ALL ABOUT DU
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
(GLIAC)
This festival, celebrated in the fall months, is an art competition developed in Grand Rapids, MI where artists display their work over a three-square-mile radius for the venue.
ArtPrize (cancelled 2020 due to COVID-19)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
"I'll be back..."
This developed country is one of three in the world that does not use the metric system when describing things like length or mass.
United States of America
HOW YOU BREWIN'?
This campus location is known for their beverages that are made on-the-spot.
DU HUB
This beautiful 158-acre botanical garden, art museum, and outdoor sculpture park opened to the general public in April 1995 after over 13 years of planning and fundraising.
Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
The first person to enter space was from the Soviet Union (now Russia) in 1961. In 1969, this country sent the first man to walk on the moon.
United States of America
"INCONCEIVABLE..."
The Princess Bride (1987)
The coldest temperature ever recorded between 2004 and 2016 was -144 degrees Fahrenheit on this continent
Antarctica
DID SOMEONE SAY... POPCORN?
This popular spot on campus is known for all things related to student engagement.
Center for Campus Life
This popular location in Downtown GR is home to lots of outdoor concerts over summer evenings and ice skate rentals during the cold winter months. Created by artist Maya Lin.
Rosa Parks Circle
Because of the absence of gravity in outer space, astronauts grow about ___ inches when their spine begins to stretch out.
2 inches
"Put that things back where it came from OR SO HELP ME!"
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
This popular social media site has more users than the population of the U.S., China, and Brazil combined.
Facebook, Inc.
This location around campus is for those that are in need of professional clothing, personal hygiene products, and small non-perishable items.
Panther Resource Closet
BATTER UP!
This local sports complex hosts minor league baseball for the West Michigan Whitecaps and other sporting events.
Fifth Third Ballpark
The name for when the moon appears larger and brighter than normal because of how close it is to Earth. This happens roughly every 14 months.
Supermoon
"Houston, we have a problem"
Apollo 13 (1995)
After claiming independence from Sudan in North Africa in 2011, this country is known as the youngest country in the world with only nine years of existence!
South Sudan
The first residence halls to be built for on-campus living arrangements.
Cook & Meijer Hall
John Ball Zoological Garden
This planet is home to the solar system's tallest volcano: Olympus Mons.
Mars
"Where we're going, we don't need roads."
Back to the Future (1985)
According to National Geographic, this US city is said to be capable of fitting the entire world population shoulder-to-shoulder withing 500 square miles.
Los Angeles