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…GVSU has been named one of the top universities in the midwest by the Princeton Review …

… and the #1 Up-and-coming Masters Universities (Midwest) by US News & World Report

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…The Computer Science and Information Systems programs have been approved for 6 year accreditation by ABET

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…The GVSU School of Engineering and Westown Jubilee Housing won the 2009 Carter Partnership Award for outstanding campus-community partnerships recognizing the program that helps create energy efficient housing for low-income families

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…Jerry Scripps and Jerry DeHondt have both successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertations

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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…a team of engineering freshman won the Trinity College International RoboWaiter competition

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…Scott Grissom will be serving at NSF as a program officer for 1 – 2 years

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…Engineering student Alber Puzzuoli won the award for best student paper in the ASEE North Central Section conference

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…The Medical and BioInformatics lab improvements in CHS have been completed

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…Heidi Jiao and Nael Barakat have been awarded a $200,000 NSF grant for Integration of Nanotechnology into Undergraduate Engineering and Science Education

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…An interdisciplinary team of GVSU students and faculty were invited by a major Detroit area real estate owner to help think about the future in creative ways…

“The best part of the entire seminar was the knowledge that we were going to have an impact on not only the commercial building in question, but also the surrounding neighborhood. We took part in rebuilding Detroit!”

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…The 2009 School of Engineering graduating class had the largest number of women in the history of the BSE program

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…Students in the Padnos College received over 135,000 hours of practical experience through the co-op and internship programs.

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…Padnos College Student Services staff engaged over 3,100 K–12 students via outreach activities including camps, school visits and on site events.

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…Padnos College Faculty and Staff produced 105 scholarly works including papers, presentations, books, book chapters, proceedings, etc. this year….

… and received over $425,000 in external support.

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…Student Success efforts are paying off

Retention and Graduation

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85.9%

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69.3%

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…and GVSU is introducing a new on-line tool to inform and assist students and advisors/mentors - MapWorks

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…”A survey of HR managers suggests the most likely jobs will be in computer science, engineering and health care by the time this fall’s incoming students graduate in 2014.”

Grand Rapids Press 8/26/09 citing Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc