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Children looking at Christmas cards in New York ,1910 (Courtesy / New York Times)

Consumerism vs. Religion: Christmas in the United States

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Nov 29, 2021
Presenter and GVSU alumni Allison Stephens Shook with a HFL program resident on a bus during a learning trip to Kigali. (Courtesy / Hope for Life)

GV alum gives philanthropy presentation

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Nov 22, 2021
Minnebo presents her paleoclimate research at GSA Connects 2021 (Courtesy / Lillian Minnebo)

GV STEM students present research across the country

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Nov 15, 2021
Students attend the "Graveyard Shift" gallery show. (GVL Xavier Golden)

SIGIL welcomes student creatives

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Nov 8, 2021
Courtesy / Office of Undergraduate Research

Why undergrads should pursue research

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Nov 1, 2021
Dr. Alice Chapman, the Chair of the student panel, and the three undergraduate presenters, Ysabela Golden, Chrystina Ochsankehl, and Isaac Hoekstra (Courtesy / History Department)

Great Lakes History Conference explores human sociability

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Oct 25, 2021
Courtesy / Ashten Duncan

Student Researchers tackle the pandemic

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Oct 18, 2021
Courtesy / Seidman College of Business

Economics Club talks failure, disabilities, and reaching out for help

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Oct 11, 2021
GVL / Bela Golden

Hauenstein Center to explore divide on Big Tech

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Oct 4, 2021
(Courtesy / GVSU Promotions Office)

The bias behind student evaluations

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Sep 27, 2021
“The Federal Pillars” drawing, first published in the Massachusetts Centinel, January 16, 1788. (Courtesy / Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

GV celebrates Constitution Day

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Sep 20, 2021
(Courtesy / Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusivity & Diverse STEM Faculty)

GV “iChange” pursues diversity in STEM

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Sep 13, 2021
Darren Wahlof, chair of Grand Valley's political science department, left. led the panel discussion between Ethan Zuckerman, center, and Linda Chavez, right. (Courtesy / Hauenstein Center)

Hauenstein discusses: why don’t Americans trust their institutions?

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Sep 7, 2021
One of Fustero-Lopez’s designs, incorporating themes learned from their research into an easily-shareable inforgraphic. (Courtesy Vaccinate West Michigan)

GV researchers tackle vaccine hesitancy

Ysabela Golden, Staff Writer
Aug 30, 2021
Every Tuesday and Thursday, OWS students do team-building activities on campus; every Saturday, they go to Grand Rapids for co-curricular workshops at Craig's Cruisers or Battle GR. (Photographer: Valerie Hendrickson)

Oliver Wilson Scholars adapt to campus early

Ysabela Golden, Staff Reporter
Aug 2, 2021
Trump's 2017 decision to end the DACA program led to mass protests across the country, including many universities. (Courtesy Kathryn S. Kuhar via The Harvard Crimson)

OMA hosts Michigan Network for Undocumented Immigrant Success

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Apr 12, 2021
The labor leader drew influence from the nonviolent tactics of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, organizing picket strikes and boycotts. (Courtesy Associated Press)

OMA celebrates César Chávez, undocumented immigrants

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Apr 5, 2021
Sookkyung Cho plays Schubert's Sonata in A minor, D. 537, the first movement. (Courtesy Sookkyung Cho)

CLAS faculty present research on art, classical music, political origins of rap

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Mar 22, 2021
Kelsey Perdue is the Michigan project director of Kids Count, where she works to heal the larger community by advocating for better education policies (GVL Ysabela Golden)

Grand Rapids activist speaks on leadership

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Mar 15, 2021

CAB reflects on first Winterfest

Katherine Vasile and Ysabela Golden
Feb 22, 2021
Kayla Sosa (left) and Jamie Wilson (right) enjoying the titular beverage of the Tea Time discussion show. (GVL Ysabela Golden)

CSLC discusses Biden’s executive orders

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Feb 8, 2021
Many CLA fellow candidates find jobs and internships through their mentors. (Courtesy/ Cook Leadership Academy)

Cook Leadership Academy looks for new candidates

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Feb 1, 2021
Nixon leaving the White House for the last time on Aug. 9, 1974. (Photo courtesy Chick Harrity/Associated Press)

Hauenstein Center discusses the Nixon Post-Presidency

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jan 19, 2021

Semester-in-Review: Laker Life

Katherine Arnold, Autumn Pitchure, and Ysabela Golden
Dec 14, 2020
The Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake was the main feature of the seminar "Reptile conservation in the Midwest using landscape ecology and genetics." (Courtesy/Eric McCluskey)

Species Stronghold: Reptile Conservation in Michigan

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Nov 16, 2020
Tim Curry stared in the 1975 film, which has since become an enduring cult classic. (Courtesy / 20th Century Fox)

CAB hosts the Rocky Horror Picture Show

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Nov 2, 2020
Dr. Eva Feldman gave her presentation over Zoom. (GVL / Ysabela Golden)

Hauenstein hosts talk from Michigan Neurology leader

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Oct 12, 2020
Representatives of the Community Service Learning Center discuss the importance of voting. (GVL / Ysabela Golden)

Student athletes encourage peers to vote

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Oct 5, 2020
Jillian Ashton, a Summer Scholar who researched water quality on the Grand River with her Faculty Mentor Peter Wampler. (Courtesy/Office of Undergraduate Research)

Undergraduate researchers present at Summer Scholars Showcase

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 21, 2020
Courtesy / Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies

Hauenstein Center hosting Wheelhouse Talk on COVID leadership

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 9, 2020
Courtesy/ Alexander Calder Art Center

Living on a closed campus: student housing during COVID-19

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Aug 31, 2020

A Look at Lifestyle 8/10/20

Mary Racette and Ysabela Golden
Aug 10, 2020

Art faculty adapts to remote instruction

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Aug 10, 2020

Laker Life Briefs

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Mar 16, 2020
GVL / Ysabela Golden

CLAS hosts semester’s second Research Colloquium

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Mar 9, 2020
Courtesy / John Golden

Teachers attend GV’s Math in Action

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Feb 24, 2020
GVL / Ysabela Golden

Black History Month speaker presents on AIDS awareness

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Feb 10, 2020

Ethical journalism and the Morris Berger story

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Feb 10, 2020
Temple Emanuel's garden. Courtesy / Cathrin Finney

Campus Interfaith plans visit to Temple Emanuel

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Feb 3, 2020
Design Thinking Director Dave Coffey watches table group discussions. GVL / Ysabela Golden

Students design university’s future at GVNext Workshop

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jan 27, 2020

The Sovereign Grant, “Megxit” and the British Monarchy

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jan 27, 2020
An information literacy visualization from students Devin Gordon and Max Geldhof

CLAS faculty host first Research Colloquium of 2020

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jan 20, 2020

How students evaluate faculty performance

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jan 13, 2020
Award recipient Heather Harrington-Minnebo with Graduate Dean Jeffrey Potteiger. Courtesy / Heather Harrington-Minnebo

Graduate art teacher awarded for academic excellence

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jan 6, 2020
Lex Tsakiris (above) and Alexa Andary (below). Courtesy / Kenzie Cain.

Cleats, community and competition: GVSU’s Women’s Rugby Club

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Dec 2, 2019
GVL / Sheila Babbitt

Antisemitism on the college campus

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Nov 25, 2019

Learn about Vietnamese culture with VCA

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Nov 18, 2019
The anti-corruption protests that featured heavily in the Teach-In session "¡Ave Maria! Puerto Rico as a Case Study in Disaster Capitalism." Courtesy / Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Puerto Rico as a Case Study: Student/faculty collaboration for GV’s seventh annual Teach-In

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Nov 11, 2019
Photo Courtesy/Professor Cáel M. Keegan

Teacher Feature: Award-winning professor Cáel Keegan

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Nov 4, 2019

Original Joker victim of murder in new film, replaced with pitiful clown

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Oct 28, 2019
Serena Fuegatati (Huy Do) with Chardonnay White (Courtney Dam) after the show.

Drag 101

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Oct 28, 2019
Alissa Lane Representatives from GVSU's partner university in Ghana, University of Cape Coast, talk to students at the Study Abroad Fair (2015) COURTESY \ GVSU

Tour the world at the Study Abroad Fair

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Oct 14, 2019
COURTESY \ Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center

“Queer the Air” with the LGBT Resource Center

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Oct 7, 2019
GVL \ Marc Green

GV conducting sixth Climate Survey

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 30, 2019
COURTESY / Breann Barge

USPOC welcomes creatives of color

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 23, 2019
Grand Valley student works with cheetahs

Grand Valley student works with cheetahs

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 16, 2019
COURTESY / Padnos International Center

Padnos International Center reached out with ice cream

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 9, 2019
"The Peanut Butter Falcon" breaks the mold

“The Peanut Butter Falcon” breaks the mold

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 9, 2019
Lifelong Learning for Grand Valley Faculty

Lifelong Learning for Grand Valley Faculty

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Sep 3, 2019
CAB prepared activites galore for the Laker Kickoff Party. GVL | KATHERINE VASILE

Campus Activities Board kicks off new semester

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Aug 26, 2019
Architectural design: Goldsmith Company, Photography: Ruben Dario Kleimeer

Students tour floating dairy farm in Netherlands

Ysabela Golden
Aug 19, 2019
Photo courtesy of David Clark

Grand Valley hosts MathPath middle schoolers

Ysabela Golden
Aug 19, 2019
Professors Melba and Chad Vélez Ortiz. Photo courtesy Melba Vélez Ortiz.

Teacher Feature: Professor Vélez Ortiz

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jul 15, 2019
Keri Becker, Grand Valley’s Athletic Director since 2011. Photo courtesy of Keri Becker.

Athletic Director Keri Becker joins governor’s task force

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jul 15, 2019
courtesy / Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Students Work Cannes Film Festival

Ysabela Golden
Jun 9, 2019
courtesy / John Golden

Teaching in Tanzania

Ysabela Golden, Laker Life Editor
Jun 9, 2019
courtesy / Ed Aboufadel via Twitter

History conference puts spotlight on the Midwest

Ysabela Golden
May 13, 2019

Grand Rapids group holding town hall on Green New Deal

Ysabela Golden
May 13, 2019
Free speech and censorship on college campuses

Free speech and censorship on college campuses

Ysabela Golden
Apr 15, 2019
Meet the Real "Einstein Bros"

Meet the Real “Einstein Bros”

Ysabela Golden
Apr 1, 2019

Admissions Scam: Affirmative Action for the rich?

Ysabela Golden
Mar 18, 2019

The 2020 Democratic ballot is getting crowded, fast

Ysabela Golden
Feb 25, 2019

LBGT representation: is it changing?

Ysabela Golden
Feb 4, 2019

MLK Day: Injustice anywhere

Ysabela Golden
Jan 21, 2019

The longest shutdown in United States history

Ysabela Golden
Jan 14, 2019

A long wall and a longer shutdown

Ysabela Golden
Jan 7, 2019

2018: The Year of Foodborne Illness

Ysabela Golden
Dec 3, 2018

Bad news and good ratings

Ysabela Golden
Nov 19, 2018

The issues on the table for the Nov. 6 election

Ysabela Golden
Oct 28, 2018

Kavanaugh: A year after Weinstein

Ysabela Golden
Oct 9, 2018

Concerns from the Kavanaugh trial go further than sexual misconduct

Ysabela Golden
Oct 9, 2018

Who’s profiting from America’s opioid crisis?

Ysabela Golden
Sep 16, 2018

Trump official generous enough to tell us we should be thanking them

Ysabela Golden
Sep 9, 2018

Frida Kahlo Barbie no more feminist than previous versions

Ysabela Golden
Apr 2, 2018

Who has to buy your personal data for selling it to be wrong?

Ysabela Golden
Mar 29, 2018

Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ waters down book’s complexity

Ysabela Golden
Mar 12, 2018

‘Black Panther’: Not your average superhero movie

Ysabela Golden
Mar 1, 2018

The Dumbledore problem

Ysabela Golden
Feb 15, 2018

Trump’s ‘mere allegation’ tweet reflects complexity of #MeToo movement

Ysabela Golden
Feb 12, 2018

Nunes memo is bad news for everyone involved

Ysabela Golden
Feb 5, 2018

Why ‘The Shape of Water’ is a better version of ‘Beauty and the Beast’

Ysabela Golden
Feb 4, 2018

The dangerous myth of chain migration

Ysabela Golden
Feb 1, 2018

Government shutdown shorter than 2013’s but just as troubling

Ysabela Golden
Feb 1, 2018

Review: ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ stands on its own from ‘Jumanji’

Ysabela Golden
Jan 25, 2018

Review: ‘The Post’ is all too relevant

Ysabela Golden
Jan 22, 2018

Review: It isn’t called ‘The Most Honest Showman’ for a reason

Ysabela Golden
Jan 22, 2018

The timely demise of Steve Bannon

Ysabela Golden
Jan 11, 2018

A good movie with a great mustache

Ysabela Golden
Dec 4, 2017

Better than ‘Batman v Superman’: ‘Justice League’ is lighter, funnier than its predecessor

Ysabela Golden
Dec 4, 2017

Political commentary in GVSU’s production of ‘Cabaret’ hits a little too close to home

Ysabela Golden
Nov 30, 2017
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