Dear Colleagues and Friends,

In the Padnos College, we are preparing for an exciting semester with many opportunities to engage in STEM education. We hope you will join us at the Roger That! Public Symposium that will take place on Friday, February 16th and Saturday, February 17th.

To our alumni, please consider joining the Laker Exploratory Network Alumni directory. This is a searchable directory that allows exploratory students to connect with GVSU alumni. Students can email you questions about how you picked your college major, your career path and advice on getting into your occupational field. Thank you for helping current PCEC students!

Industry partners, please join us for a collaborative panel discussion on “Demystifying the Visa Hiring Process: A Guide to Hiring International Students” on Wednesday, February 21 from 8-10 AM at the Daniel and Pamella DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health. We will be joined by our colleagues from Global Detroit, West Michigan Tech Talent, Corewell Health, BAMF Health, Bravo LT and ImLaw for this important and timely event. We look forward to seeing you there!

As always, if you have questions or comments, follow this link to Connect with the Dean

Hiring international students is a win for our employers, our students, our communities, and our economy! You will leave this event knowing what steps to take to hire an international student as an intern or employee. We hope to see you there!

The School of Computing had the pleasure of welcoming back graduates to their inaugural Computing Alumni Networking event. Alumnus and MichiganLabs co-founder and managing partner, Josh Hulst, opened the evening with an inspirational talk encouraging the West Michigan community to keep driving our region forward in technology innovation.

If you are a computing alumnus who would like to join in for future get togethers, please fill out the Alumni Connect form.

Life in space is the theme for this year's Roger That! Conference, where attendees will hear from a former NASA astronaut who was also the first orthopedic surgeon in space. Dr. Robert Satcher will deliver the keynote, speaking both days of the event, February 16 and 17. 

Programming from the conference will take a broad look at life, including microbes, plants, animals, extraterrestrial life and homo sapiens. Experts will also explore what it's like to be a human in space..

There will be two opportunities to hear Satcher present his speech. Satcher will speak at 6:30 p.m. February 16 at the L. William Seidman Center on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus. The lecture is free through registration at the Roger That! website.

Satcher will also speak at 11 a.m. Saturday, February 17th at the GRPM. Tickets for this lecture are available free of charge at the GRPM website. Advance ticketing is strongly recommended as the lecture is expected to reach capacity quickly.

Read more here.

Congratulation to Dr. Zach DeBruine for receiving the Distinguished Early-Career Scholar Award.

Dr. DeBruine leads research on transformative clinical solutions enabled by Artificial Genomic Intelligence. His student research team works on building multimodal generative AI models to solve problems in modern healthcare using big genomics datasets. 

We at PCEC are grateful for the transformative work you do advocating for excellent student-centered research, faculty-led innovation, and interdisciplinary AI literacy.

PCEC alumni, please consider joining the Laker Exploratory Network. This is a searchable directory that allows exploratory students the ability to connect with upper class students and alumni of Grand Valley.

Current exploratory students can email you questions about how you picked your college major, your career path and advice on getting into your occupational field.

Read here to learn more! 

We are excited to share that we are starting a weekly #PeopleofPCEC series where we will be shining spotlights on the different people that make PCEC PCEC. This includes you our students, alumni and faculty!

To be part of the series, complete this form if you are a Student and this form if you are an Alumni.

We look forward to interacting with you all!💙

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