Community Calendar

Join WGVU for a special book swap event on Friday, Nov. 14th, 5-7 p.m., at Küsterer Brauhaus. This family-friendly community event invites book lovers around West Michigan to bring books you've already read, leave with some fresh new reads, and make some friends in between!

Please bring between 2-4 books, and make sure that your books are in reasonably good condition before bringing them in. Any books that have significant marks or damage will not be accepted.

Küsterer Brauhaus will also be doing a giveback to support WGVU Public Media's mission of service to West Michigan.

Could the key to better treatments for chronic conditions such as diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease be found in our own backyards? In this enlightening presentation, Van Andel Institute’s Dr. Nick Burton will share how studying microbes harvested from soil, leaf litter and riverbanks may help us develop new therapies for a host of diseases.

For fans of science fiction, the term “gene editing” might be a familiar term. Now, thanks to technological advances, gene editing has become a powerful real-world tool for studying — and potentially treating — disease. Join Van Andel Institute’s Dr. Hong Li, an expert in CRISPR-Cas gene editing technology, for a crash course in what gene editing is (and isn’t) and how it is changing the game in health research.