Posted on September 17, 2024
Ellen Ballock, Ph.D. and Priscilla Nelson ‘74, Ed.D. of the Herschend School of Education share their insights into the literacy crisis in America—and how Gordon is using the science of reading to combat it.
Posted on July 31, 2024
Dr. Graeme Bird studied several newly discovered papyrus fragments of The Iliad over his sabbatical last semester, exploring the connection between Homer’s poetry, oral history, faith and jazz improvisation.
Posted on July 22, 2024
Dr. Kristen Siaw, assistant professor of physics and chemistry, spent the last year on two different sabbaticals conducting research on Gordon’s campus and at Boston University in zinc oxide and microfluidics.
Posted on July 1, 2024
On June 13-14, more than 100 students, faculty and staff of the Gordon in Orvieto program traveled back to the Italian hill city to celebrate the program’s 25th anniversary.
Posted on June 20, 2024
Gordon and the European Center for the Study of War and Peace (ECSWP)—the host for Gordon’s Balkans semester—recently completed a pioneering practical peacemaking initiative funded by a grant from the Lilly Fellows Program involving schools like Harvard University and Messiah University to incorporate peacemaking into curricula and student life of their universities.
Posted on June 7, 2024
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 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 9, 2024
Gordon students can now be certified by the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI) and the American Marketing Association (AMA)—the two largest resource organizations for marketers and accreditations in the marketing world––thanks to a partnership Greg Smith, professor of business and marketing, has made with both institutions.
Posted on May 3, 2024
Oleksiy Svitelskiy secured his fourth NSF grant of 400k, the largest NSF grant Gordon has ever received. The grant is a continuation of a collaboration with the Ekinci Group at Boston University (BU), an R1 institution. Dr. Kristen Siaw will be his co-primary investigator on the grant.
Posted on May 2, 2024
For the second year in a row, a team from Gordon’s Business Club competed at the International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition (ICBSC) and had stellar results, winning awards for “Best Overall Performance” and “Best Documents in Their World.”
Posted on April 2, 2024
Dr. Paul Brink, professor of political science, spent his sabbatical exploring reasons behind this political dissatisfaction and seeking to find a different approach to fairness and justice. He found our country is in desperate need of a theory of justice that takes better account of the diverse communities and identities of American society.
Posted on March 21, 2024
On Thursday, March 14, Gordon College hosted its annual Franz Lecture, a legacy event that’s been happening for over 30 years in honor of the late Professor David Franz, a visionary who helped shape the social sciences at Gordon. This year Young presented the lecture, based on his newly published book "Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution: Economics as a Moral Science Once Again."