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Now in its seventh year of existence, the Gainey Leadership Retreat for Calvin's student-athletes continues to thrive. The week-long retreat, which takes place in mid-August at the Two Moose Ranch in ...

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"When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any person, it will exercise his mind with suffering, sinews and bones with hard work, and place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to ...

There was a time when we believed that once you knew how to do something then that was it. Mission accomplished. The skill set was learned and the only thing to do was to put it into practice. It ...

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Students in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (MSAI) program received an unorthodox lesson this school year: A lesson in improv. The art of improvisation is not ...

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