Posted on September 26, 2016
20 Things You Didn’t Know About Gordon’s New Board of Trustees Leadership
The College’s Board of Trustees is under new leadership, and though their résumés are impressive, to be sure, there’s more to Gordon’s chairman and vice chairman than meets the eye.
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Posted on September 20, 2016
A New Home for Compass
Gordon College’s La Vida Center for Outdoor Education and Leadership has recently adopted a new program that takes high school students on three consecutive expeditions—through the wilderness, theology and ministry.
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Posted on September 12, 2016
The Biologist and the Beekeeper
For years, Dr. Craig Story (biology) listened to requests from students interested in having a bee hive to study apiculture, or beekeeping. Now for the first time, Gordon has its own hive and a new student club, the Gordon College Beekeeping Association (GCBA).
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Posted on September 8, 2016
Business Strategies and Savvy Finances: An Internship in Hong Kong
Preparing to study abroad requires entering the mindset that your experience will be both challenging and rewarding. After all, the wave of excitement and culture shock is likely to hit. But what happens when you intern abroad?
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Posted on September 7, 2016
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Reinventing Shakespearean Performance
In the heart of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, Italy, Karin Coonrod ’75 directed "The Merchant of Venice," followed by a mock trial for the play’s main character held by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Posted on September 1, 2016
Seeing Cleveland through an Intern's Eyes
"Before heading into my second year at Gordon, I wanted to get a good look into the medical world (specifically the hospital environment) to confirm that studying biology was, in fact, the right thing for me."
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Posted on August 24, 2016
Toward Global Good—From Rwanda to Texas
One summer, 8,500 miles: Nathalia Moran ’18 finds the overlap between her Rwanda Seminar experience and a Texas-based nonprofit internship.
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Posted on August 22, 2016
Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Leaving and Arriving
Bell writer Sierra Flach ’18 has traded her Road Hall at Gordon for the rolling hills of New Zealand, where she will be bringing the latest from her study abroad adventure in the last stop before Antarctica.
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Posted on August 19, 2016
Surveying Streams and Wrangling Fish with the U.S. Forest Service
When Josh McLaughlin ’17 found himself face down in snorkel gear and a dry suit, plucking mussels from the bed of the John Day River in Oregon, he wasn’t simply taking a mud bath.
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Posted on August 18, 2016
Gordon Team Boosts Fair Trade Business Expansion in India
Gordon students and alumna collaborate to expand operations for Anugra, a fair trade textile enterprise that helps women in India escape poverty.
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Posted on August 16, 2016
Jeremy Puz ’09: Turning Furniture into Art
What began as a simple home project—building a shelf out of discarded pallet board—has turned into one alum's thriving woodworking business called Ingrained in Beverly, Massachusetts.
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Posted on August 11, 2016
Rachele Gardner ’09: Engaging Youth for Community Impact
Rachele Gardner ’09 has chosen to fully invest in her community of Dorchester, the largest neighborhood in Boston and one with a high youth unemployment rate.
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