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No matter where you look in modern culture, Calvin researchers, writers, and performers are there. Our faculty are embedded in professional networks of all sorts. They seek justice and celebrate peace. They work to diagnose and solve problems. And they prepare students for world in need of what Christian scholars have to offer.

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100+

student researchers hired in the sciences and the humanities each summer
11

Centers and Institutes engaging global concerns in Christian scholarship
$28 million

awarded to Calvin for faculty and staff research, scholarship and programming 2013–2017

125+

publications resulting from student/faculty research, annually.

Provost Research Initiatives

Citizenship

Citizenship The Faith & Citizenship research initiative is about the formation of citizens. Through the research we develop, we ask the question, "What is a good citizen?" and try to provide meaningful answers in many different contexts.

Health

Health While the United States leads the world in spending on healthcare, actual health outcomes in this country tends to lag behind others. One of the most important strategies in addressing this problem is promoting public health.

Sustainability

Sustainability At Calvin, we want renewing God’s good earth to be a way of life, so we make sustainability a priority—as an educational goal and an institutional value.

Centers & Institutes

Recent publications

Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology by James K. A. Smith

The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods (with online resource) by Lee Hardy

John Amos Comenius: A Visionary Reformer of Schools by David Smith

En la mesa de Dios/At God's Table: Bilingual Picture Book (Spanish-English) by María Eugenia Cornou, Carrie Steenwyk, John D. Witvliet, Joel Schoon-Tanis (Illustrator)

Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age by Bruce Berglund

Evolution and the Fall by James K. A. Smith

The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Six Democracies 3rd Edition by Stephen V. Monsma, Kevin R. den Dulk, J. Christopher Soper

Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education by Andrew E. Barnes

Big Bang: From Myths to Model by Jason Smolinski

When Helping Heals by Tracy Kuperus, Roland Hoksbergen

A History of the Ottoman Empire by Doug Howard

Does the Reformation Still Matter? by Karin Maag

Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology by James K. A. Smith

The Embrace of Buildings: A Second Look at Walkable City Neighborhoods (with online resource) by Lee Hardy

John Amos Comenius: A Visionary Reformer of Schools by David Smith

En la mesa de Dios/At God's Table: Bilingual Picture Book (Spanish-English) by María Eugenia Cornou, Carrie Steenwyk, John D. Witvliet, Joel Schoon-Tanis (Illustrator)

Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague: Longing for the Sacred in a Skeptical Age by Bruce Berglund

Evolution and the Fall by James K. A. Smith

The Challenge of Pluralism: Church and State in Six Democracies 3rd Edition by Stephen V. Monsma, Kevin R. den Dulk, J. Christopher Soper

Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education by Andrew E. Barnes

Big Bang: From Myths to Model by Jason Smolinski

When Helping Heals by Tracy Kuperus, Roland Hoksbergen

A History of the Ottoman Empire by Doug Howard

Does the Reformation Still Matter? by Karin Maag

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