11/23/2004 - 10:44am - Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Santa were a woman? Put a twist in the holidays by discovering Sister Santa. The Aquinas College Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center would like to invite you to their annual holiday celebration, "What if Santa Were a Woman?" Each year the Center...Read more
11/18/2004 - 7:57am - Four dozen Aquinas College students will travel to Chicago this weekend where they will join thousands of their peers from colleges around the globe to take part the Seventh Annual American Model United Nations. The conference will take place at the Chicago Sheraton Towers November 20-23 and will...Read more
11/09/2004 - 2:33pm - On Monday, November 22 from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. Maria DeRose, graduate teaching assistant and doctoral candidate at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, will give a presentation titled Gender, Racial and Political Ideologies in American Thanksgiving. The event sponsored by the...Read more
10/14/2004 - 10:15am - Please join with others in the Grand Rapids community to celebrate the grand and glorious diversity of Spirituality through Sacred Movement at the 14th Annual World Religions Conference sponsored by The Interfaith Dialogue Association and Aquinas College. This opportunity to explore the various...Read more
10/08/2004 - 1:44pm - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN (October 8, 2004) - In 2000, award-winning photographer Subhankar Banerjee quit his scientific career and well-paying job at Boeing in Seattle, cashed in his savings, and set off on a personal mission - to document the land, wildlife and indigenous cultures of a pristine...Read more
10/07/2004 - 7:53am - Lee Gutkind, the acclaimed godfather of the creative nonfiction genre - a combination of journalism and personal expression - will speak at Aquinas College as part of the Contemporary Writers series. Gutkind - who is promoting his latest release, a memoir called Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather...Read more
10/04/2004 - 10:49am - The First Annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition is titled "The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and Its Significance in a Secular Society." The lecture will be presented by Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I., on Wednesday, October 13 at 7 p.m. in the Aquinas...Read more
09/27/2004 - 5:17pm - Clement Chiwaya '03 will speak at Aquinas on Thursday, October 7, 12:30 p.m. in the Wege Ballroom. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Clement was recently elected to the Cabinet in his home country of Malawi. The President appointed him Minister of Social Services and Disability Affairs. Clement...Read more
09/23/2004 - 1:46pm - Aquinas College will induct twelve former athlete's into its Athletic Hall of Fame Friday along with three other honorees for the College's Hall of Fame. The ceremonies will take place Friday, September 24, in the Wege Student Center Ballroom on the Aquinas campus, 1607 Robinson Road S.E. The...Read more
09/23/2004 - 1:43pm - The Sustainable Business program at Aquinas College, the West Michigan Environmental Action Council and the World Affairs Council of Western Michigan have joined together to host a workshop on Wednesday, September 29, in the Donnelly Center at Aquinas College on how U.S. energy choices affect our...Read more
09/15/2004 - 10:34am - Noted poet William Heyen will appear as part of Aquinas College's Contemporary Writers Series on Thursday, September 30 in the Wege Student Center Ballroom at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Heyen has written several poetry collections, including recently published Erika: Poems...Read more
09/15/2004 - 7:52am - Beth Shulman, author of "The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans and Their Families" will present two lectures on Wednesday, October 13. The 11:30 a.m. luncheon presentation is a fundraiser for the Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center and is part of the Center's "...Read more
09/02/2004 - 12:49pm - Fool for Christ: The Story of Dorothy Day will be performed on Monday, September 20 at 7 p.m., in the Wege Student Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public. The one-act play is the result of collaboration between well-known actress Sarah Melici and playwright Donald Yonker. Aquinas...Read more
09/01/2004 - 1:44pm - Metropolitan Hospital and Aquinas College announced today that they will jointly operate an energy and education center at Metro Health Village in Wyoming. The Center for Sustainable Energy and Education (CSEE) will produce electricity for Metropolitan Hospital and serve as a real life-learning lab...Read more
08/25/2004 - 1:10pm - According to the survey, Aquinas ranked seventh out of 15 schools on the "Best Values" list for Midwest universities. That's a jump from 12th place last year. The formula used to determine which schools offer the best value relates a school's academic quality, as indicated by the USN&WR ranking...Read more
08/11/2004 - 10:26am - Tim Vermeulen will be exhibiting oil paintings for a show in the Art and Music Center Gallery. The works in this show are small, figurative, narrative and autobiographical. The narratives, while formed through self-portraiture, are often based on established stories or series from literary sources...Read more
08/10/2004 - 8:50am - A prayer service will be held on August 12 at 4 p.m. in the Bukowski Chapel followed by a memorial Mass to be held in the fall once students have returned for classes. Details about the Mass are to be determined. The service will give members of the Aquinas community a chance to celebrate and to...Read more
04/14/2004 - 8:00am - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN (April 14, 2004) ? On Wednesday, April 28 at 12:30 to 2 p.m., the AQ Republicans are sponsoring a panel discussion titled, "How do Your Religious Beliefs Affect Your Political Decisions?" The panel discussion is in the Jarecki Center for Advanced Learning, room 105, 159...Read more
03/30/2004 - 7:00am - When a funding shortfall threatened to stop publication of the AQ Times this spring, several students with connections to area bands got together to keep the presses rolling, culminating in this exciting and diverse musical evening. Come celebrate and support the student body's written voice by...Read more
03/29/2004 - 12:55pm - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN (November 18, 2003) - Members of the Aquinas College Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center and the American Colonies History class will present "Women of the First Thanksgiving" on Tuesday, November 25 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the Aquinas Wege Student Center, Loutit Room...Read more