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Posted on March 15, 2018

World Vision CEO Explores Calling and Current Humanitarian Crises

Last week during Connect 2018, a college visit day dedicated to helping future Gordon students explore their calling, World Vision Canada CEO Dr. Michael Messenger ’90 visited campus for a Conversation with the President.

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Posted on February 8, 2018

Findings: Taking Students' Art into the Community

Findings is a collaborative gallery created by Gordon art students and seasoned members of Gordon's arts community. This year, five sophomore art majors and three mentors are presenting works.

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Posted on October 2, 2017

Is Faith More Powerful Than the “Big C”?: Renowned Oncologist and Visiting Scholar Demystifies Cancer

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Posted on September 29, 2017

Gordon Alumnus Publishes A. J. Gordon Biography

Kevin Belmonte ’90 did something that hasn’t been done in 121 years: he published a comprehensive biography about A. J. Gordon, founder of Gordon College and prolific 19th-century Christian thinker.

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Posted on August 3, 2017

Determination and Integration: Fighting HIV in South Africa

“The ultimate purpose is finding a vaccine for HIV,” Tatenda Makoni ’17 says of the research project to which she’s contributing this summer at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine in Zimbabwe.

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verna curfman

Posted on July 5, 2017

Making Strides in Medical Research, One Step at a Time

Verna Curfman ’17 and John Yoon ’14 were recently recognized for their research in the labs of Duke University, with their names appearing in an article published by The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.

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alysa see land

Posted on June 21, 2017

FOND Bone Broth: A Modern Family Business

Sisters Alysa (Obert) Seeland ’11 and Anna Obert ’16 are proving that family businesses are not something of the past; their new company, FOND Bone Broth, has found success in a hungry market.

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Posted on June 5, 2017

How Language Study Shaped Stephen Zani’s Mindset

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Posted on June 1, 2017

Julie Korn ’02: Art and Play in Niger

CURE Niger, a children’s hospital in Africa where Josh ’05 and Julie ’02 Korn serve, has a new playground for patients, funded in part by the sales of final artwork by students in the Gordon IN Orvieto program.

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anna jonker

Posted on May 22, 2017

Alumni in the Peace Corps: Building Cultural Bridges in Nicaragua

While studying at Gordon, Anna Jonker ’14 was met with a life-changing opportunity that began when she met a Peace Corps representative at a career fair and received a nudge of encouragement from Dr. Dorothy Boorse (biology).

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roland griggs

Posted on May 1, 2017

Alumni in the Peace Corps: Cross-Cultural Understanding in Ghana

Since 2015, Roland has been serving as an agriculture volunteer in northern Ghana, where he teaches farm management practices and helps groups of farmers form mutually beneficial partnerships.

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Posted on April 21, 2017

Conversation Leading to Communion: A New Paradigm of Mentorship

Collaboration, Bruce Herman says, “is about getting outside of yourself and your own preoccupations and listening for and building toward common ground with others."

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