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Posted on August 14, 2019

Good Samaritans in the Burn Zone

At 9 a.m. on November 8, 2018, three Gordon alumni and their families were in bumper-to-bumper traffic on one of the three roads out of Paradise, CA, along with 26,000 other people trying to escape California’s deadliest wildfire.

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Posted on August 9, 2019

Complicated Miracles: Life in Paradise a Year After the Camp Fire

Last year in November, the Camp Fire hit Katherine Sorich’s ’05 hometown like a tidal wave, displacing 52,000 people and laying waste to 14,000 residences, but her house wasn’t one of them.

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Posted on August 6, 2019

Fighting Climate Change, One Window at a Time

In order to truly care for people, we need to work on fighting climate change while also helping people who are impacted by it," says Christine Seibert ’18, local coordinator for a Maine-based nonprofit that produces affordable window-inserts to protect homes from chilly drafts in colder months

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Posted on July 26, 2019

Trading Lab Coats for Broadway Costumes: Grad Olivia Buelow’s Gig in NYC

When Olivia Buelow '18 graduated, her eyes were set on medical school. But an unexpected opportunity to work as a wardrobe dresser on Broadway for Moulin Rouge! The Musical introduced her to a new passion.

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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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