Photo Essay

Pass the whitefish: U-M chef builds a sustainable food network

Grand Valley's Sustainable Agriculture Project, a.k.a., the SAP, is a farm spanning several acres on the outskirts of the Allendale Campus. Throughout the year, students, faculty, staff and community members get their hands dirty by helping tend to the many crops on the farm. When colder weather begins to roll in around November, the activity on the farm shifts to preparing the site for the harsh Michigan winter.

Northeastern University celebrates its graduate and undergraduate 2022 Commencement ceremony at Boston's Historic Fenway Park on Friday May 13, 2022.

A look into the variety of faiths practices by the community members of Boston University. The images were paired with the subject's own words answering the question What Does Your Faith Mean to You?

Scenes of life as the campus community unites to slow the spread of COVID-19. Students faced a digital screen to connect to their classes (top row). Faculty were challenged with new teaching environments (mid row). Staff continued to support the success of the experiences adapting to the new changes (bottom row). Though the pandemic brought physical separation, there was still a community that held together through their shared experiences.

If students can rise at dawn for their dedicated duties at the University Farm, it figured that a photographer too could rise to the occasion. As part of their reporting for the alumni magazine’s cover story, the University Photographer arrived at 5:15 a.m. to spend a half-day following students as they fed livestock, released sheep into grazing pastures, moved cows and pigs from pen to pen, and drove tractors amid harvest. For the students, it was just another day of hands-on learning, but the farm continues to instill a sense of awe in us, no matter how many times it's visited.

The UVU Women’s Soccer team became the first team in Utah Valley Athletics history to win both a Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship, a WAC Tournament title, AND an NCAA Tournament game in the same year. We’ve accomplished something that has never been done before. We also will be in the history books as the first team from Utah Valley University in any sport to have won an NCAA Tournament game. We accomplished this in a 90-minute, hard-fought battle with the Memphis Tigers in Greenville, North Carolina. In the 60th minute, Sadie Brockbank found the back of the net for the only goal in the game and kept UVU dancing.

The Sustainable Agriculture Project, also known as SAP, is the university’s educational farm, which offers interdisciplinary learning options for GVSU students and provides volunteer opportunities for the community. Since May, the SAP has donated over 500 pounds of produce to support communities impacted by COVID-19. "Once COVID-19 hit, we saw a drastic need in the community on a multitude of levels. There are people that are in need of food assistance that have never sought out assistance before and there are other people in administrative positions that are making some of the hardest decisions of their careers. By providing fresh produce on shelves and flowers on doorsteps, we are hoping to encourage others to take that step closer to hope.” -Margaux Sellnau, interim farm manager and educator, Sustainable Agriculture Project

"I truly believe horses will be a part of me for my whole life," said GVSU Sports Programs Coordinator Bri Slager. "Whenever I am stressed my first instinct is to go to the barn. It has given me a space where I can turn off the electronics and focus on the task at hand. It's a place where I can build trust with an extremely powerful and talented animal. If you give things time and trust, it can lead to amazing things."

Alejandro Marroquin travels hours every day to get radiation treatment at Liga Nacional Contra el Cáncer (INCAN) in Guatemala City, Guatamala. He lives with his extended family in a small village where there is only access to water for an hour every day. INCAN is the only clinic in the country that serves the community.