Hear the insights that Weekend alumni Mia Yu, ’18, and Harish Venkitaramanan, ’18, are taking away from their time at Booth. Mia Yu, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants When she applied to the Weekend ...

Nita Hemeter remembers the barking and meowing, and being able to look up from the middle of a New Orleans darkened by power outages to see "every star in the sky." It was early September 2005, a ...

Three years ago, Perrion Winfrey was on top of the world. After having to go the junior college route before landing a prominent role at Oklahoma, Winfrey shined bright enough in his two seasons with ...

As we drove in a car littered with brown McDonald’s bags and quarter-filled Coke bottles, my 17-year-old nephew had suddenly turned all Scottie Scheffler on me. At the Open Championship this summer, ...

Pretty much every American schoolkid knows the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in the 1960s, one of the most thoroughly documented murders in our country’s history. As a guy who ...

There is something humbling about realizing that the most urgent climate questions we wrestle with today were, in many ways, already being answered decades ago. Scientists, policymakers, and ordinary ...

On January 1, 2025, David LaGrand ’88 was sworn in as the mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan. In doing so, he became the first Calvin University graduate to assume this specific role. A mayor’s role, in ...

The Milwaukee Brewers have lost four straight games heading into Sunday's action. However, thanks to a hot start, they remain two games over .500 and well within striking distance of the NL ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

Tutor stories and teaching moments have a way of writing themselves. The smell of old textbooks, the endless ping of messenger notifications, a mother demanding a discount because her son is gifted — ...