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All content by Susie Skowronek
Susie Skowronek

This graduate looks forward to returning to parents’ house

Susie Skowronek
Apr 17, 2011
Participants in Relay for Life begin to march in Friday's event.

Survivors celebrate another happy birthday

Susie Skowronek
Apr 11, 2011
A Grand Valley football player has fun with a child during Friday's Relay for Life event.

Relay for Life recognizes superhero cancer survivors

Susie Skowronek
Apr 11, 2011
Courtesy Photo / gomemphis.com Rebecca Skloot, author of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Community Read culminates in Skloot’s Conversation

Susie Skowronek
Apr 3, 2011
GVL Archiev / Kyle A. Hudecz Students and faculty march in silence during a past Cesar Chavez celebration on the GVSU campus

Celebration to remind GV ‘sí se puede!’

Susie Skowronek
Mar 27, 2011
High tea celebrates 50 years of women's history

High tea celebrates 50 years of women’s history

Susie Skowronek
Mar 24, 2011
Courtesy Photo / Dan Lines Performance of the Stand Up 8, which features GV Alumnus Christianne Sainz. The Stand Up 8 will be performing in the Fieldhouse on Thursday, March 24th.

Step Under the Tent to the Circus

Susie Skowronek
Mar 20, 2011
Circus to feature GV alumna on trampoline

Circus to feature GV alumna on trampoline

Susie Skowronek
Mar 20, 2011
Courtesy Photo / gvsu.edu Respect the Distance poster

Curtain will go up on respect this week

Susie Skowronek
Mar 13, 2011
Courtesy Photo / Sarah Thompson At His House-favorite Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization last year, Thompson and others found a skeleton among the roots of banana trees

Spring Break trip welcomes back graduates

Susie Skowronek
Mar 13, 2011
Courtesy Photo / spectrum-health.com Harold Conrad, MD, pediatric gastroenterologist at Spectrum Health

Info session to tackle Crohn’s and Colitis

Susie Skowronek
Feb 28, 2011
GVSU senior Ellen Rhein and alumni Sarah Bontinen practice their introductions at the Careerfest Prep Session at the Kirkhof Center yesterday.

Career experts prepare students for Winter Careerfest

Susie Skowronek
Feb 21, 2011

Campus to relax with culture, comedy, variety, basketball

Susie Skowronek
Feb 17, 2011
Valentine's Day flowers

Happy Valentine’s Day

Susie Skowronek
Feb 14, 2011
GVL Archive / Brian B. Sevald Random acts of kindness is something everyone can do.

Student business struggles for credibility

Susie Skowronek
Feb 7, 2011
Courtesy Photo / Stephanie Ly A performance at a past Asian New Year, hosted by the Asian Student Union

Lion dances, Mulan to kick off Year of the Rabbit

Susie Skowronek
Jan 31, 2011

Students help to make magic

Susie Skowronek
Jan 27, 2011
Courtesy Photo / whatmakesyoutic.com Marc Elliot

Speaker with Tourette schools GV on tolerance

Susie Skowronek
Jan 24, 2011
Courtesy Photo / myadrenalfatigue.com Mixed energy drinks

Expo to offer equipment-free, anywhere workouts

Susie Skowronek
Jan 24, 2011
Senior Amanda Alkema and graduate student Jen Koth take apart a computer while they volunteer at Comprenew

Students save environment ‘one computer at a time’

Susie Skowronek
Jan 17, 2011
Courtesy Photo / Google Images

What we read

Susie Skowronek
Jan 9, 2011
Courtesy Photo / USAID/OFDA Sudan Oil and Gas Concessions Map

Ethics vs. Economics

Susie Skowronek
Jan 9, 2011
Courtesy Photo / Rich Warner Students take out end of the year stresses on a car

Kappa Sigma smashes stress

Susie Skowronek
Dec 13, 2010
The Phi Mu sorority held a dance marathon to benefit the Children's Miracle Network

Sorority sponsors 12-hour dance marathon for afflicted children

Susie Skowronek
Dec 6, 2010
The Honors Class, who orchestrated the Freedom Formal

Freedom Formal raises $1,200 for Muskegon shelter

Susie Skowronek
Dec 6, 2010
GVL / Eric Coulter Jennifer Xiong and Bee Yang discuss the culture of the Hmong people.

WTHmong provides crash course in culture

Susie Skowronek
Nov 22, 2010
Courtesy Photo / gvsu.edu Chaunte Rodgers

Chats to spark talk about stereotypes

Susie Skowronek
Nov 22, 2010
Soccer tournament to raise money for local refugees

Soccer tournament to raise money for local refugees

Susie Skowronek
Nov 15, 2010
Courtesy Photo / smithsonianmag.com The community reading project

Community reading project discusses science ethics through book

Susie Skowronek
Nov 8, 2010
Courtesy Photo / scienceblogs.com Participants in Fast-a-Thon will fast from sunrise to sundown

Students pledge to ‘get hungry for change’

Susie Skowronek
Nov 8, 2010
Students bare soles for TOMS mission

Students bare soles for TOMS mission

Susie Skowronek
Nov 8, 2010
Courtesy Photo / facebook.com A group of hikers on the Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area

Students to chop ‘pretty looking tree’ ravaging Saugatuck dunes

Susie Skowronek
Oct 31, 2010
Courtesy Photo / Cory Jackson Cory Jackson handles a fish habitat on the trails spring break trip

Alternative Breaks leaders recommend trip to all students

Susie Skowronek
Oct 24, 2010
GVL Archive / Aaron Rademacher Stairs are a common obstacle for students and staff with physical handicaps to navigate on the GVSU campus.

Celebrating individuals with disabilities

Susie Skowronek
Oct 24, 2010
Delta Zeta Sorority sitting by the clock tower for Disability Awareness Week

Keys to promote freedom from modern slavery

Susie Skowronek
Oct 22, 2010
Cuban-American fiction writer, Achy Obejas speaks during the Professionals of Color event

Prize-winning writer lectures on how place defines person

Susie Skowronek
Oct 17, 2010
A merchant sells his goods during the Renaissance Festival

GVSU hosts lords, ladies, pirates

Susie Skowronek
Oct 10, 2010
Courtesy Photo / nantralodge.bc.ca A dementia patient uses art therapy to help cope. Art therapy allows for non verbal expression of emotions

Soothing sculptures

Susie Skowronek
Oct 3, 2010
GVL / Matt Raupp Fall weather means apple picking at orchards around Grand Valley

Lanthorn guide to Michigan apples

Susie Skowronek
Sep 27, 2010
Those attending FocuZ 2010 each recieved a blue heart. According to the Blue Heart Campaign Web site: "The Blue Heart represents the sadness of those who are trafficked while reminding us of the cold-heartedness of those who buy and sell fellow human beings. The use of the blue U.N. color also demonstrates the commitment of the United Nations to combating this crime agaisnt human dignity.

Victims paint picture of human trafficking in U.S.

Susie Skowronek
Sep 16, 2010

Ramadan, Sept. 11, Cordoba House to collide

Susie Skowronek
Sep 9, 2010

GVSU education students have chance to receive $30,000 in three years

Susie Skowronek
Aug 30, 2010
Student Shannon Gibson struugles with the weight her teachers have put in her arms.

UBS holds off on textbook rental

Susie Skowronek
Aug 30, 2010
Dr. Jeff Chamberlain, director of the Frederik Meijer Honors College, gets pied in the face by a student in the ampitheater behind the Niemeyer Learning and Living Center on Wednesday.

Lakerfest celebrates

Susie Skowronek
Apr 22, 2010
Relay for Life 2010, organized by Colleges Against Cancer, had a theme of “sailing towards a cure.”

Relay tells stories of support, hope

Susie Skowronek
Apr 12, 2010
Northwestern scholar untangles Nazi politics, German corporations

Northwestern scholar untangles Nazi politics, German corporations

Susie Skowronek
Apr 12, 2010
Courtesy Photo / Ken VanderWal A child receives medical treatment at Ken VanderWal’s Ugandan orphanage.

Character Close-Up: Ken VanderWal

Susie Skowronek
Apr 8, 2010