Posted on June 17, 2024
How to Make the Most of Your Rising Senior Summer
Prepare for college and enjoy your summer at the same time by following these tips for rising high school seniors.
News and Stories
Posted on June 14, 2024
Hope & Health Conference 2024 Addresses Critical Public Health Issues
Gordon College's second annual public health conference brought together local healthcare professionals and public health organizations to discuss community-based and clinic-based issues.
Posted on June 13, 2024
24 in 24: Highlights from the 2023–24 Academic Year at Gordon
Let's look back! From groundbreaking research to the spreading of Shalom to athletic triumphs, 2024 was a memorable journey for the Gordon College community. In recognition of the faithful collaboration that makes our community unique, let’s revisit 24 highlights from the 2023–24 academic year.
Posted on June 12, 2024
Aaron Wright ’24: Contributing to Heart and Brain Health at the Framingham Heart Study
Newly minted Gordon graduate and a former Pike Honors student Aaron Wright `24 interned in the neuropsychology department of the Framingham Heart Study, assisting with key research on the symptomatology of cognitive dementia to help patients counter cognitive decay.
Posted on June 11, 2024
ECBA Awards $10,000 to Dr. Craig Story’s Collaborative Research with USDA
The Essex County Beekeepers’ Association (ECBA) has awarded Dr. Craig Story a $10,000 grant on honeybee diet and virus research in collaboration with the USDA Bee Research Laboratory and Gordon students.
Posted on June 7, 2024
How Some of Boston’s Elite Quietly Transformed Society: Prof. David Goss Tells the Loring Family Story
Professor David Goss spent his sabbatical last semester exploring how the Loring family—longstanding financial supporters and trustees of Gordon College—used their wealth to fuel social reforms that helped orphans, widows and immigrants right here on the North Shore during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Posted on June 6, 2024
Gordon College’s Bod Pod: Dr. Yi Sun on the Latest Technology in Body Composition
Gordon College has acquired a piece of equipment called the “Bod Pod” that uses air-displacement plethysmography to accurately determine a person’s body composition, which Dr. Yi Sun regularly uses in her classes and in her research.
Posted on May 30, 2024
Melanie Hyo-In Han ’16 ’19 Shares Her Experience as a Published Author and TCK
Melanie Hyo-In Han ’16 M’19 recently published her first full-length book, My Dear Yeast, about her experience growing up as a third-culture kid (TCK), and shares what life is like as a published writer.
Posted on May 29, 2024
John Lowry’s ’94 Ultimate Adventure: Rowing 3,275 Miles Across the Atlantic
On June 1 John Lowry ’94 will undertake his greatest challenge yet: being a part of the first- ever human-powered rowboat Atlantic crossing from Boston to London. Over the course of about 45 days, he and three others will row 24 hours a day to cover 3,275 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
Posted on May 23, 2024
From Past to Present: Grace Stinger’s ’24 Graduation Marks Centennial Legacy at Gordon
Grace Stinger ’24 graduated exactly 100 years after her great-grandmother, but she's only one of many Gordon grads in her family, as she discovered thanks to the Gordon Archives.
Posted on May 14, 2024
10 Tips for First-Generation College Students
Being the first in your family to go to college is a wonderful and exciting opportunity, but it can also feel intimidating and overwhelming. Gordon first-gen students Cecilia Gilbert ’24 (psychology) and Frankie Noguera ’26 (communication arts) offer their advice.
Posted on May 13, 2024
Gordon Celebrates 132nd Commencement
Gordon College honored the Class of 2024, conferring degrees on 292 undergraduate students and 119 graduate students, including the inaugural graduate cohort for the Master of Public Health.