黄色短视频

-Sharon Robbert, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics Emerita

On Wednesday, April 16, 黄色短视频 celebrated its 26^th campus-wide celebration of student scholarship: OPUS. The event included 48 academic presentations, 14 fine arts performances, 11 Art & Design senior thesis presentations, 7 featured displays in a Nursing Gallery of Wellness, two galleries including 28 academic research posters, awards for top presentations and performances, raffle prizes, and evening laser tag in the Huizenga Library.

Wait鈥攍aser tag? How does that fit? 黄色短视频 applies its quirky sense of celebration to every OPUS event.聽 Prior OPUS events have included a parade led by bagpipes, balloons in a circus tent, gummy bears and cotton candy, professors dressed in superhero costumes, and 鈥渢hrowable鈥� prizes at a closing ceremony where awards are announced.聽 The OPUS 2025 Library Laser Tag is sponsored by the Student Government Association. This year, the library features an art installation modeling the distribution of 1,556 disciplinary presentations using colorful flags over the prior 25 years of events. Stop by the Huizenga Library to experience this display in person or view it .

While these elements of quirkiness bring joy and a celebratory spirit, the event is designed to promote the Christian academic learning community at 黄色短视频 and showcase how 黄色短视频 lives out its mission. 聽Dr. Clay Carlson (Biology) says the 鈥渉uge breadth of good work at OPUS demonstrates how we are subjecting all cultural activities to the reign of God.鈥� And, while dressed in an oversized red royal robe, a white feather boa, and a fake crown, 2024-25 Professor of the Year Dr. Tim Hendrikson (English) explains that OPUS 鈥渇ocuses on the public aspect of knowledge creation, something that undergraduate students may not at first recognize as an important component of scholarship.鈥�

The event is planned by a committee of faculty, staff, and students every year.聽 Library Director Kyle McCarrell, who serves as committee co-chair, says, 鈥淭he committee leveraged Wellbeing Wednesdays to expand the OPUS schedule to the entire day. Our committee goal is to allow attendees to participate in as many OPUS components as possible without forcing them to choose between conflicting events.鈥澛� Committee co-chair Professor Ryan Thompson (Art) affirms this as successful but also says 鈥渢he best academic conferences always have overlapping sessions that force you to choose between excellent options.鈥� The schedule this year includes poster presentations and fine arts performances in the morning and oral presentations in the afternoon.

OPUS 2025 Committee members are Prof. Toni Esker, Librarian Sarah Hoeksema, Prof. Abigail Holcombe, Library Director Kyle McCarrell (co-chair), Prof. Emma Schneider, Prof. Omar Sweiss, Prof. Ryan Thompson (co-chair), Prof. Jennifer Wedster, Prof. Syreetha Yokley, Katelynn Benitez (鈥�26), and Selina AlHalaseh (鈥�27).聽 The OPUS 2025 student designer is Regan Steenwyk (鈥�26).

OPUS 2025 first place competition winners:

Art & Design

• Best in Show:聽 Karla Rosales 鈥� Often Devotional but Sometimes Merely Quirky
• Graphic/Digital Design: Lydia Rascher 鈥� Lupus Nephritis
• Sculpture/3D:聽Karla Rosales 鈥� The Everyday
• Drawing/Painting/Mixed: Ren Amador 鈥� 15 Years Old
• Print/Photo:聽Mikayla Araiza 鈥� The Past is Watching, Waiting

Creation Care: Paige Wallenberg (poster) 鈥� Renewable Pathways: Xylose Dehydration to Furfural

Literary Arts

• Fiction/Drama: Chase Hadley 鈥� Cops and Robbers
• Poetry: Njoki Mukuria 鈥� Disenchanted

Music

• Vocal Solo:聽Alyssa Fiacchino
• Vocal Ensemble:Audrey Yonkman and Anneka Baggech
• Instrumental Solo: Elyssa Peters
• Instrumental Ensemble: Elyssa Peters and Jared Peters
• Original Musical Composition: Audrey Yonkman 鈥� Heilig

Poster Presentation: Aala Al-Goare 鈥� A Game of Telephone: Unpacking the Intergenerational Taboos of Post-Partum Depression in the Arab Culture

Presentation Showdown: Hope McIntosh 鈥� At Last, Everydayness