mar. 23, 2016.

Students celebrate culture at GV

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 24, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Gregory Mason LGBT College

GVSU alumnus launches LGBT diversity documentary

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 17, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Michael Surinck, ATO President

GVSU fraternity to walk 160 miles to fight MS

Ashlyn Korienek
Mar 3, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Joshua Woolard IFC Bid Night 2016

Winter recruitment holds record number of bids

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 25, 2016
GVL / Kasey Garvelink - Prior to beginning, students that attended the In the Margins event had time to talk with one another before the meeting started on Feb. 16, 2016 in Allendale.

Pride in poetry

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 18, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Samuel Nathan Alpha Sigma Phi bike trip

GVSU fraternity pledges $50k for companion dogs

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 11, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Brandon Witsaman Treat Yourself club

Treat yourself to a new club at GV

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 4, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Brody Cragg (left), Sean Diaz (left center), Annika Gray (right center), and Levi Ryfiak (right)

Program advocates support for LGBT students at GV

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 4, 2016

Art Briefs

Ashlyn Korienek
Feb 3, 2016
GVL/ Archive Performance by the Toyoda Center of Aikido, MMA and Kendo in 2013

New Year event celebrates traditional culture of Asia

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 28, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - De'Chelle Richards

Student organizations to host water drive for Flint

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 28, 2016

Art Briefs

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 27, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Marcella Migneco; flippenmusic.com Paradise Fears

Paradise Fears to perform at GVSU

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 21, 2016
Winter recruitment provides relaxed atmosphere going Greek

Winter recruitment provides relaxed atmosphere going Greek

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 14, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Nicole Wilson

GVSU program aids students to become future leaders

Ashlyn Korienek
Jan 14, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye

GVSU welcomes nearly 1,000 new alumni

Ashlyn Korienek
Dec 13, 2015
GVL / Courtesy - WGVU

WGVU radio program explores inclusion, equity issues

Ashlyn Korienek
Dec 10, 2015
GVL/Archive GVSU students embrace each other on stage after recieving their diplomas at the 2015 commencement ceremony April 25.

Winter semester enrollment decreases

Ashlyn Korienek
Dec 6, 2015
GVL/Archive GVSU graduate waves at her friends and family at the 2015 Commencement April 25.

Exit interviews offer financial advice to graduates

Ashlyn Korienek
Dec 2, 2015
GVL / Courtesy - Amanda Pitts The Ronald McDonald House charity fund donates $20,000 to literacy project

Literacy project promotes reading with new initiative

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 29, 2015
GVL / Kevin Sielaff - Dean of students Bart Merkle speaks at student senate's Last Lecture Nov. 19 at Grand Valley's Mary Idema Pew Library.

‘We are part of something bigger’

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 23, 2015
GVL / Sara Carte Grand Valley student, Alison Farnsworth, reaches for her homework while studying in the Mary Idema Pew Library on Allendale’s campus on Nov. 17.

The cost of multitasking

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 19, 2015
Darien Kent, junior, talks with Tyler Konell, freshman, in the LGBT Resource Center on Nov. 13 in Allendale, MI.

Heading back to a (not so happy) home

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 16, 2015
GVL / Courtesy - GVSU Scribe Academy GVSU Scribe Academy’s first Class of June, 2015

New program offers emergency care clinical experience

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 12, 2015
GVL / Courtesy - Nicole Kleiman-Moran Students in Solidarity campaign

GV students protest Detroit charter school instability

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 9, 2015
GVL/Luke Holmes

Blackboard misuse leads to policy change

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 5, 2015

Striving for diversity

Ashlyn Korienek
Nov 2, 2015
GVL/Luke Holmes

Women’s Center hosts domestic violence program

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 29, 2015
GVL / Kevin Sielaff - The Saturday night patrol unit poses for a photo outside of the Grand Valley police station on Oct. 25.

Behind the sirens

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 26, 2015
GVL / Courtesy - nydailynews.com Shelby Fazio

Shine On for Shelby initiative to honor murdered GVSU Alumna

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 19, 2015
GVL / Sara Carte Grand Valley students throw away trash and food at Crave in Kirkhof on Oct. 2.

Preventing wasted food on campus

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 15, 2015
GVL / Emily Frye

Laker Experience Day welcomes 800 potential Lakers

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 12, 2015
GVL / Emily Frye Brody Cragg (far left), Sean Diaz (left), Annika Gray (center), Levi Ryfiak (right), and Emily Glownia (far right)

Inclusion and Equity absorbs OMA, Women’s Center, LGBT Center

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 8, 2015
GVL / Sara Carte Grand Valley students study in the LGBT Resource Center on Sept. 29.

Going beyond the gender binary

Ashlyn Korienek
Oct 1, 2015
GVL / Audra Gamble 17th annual GVSU Three Fires Pow Wow "Celebrating All Walks of Life"

GVSU to honor Native American heritage

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 28, 2015
GVL/Kevin Sielaff Van operater Jenna Bud and student Sara Krahel use the van's lift on Sept. 23.

Disability Support Resources expand services

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 24, 2015

GVSU chosen for low-income student scholarship program

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 21, 2015
GVL / Sara Carte Grand Valley student, Kate Berg, studies in the Veteran Lounge in the Kirkhof building on Sept. 15.

Supporting student veterans

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 17, 2015

Margo Dill retires as Program Coordinator for RMSC

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 14, 2015
GVL / Emily Frye Students attending the Nonprofit Internship Fair in Henry Hall on Wednesday September 9th, 2015.

Nonprofit volunteer and Internship Fair

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 10, 2015
GVL/Kevin Sielaff GVSU Surplus Store

GVSU Surplus Store

Ashlyn Korienek
Sep 3, 2015
GVL / Kevin Sielaff Dean Kamen, renowned inventor and entrepreneur, is honored with a degree during convocation. Grand Valley kicks off the academic year with their annual convocation ceremonies, held August 29th, 2015 inside the Fieldhouse Arena.

Convocation ceremony kicks off new academic year

Ashlyn Korienek
Aug 31, 2015
GVL / Courtesy - Elizabeth Lienau

GVSU partners with Godwin Heights in college advising program

Ashlyn Korienek
Aug 24, 2015
GVL/Audra Gamble Eleven different emergency response teams practice a radiology drill Tuesday, April 18, 2015 at Grand Valley State University's Allendale Campus. The drills tooks place within North B living center near the entrance to campus.

GVSU Police Academy first in Michigan to offer program to veterans

Ashlyn Korienek
Jul 13, 2015
GVL/Lauren Loria Glass panels waiting to be installed at the Mary Idema Pew Library.

Getting even greener

Ashlyn Korienek
Jun 1, 2015
GVSU ranks top 25 in national recycling contest

GVSU ranks top 25 in national recycling contest

Ashlyn Korienek
May 3, 2015