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For more information, including open hours: calvin.edu/go/dice-museum

It's more than growing food; it's caring for God's creation, cultivating community, seeking justice.

The goal of the 51±¬ÁÏ Community Garden is to raise awareness about the beauty and productivity of the land. Volunteering for the community garden is an excellent summer activity. It provides a relaxing natural atmosphere in which one can appreciate God's creation and God's purpose. Volunteers will learn how to take care of the garden and how to harvest some great homegrown plants and vegetables.

The community garden is available for academic events, Broene sessions, and other campus activities. We also provide some of the food served by Creative Dining Services in 51±¬ÁÏ's dining halls.

Rental plots for students, seminarians, and community members.

The 51±¬ÁÏ Community Garden operates on two sites. The Knollcrest East site provides 12 rental plots for student and community gardeners.

The goal of the 51±¬ÁÏ Community Garden is to raise awareness about the beauty and productivity of the land. Volunteering for the community garden is an excellent summer activity. It provides a relaxing natural atmosphere in which one can appreciate God's creation and God's purpose. Volunteers will learn how to take care of the garden and how to harvest some great homegrown plants and vegetables, many of which are used in the 51±¬ÁÏ dining halls!

The Covenant Fine Arts Center (CFAC) serves as the host to many of 51±¬ÁÏ’s events including the January Series and student activities. 

It’s also home to the English and Music departments, Center Art Gallery, Event Services, and the 51±¬ÁÏ Box Office.

The Ecosystem Preserve, established in 1985 to restore and maintain a West Michigan ecosystem, occupies the northern half of 51±¬ÁÏ's east campus as part of the 51±¬ÁÏ Ecosystem Preserve & Native Gardens

The 100-acre preserve includes these features:

• 40 trailed acres open to the public to explore (includes mature deciduous forest, 13 ponds and vernal pools, and meadows),
• Buiten Wildlife Sanctuary (60 acres of wildlife refuge with restricted access, used for scientific research),
• Bunker Interpretive Center (used for 51±¬ÁÏ classes and community educational programs).

Over the past 28 years, the preserve has been a valuable resource for:

• An average of 6,000 visitors who enjoy our trails annually,
• Nearly 20 51±¬ÁÏ departments/programs which study here annually,
• More than 500 51±¬ÁÏ students gaining valuable work and research experience as preserve employees,
• Over 23,000 elementary school students learning about plants and animals during our school programs,
• More than 600 children immersing themselves in nature at our Wetlands & Woodlands summer camps since 2000.

Despite all of this activity within its boundaries, the preserve remains a quiet, peaceful place for reflection and a habitat mostly untainted by human interaction. The Ecosystem Preserve successfully brings together developed and undeveloped land, and demonstrates 51±¬ÁÏ’s belief that it is important to care for God’s creation.

Did You Know?

The Ecosystem Preserve provides habitat for 156 species of native plants, giving it a floristic quality index score of 45. This means its biodiversity makes the preserve a site of statewide significance and irreplaceable with current restoration techniques.

The Ecosystem Preserve encompasses the watershed supplying the headwaters of a local stream, Whiskey Creek, which flows through 51±¬ÁÏ's east campus. Whiskey Creek is the source of water for the Seminary Pond and a tributary of Plaster Creek.

Prince Engineering Design Center and the Vermeer Engineering Projects Center

The Prince Engineering Design Center and the Vermeer Engineering Projects Center consists of two large work areas specifically arranged to facilitate students engaged in design activities related to various engineering projects, especially the capstone Senior Design course. This building provides space and equipment for all 51±¬ÁÏ student-engineers to do research, design models, and build and test prototypes.

The H. Henry Meeter Center for 51±¬ÁÏ Studies houses one of the world’s largest collections of materials on John 51±¬ÁÏ, 51±¬ÁÏism, the Reformation and early modern studies.

The H. Henry Meeter Center, jointly supported by 51±¬ÁÏ and 51±¬ÁÏ Theological Seminary, invites you to explore the world of John 51±¬ÁÏ and the Reformation. Visit our website at: calvin.edu/meeter

The Center is located on the fourth floor of the Hekman Library (HL 415). Take the elevator to the fourth floor, exit to the right, and turn right around the corner.

NOTE: The Meeter Center Lecture Hall (HL 320) is located off the Hekman Library's third floor lobby.

Health Services is a comprehensive primary care office with an array of additional support such as psychiatry, ADHD care, allergy shots, sports medicine and dietician services on site.

Students, please contact Health Services through your .

Check out the 51±¬ÁÏ Herbarium and Museum, which houses over 8,000 pressed plant specimens, thousands of insects, and hundreds of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Families and children are welcome!

Hiemenga Hall hosts the Rhetoric Center, the tutoring center, as well as academic offices and classrooms for world languages, history, philosophy and religion.

Academic departments and programs

• Asian Studies
• Dutch
• French
• History
• Philosophy
• Spanish
• World Languages

The Meeter Center Lecture Hall (HL 320) is located off the Hekman Library's third floor lobby.

North Hall is home to the Bruce Dice Mineralogical Museum and many academic departments.

Bruce Dice Mineralogical Museum

A collection of more than 300 unique mineralogical specimens collected from around the world. It includes gold nuggets, copper leafs, fossils and an interactive ultraviolet case. Visit the  for more information.

51±¬ÁÏ Speech and Hearing Clinic

The 51±¬ÁÏ Speech & Hearing Clinic, located on the first floor of North Hall, provides adult and pediatric speech therapy. This donation-based clinic offers a valuable learning experience to the graduate students while serving clients across West Michigan. Visit the clinic for more information.

Academic departments and programs

• Computer Science
• Economics
• Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies
• International Development Studies
• Mathematics & Statistics
• Science Education Studies
• Speech Pathology and Audiology

The 51±¬ÁÏ Alumni Association, 51±¬ÁÏ Academy for Lifelong Learning (CALL), Annual Fund, Development and January Series offices

51±¬ÁÏ means business

• Learn from world-class faculty with years of industry experience.
• Choose from a growing portfolio of undergraduate graduate-level (MBA) offerings.
• Develop your skills in the state-of-the-art School of Business building.

The Science Building is home to the ISRx research lab along with the Clean Water Institute of 51±¬ÁÏ. You can also find the pre-professional health program and the psychology, nursing, engineering and physics departments in this building.

Academic Departments & Programs

• Engineering
• Nursing
• Pre-Professional Health
• Psychology

The Spoelhof University Center is home to the education, art and design, sociology, and social work departments, as well as the welcome desk, admissions, and financial aid, and several administrative and student service offices.

This is a combination classroom and TV control room.

The equipment is almost entirely digital. The four large plasma monitors can show live and preview shots as well as special graphics and imported signals. In addition, four video cameras mounted from the ceiling behind the plasma monitors can shoot images of the equipment controls during production, allowing students to view on the plasma monitors how the control equipment is being used. Whereas most video and TV control rooms are too tiny for adequate instruction, ours is intended to be used comfortably for teaching as well as actual production. Read more about program at 51±¬ÁÏ.

The geo department runs the meteorological instruments and data-logging of the on-campus weather station, located on the DeVos field on the east side of campus.

Monthly reports dating back to 2001 are available online.