A botanist, a geneticist, a physicist, and a Green Beret walk into a 636-square foot simulation space capsule. It may sound like the beginning of a joke, but it really happened to Tim Evans, an associate professor of biology and director of the herbarium at Grand Valley State University. Tuesday night, Evans spoke at...
When a woman realized that maternity tops cost just 25 cents at June’s Place thrift store, she started to cry. Moments like these stand out to Louise Rutledge, a “forever resident” of Reading, Michigan, who volunteers at the non-profit, community-driven thrift store. In four short years, June’s Place at 125 S. Main Street in Reading...
Duncan Stroik, the designer behind Christ Chapel, visited campus last Thursday. We sat down with the architect for a conversation on the chapel, on architecture, and on his inspiration. Stroik, a second-generation architect, translated his childhood of visiting historic and modern buildings into a career in architecture, which he studied at the University of...
In the upper floors of F.W. Stock & Sons Mill, the air still smells faintly sweet. Bars of sunlight fall through broken windows and clouded glass, and insects buzz in the dust and the heat and the stillness. The floor is carpeted with paint flecks, decorated with pigeon feathers, and riddled with holes. Caution tape...