Posted on August 20, 2018
Art, Science and Advocacy: The Many Faces of Our Mental Health
The start of any new semester brings lots of new faces to campus. But the 99 faces in Ken Olsen Science Center don’t belong to first-year students or faculty members.
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Posted on August 17, 2018
Bob Goff to Bring Wisdom and Whimsy to Gordon
This year, New York Times Best-selling author Bob Goff, founder of the nonprofit Love Does, will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2018 Homecoming Awards: A Celebration of Faithful Leadership, September 28.
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Posted on August 6, 2018
Exploring the future of gene editing with Dr. Francis Collins
Last weekend, Gordon hosted Dr. Francis Collins, the physician-geneticist known for leading the Human Genome Project, for a public lecture on gene editing.
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Posted on July 27, 2018
Joe Bandy ’19 Goes to Hollywood
At Alcon Entertainment in Beverly Hills, Joe Bandy ’19 is getting to see Hollywood’s underbelly—full of private guilds, hordes of untapped movie scripts and social media savvy film directors.
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Posted on July 9, 2018
Sabbatical Sojourns: Oleksiy Svitelskiy
Sabbatical allowed Oleksiy Svitelskiy to kickstart two projects funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), and to expand his laboratory.
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Posted on July 2, 2018
Sabbatical Sojourns: Mark Stevick
True to his discipline, Mark Stevick spent much of his sabbatical writing—in particular, starting a play and working on a book of poetry.
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Posted on June 25, 2018
Sabbatical Sojourns: Elaine Phillips
Sabbatical for Elaine Phillips meant trotting the globe—she conducted research and taught stateside, in England and in Israel.
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Posted on June 18, 2018
Sabbatical Sojourns: Mike Jacobs
From Estonia to Latvia to Lithuania, Mike Jacobs explored the potential for an international seminar in the Baltics during sabbatical.
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Posted on June 11, 2018
Sabbatical Sojourns: Jennifer Hevelone-Harper
The main objective of Jennifer Hevelone-Harper's spring sabbatical was to turn a dream into a reality by beginning to write a book about medieval spirituality.
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Posted on June 7, 2018
Shelby Sundling Lathrop ’96: The Winding Road to a Creative Arts Emmy Award
Shelby Sundling Lathrop ’96 won a Creative Arts Emmy for “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media within an Unscripted Program” as supervising producer of "The Oscars: All Access."
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Posted on May 31, 2018
Sarah (Durfey) Dunham ’09: Modern Day Abolitionist
For over a decade, Sarah (Durfey) Dunham ’09 has worked on the front lines of fighting human trafficking. Now she and her husband, Jared, are on a new journey to create safe spaces for people at risk.
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Posted on May 24, 2018
Celebrating our Retiring ‘Scribbler on the ’Teuch’
During a night of Fiddler on the Roof parodies, Old Testament one-liners, Yiddish slang, Hebrew prayers and words from friends, the Gordon community celebrated the retirement of Dr. Marv Wilson (biblical studies and Christian ministries) with a tribute program to honor his 55-plus years at Gordon.
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