Research

Collegiate Scholars want to grow as leaders while pursuing their academic goals. They seek out extra-curricular activities and opportunities to engage with their community.

Calvin's cohorts blur the line between the classroom and the real world. Together with students and faculty from different majors, you'll pursue a common theme all throughout your college experience, starting in your first year.

Become an environmental leader and care for creation by working on Calvin's 100+ acres of native plants and natural habitats.

Learning about science by doing science is the heart of the FYRES experience. Students investigate interesting questions about Lake Michigan coastal dunes, and the resulting knowledge is used by dune managers and scientists working with the dunes.

Work closely with faculty mentors on their research over the summer. McGregor Fellows also meet weekly to explore the life of a scholar, from what to expect in graduate school, to the meaning of Christian scholarship, to specific research methodologies. 

Calvin boasts access to two fully-equipped observatories, one on Calvin's campus and a robotically-operated telescope in Rehoboth, New Mexico. The telescopes are used by students at all levels, from first year non-science majors to fourth year physics majors.

Calvin’s biology department offers a special research program for a select group of first-year students. You’ll isolate and analyze a unique bacterial virus, called a “phage.”  Then you'll catalog your data in an international DNA sequence database.