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GVL / Courtesy - Mike Clark, MLive Grand Rapids Jesse Bernal speaks to the crowd gathered inside of the Grand River Room in Kirkhof during the sexual assault townhall on Tuesday, April 5, 2017.

Public concern

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 6, 2017
The Lowdown: New Student Org - EVOLVE

The Lowdown: New Student Org – EVOLVE

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 22, 2017
GVL/Kevin Sielaff - Grand Valley's South Apartments as seen from above on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

A GVSU student’s guide to gearing up for winter break on campus

Sanda Vazgec
Dec 12, 2016

GVSU student cuts down on food waste by dumpster diving

Sanda Vazgec
Dec 7, 2016

Donald Trump, Mike Pence rally in Grand Rapids hours before polls open

Jess Hodge and Sanda Vazgec
Dec 7, 2016

More than 2,000 protesters march in Grand Rapids at ‘Not My President’ rally

Sanda Vazgec
Dec 7, 2016

GVSU student to live out of a van all year

Sanda Vazgec
Dec 7, 2016
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Lakers give back for Giving Tuesday

Sanda Vazgec
Dec 5, 2016
GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Matt Smith dives into dumpsters outside of Grand Valley's Kirkhof Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Matt Smith dives into dumpsters outside of Grand Valley's Kirkhof Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Matt Smith dives into dumpsters outside of Grand Valley's Kirkhof Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Matt Smith dives into dumpsters outside of Grand Valley's Kirkhof Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Matt Smith dives into dumpsters outside of Grand Valley's Kirkhof Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

GVSU student cuts down on food waste by dumpster diving

Sanda Vazgec
Nov 28, 2016
GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Matt Smith dives into dumpsters outside of Grand Valley's Kirkhof Center on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

GVL/Kevin Sielaff - Grand Valley's South Apartments as seen from above on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016.

Staying on campus during Thanksgiving break

Sanda Vazgec
Nov 21, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye - Christopher Stark works within the Laker Store on Wendesday, April 15, 2015.

GVPD, Laker Store employees work to stop theft

Sanda Vazgec
Nov 17, 2016

More than 2,000 protesters march in Grand Rapids at ‘Not My President’ rally

Sanda Vazgec
Nov 14, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Anush Yepremyan Anush Yepremyan (middle), Adam Popour (right), and Jake Boudreau (left) meet on Thursday, July 14, 2016 to discuss the diabetes watch project.

Lakers create a blood sugar monitoring device

Sanda Vazgec
Nov 10, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Donald Trump during his rally on Monday Nov. 7, 2016

Donald Trump, Mike Pence rally in Grand Rapids just hours before polls open

Jess Hodge and Sanda Vazgec
Nov 8, 2016

Community members relay concerns, suggestions for Michigan’s education system

Sanda Vazgec
Nov 7, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Child Enrichment Center

Children’s Enrichment Center holds trick-or-treating for little Lakers

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 31, 2016
GVL/Sanda Vazgec - The Mary Idema Pew Library pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016.

Open access week promotes having information available to students

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 27, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Julia Henderson (far left), Taylor Keppel (far right), and other Grand Valley students volunteering at the GVSU Sustainability Farm on Friday Sept. 30, 2016.

More than 200 Lakers volunteer during Make a Difference Day

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 23, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - The Lodge Living space renders

The Lodge will offer over 500 new off-campus units next fall

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 20, 2016
GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Samite Mulondo plays traditional African instruments at Loosemore Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016.

Ugandan musician Samite Mulondo spreads positivity, healing through African music at GVSU

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 13, 2016
GVL/Sanda Vazgec - Samite Mulondo plays traditional African instruments at Loosemore Auditorium Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016.

GVL / Archive - Members of The Beauties and The Beast group perfomed in the live stream lip sync concert on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015 in Allendale, MI. Different sororities and fraternites were paired up to perform together.

Remembering the Laker Magic

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 10, 2016
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GVSU student wins $1,000 for tiny home project

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 6, 2016
GVL/Mackenzie Bush - Grand Valley students make signs and protest downtown at the United Students Against Sweatshops Midwest Conference on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016.

United Students Against Sweatshops holds conference at GVSU

Sanda Vazgec
Oct 3, 2016
GVL / Luke Holmes - Leighton Watson held a lecture, The Power of Student Voices, in the Cook-DeWitt Center Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

Leighton Watson dials in on finding social injustice solutions

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 29, 2016

Rapid bus system makes Route 50 changes

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 26, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Mitch Ranger Jacquelynn Doyon-Martin (center). Grand Valley students and inmates at the Michigan Reformatory meet weekly for a criminal justice class.

Criminal justice class takes students inside state’s oldest prison

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 21, 2016
ACES Lunch and Learn series helps educate faculty, staff

ACES Lunch and Learn series helps educate faculty, staff

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 19, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Phil Pavona

Families against narcotics talks ways to educate about opiate addictions

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 15, 2016
GVL / Kevin Sielaff - Touré, Vice columnist and well known author, visits Grand Valley's Allendale campus on a chilly Jan. 18, 2016. Hundreds of students gathered inside the Fieldhouse to listen to Touré's keynote speech; the students also participated in a silent march before the event.

GVSU offers new Black Lives Matter course

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 12, 2016
GVL / Kevin Sielaff - Theresa Rowland is recognized for her work with Title IX at the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 in the Seidman College of Business on Grand Valley's Pew Campus.

GVSU employees required to take Title IX training

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 8, 2016
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GVSU student to live out of a van all year

Sanda Vazgec
Sep 1, 2016
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GVL / Luke Holmes - International students chat in the lobby of the Murray International House.

More than 400 international students welcomed at GVSU

Sanda Vazgec
Aug 29, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye The class of 2019 participating in Wednesday nights opening transition events. The students were able to become more comfortable with their fellow classmates and their new lives as college students.

Number of students living on campus reaches record high

Sanda Vazgec
Aug 23, 2016

Lubbers Stadium receives facility award

Sanda Vazgec
Jul 19, 2016
GVL / Archive The Laker Store and Kindschi Hall of Science

Building sustainability

Sanda Vazgec
Jul 19, 2016

Getting left behind

Sanda Vazgec
Jun 6, 2016

News Briefs

Sanda Vazgec
Jun 6, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Grand Valley State University continues a number of construction projects around the Allendale campus for the summer of 2016.

Summer construction underway at GVSU

Sanda Vazgec
May 9, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - GVSU.edu ExtravaGRANDza 2015

ExtravaGRANDza celebrates the end of the year

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 21, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Amanda Pitts

GVSU math professor chosen as Professor of the Year

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 18, 2016
GVL / Kasey Garvelink - Students and Faculty attended the Keynote Lecture presented by Dr. David Wineland on Apr. 13, 2016 in Allendale.

Student Scholars Day

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 14, 2016
GVL / Kasey Garvelink - At the beginning of the event, students participated in an ice breaker to help get to know everyone on Apr. 7, 2016 in Allendale.

Week of the Unsung focuses on minority issues, mental health

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 12, 2016
GVL / Kasey Garvelink - Tyler Crowley asks a question during the Homelessness Awareness event on Apr. 2, 2016 in Allendale.

GVSU students highlight West Michigan homelessness

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 7, 2016
GVL / Luke Holmes- Carrie Simmons gives the Service to the Community award to Monica Johnstone and Gary Van Harn. The Pride Awards were held in the Kirkhof Center Wednesday, Mar. 30, 2016, to honor those who have made a positive impact on the LGBT community at GVSU.

Celebrating pride

Sanda Vazgec
Apr 4, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Jericho Brown

Writers Series ends with award-winning poet

Sanda Vazgec
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.

Kaufman, Inclusion and Equity work together to represent interfaith on campus

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 28, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Motor City Muckraker Curt Guyette at his ACLU office in Detroit, MI

Curt Guyette to talk on Flint water crisis

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 24, 2016
GVL / Sara Carte - Entrepreneur Zachary Collins, is in his Junior year at Grand Valley with a new business called ZaCo Technologies on Friday, March 18, 2016.

GVSU student finds early business success

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 21, 2016

Common Ground talk focuses on historical perspectives

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 17, 2016
GVL / Kevin Sielaff - Protesters gather outside of the Fox Theater in Detroit, MI on Friday, March 4, 2016 to voice their opinions about the GOP candidates.

Geography and planning department expands to include sustainability

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 14, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - www.gvsu.edu Professor Mark Luttenton

GV professor acts as witness to water pollution case

Sanda Vazgec
Mar 3, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Melba Vélez Ortiz , Ph.D.

Vision-impaired professor to give HerStory lecture

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 29, 2016
GVL / Emily Frye Grand Valley State Rec center hosts a free Zumba night on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2016.

NIRSA Week emphasizes international activity

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 25, 2016
GVL / Kasey Garvelink - Aaron Lozon studies in Vansteeland’s sitting room on Feb. 19, 2016 in Allendale.

New Gender Justice House to focus on equality

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 22, 2016
GVL / Luke Holmes - Danielle Lake came to speak in the Women's Center inside of Kirkhof Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016.

Symposium to highlight the climate’s impact on women’s health

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 18, 2016
GVL / Sara Carte - In honor of Black History month, Mitzi Loving-Johnson (left) presents Henrietta Lacks during the PBW Valentine’s Day Luncheon in the Kirkhof Center on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 in Allendale.

Positive Black Women celebrate unsung heroes of history

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 15, 2016

RecycleMania competition promotes less waste

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 11, 2016
GVL / Courtesy - Gabriella Patti

GVSU student chosen for international fellowship

Sanda Vazgec
Feb 8, 2016
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Food for thought

Sanda Vazgec
Jan 28, 2016