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Posted on August 11, 2017

Gordon Researchers Attack Allergies and Inflammation

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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."

Posted on March 1, 2017

Sarah Hague ’14: Liaison in Federal Legislature

Posted on February 8, 2017

Samuel Tsoi ’07: Navigating the Concrete Jungle by Returning to Roots

Posted on February 7, 2017

Gordon Pilots Sophomore Calling and Career Conference

Gordon recently hosted its first-ever two-day Sophomore Calling and Career Conference to help students gain professional guidance and skills early in their college careers.

Posted on December 29, 2016

Alumni in the Peace Corps: Classrooms and Community in Costa Rica

Ryan Wilkens ’15 fell in love with Costa Rica during his junior year at Gordon, when he spent a semester in San Jose for the Latin American Studies Program. Now he is six months into his two-year Peace Corps term, teaching English at an elementary school.