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.
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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.
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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.
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Posted on May 9, 2024
Gordon Secures Digital Marketing Certification Partnerships from DMI and AMA
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.
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Posted on May 3, 2024
Gordon History Made: Dr. Oleksiy Svitelskiy Receives $400K in Fourth NSF Grant Milestone
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.
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Posted on May 2, 2024
Gordon Places for Second Year in a Row at International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition
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.”
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Posted on April 24, 2024
Student-Led Innovation: Symposium Showcases Diversity of Thought and Learning at Gordon
For Symposium 2024, students led and participated in debates, lectures, discussions and even hands-on activities with their peers and campus community to discuss the theme of "The One and the Many."
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Posted on April 2, 2024
Navigating Political Discontent: Dr. Paul Brink's Search for Fairness and Justice
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.
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Posted on March 21, 2024
Economics as a Moral Science: Dr. Jeffrey T. Young's Franz Lecture Highlights
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."
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Posted on March 20, 2024
Gordon College at the Forefront: Craig Story Conducts Cancer Research with Immunofluorescence Microscopy
Gordon’s lab will soon be counted among the labs in the Boston area that can perform immunofluorescence microscopy for cancer research thanks to the work Dr. Craig Story, professor of biology, began over his sabbatical last semester.
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Posted on March 5, 2024
Q&A with New Faculty: Kenann McKenzie-DeFranza
Kenann McKenzie-DeFranza joins Gordon as the director of academic innovation and strategic partnerships and associate professor in the practice of education.
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Posted on March 5, 2024
Q&A with New Faculty: Steve Strombeck
Steve Strombeck joins the Gordon faculty as a professor of business and marketing and has research interests in services marketing, branding and Asian business practices.
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