Posted on July 18, 2019
Alum Awarded White House Honors for Medical Breakthroughs
Dr. John E. Harris ’98 receives the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.
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Posted on July 4, 2019
Making Stars for the Next Moon Landing
Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag on the moon’s powdery surface, the stars were a little lackluster, especially in retrospect.
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Posted on June 21, 2019
'Wall Street Journal' Features Andrew Huang ’18 and Neema Kamau ’20
A Gordon student and alumnus were both named in a recent Wall Street Journal article on the benefits of a small college approach to preparing for big jobs.
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Posted on June 17, 2019
From Boston to Rwanda: Initial Steps of the Class of 2019
Before packing up and leaving campus for good, several graduates let The Bell know where they’d be taking their first postgraduate steps.
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Posted on June 10, 2019
On Offense for the New England Patriots
From doing the team’s laundry to now managing their day-to-day operations and travel, Bobby Brown '14 says the key to his success working for the New England Patriots is “a servant’s heart and focus on servant leadership.”
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Posted on May 9, 2019
Even Stories Need Tech Support: Christine Geiger ’90
On KYUK Public Radio, a volunteer-run NPR member station broadcast from inside Alaska’s Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, someone from anywhere in the world can livestream the Yup’ik Word of the Week or follow Iditarod mushers and their sled dogs through 1,000 miles of Alaska’s harshest terrain.
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Posted on April 29, 2019
Jason Russell ’04: Music and its Many Remedies
To Jason Russell ’04, music is more than just something to listen to on the commute to work; it has the power to help people’s lives change for the better.
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Posted on March 21, 2019
From the Cradle to the Grave: Newborn Humpback Whales and Dearly Departed People
In February, Mindy Hofsass ’04 locked eyes with a curious humpback whale calf through her snorkel mask in the open ocean of the Silver Bank Marine Mammal Sanctuary just 80 miles off the coast of the Dominican Republic.
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Posted on March 18, 2019
Revolutionizing Reading in Liberia
In Harbel, Margibi County, Liberia—a community once shattered by two civil wars that propagated the use of child soldiers—Ollie White ’18 is building Beautiful Beginnings.
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Posted on March 7, 2019
Reengineering America’s Long-lost Tree
Legend has it that a squirrel could travel from Georgia to Maine on nothing but the branches of American chestnut trees without ever touching the ground.
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Posted on March 1, 2019
Alumnus Tackles Crisis in the Immigrant Church
The youth pastor of Arabic Evangelical Baptist Church in West Roxbury, MA, Karim (Kika) Ghobrial '16 feels compelled by his Egyptian roots to address an important phenomenon that he has witnessed in the immigrant church.
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Posted on March 1, 2019
Messiness and Moxie
While many don’t want to relive the awkward, messy years of middle school, Middle School Assistant Principal Karl Simon ’01 sees the sweetness in them.
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