Posts Tagged "outcomes"

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Posted on January 22, 2019

Bearing Witness to the Bosnian War Through YA Fiction

Perhaps the greatest challenge that Carrie Arcos ’95 encountered while writing her newest novel, We Are All That’s Left, was authenticity.

Posted on November 20, 2018

01984 to 02215 to 20001

Three Gordon roommates—Jesse Adams ’11, James Williams ’10 and Joshua Di Frances x’08—follow their careers and each other from Wenham to Boston to Washington, D.C.

Posted on October 17, 2018

Reimagining Shalom

With guidance and encouragement from Sybil Coleman (social work), Kelly (Connolly) Palmer ’13, LMSW, is working toward God’s vision of justice—something she likens to shalom.

Posted on October 12, 2018

Julia Spruance ’11: Shattering a Stigma at 19,000 feet

In 2011, for the first time in Kilifi County, Kenya, parents of hearing-impaired children were saying, “I want to communicate with my child.” Julia Spruance’s 100 Signs for Parents in Kenya Sign-Language was their introduction.

Posted on October 9, 2018

An Experiment in Multilayered Mentorship

Dr. Evangeline “Angie” Cornwell (biology), Courtney Olbrich ’18 and Dr. Lisa Spencer ’95 investigate the function of a certain type of white blood cell in the rise of allergies, specifically food allergies.

Posted on October 2, 2018

For the Craft and the Creator

For 20 years, artists Bruce Herman and Bryn Gillette ’02 have been pursuing the perennial question they discussed in their very first meeting: What does it mean to be a Christian who is an artist?

Posted on September 25, 2018

The Art of Seeing the Subtext

Over the course of three years, Kaye Cook (psychology) and Si-Hua Chang ’16 created ways to code qualitative research on topics ranging from how the Church has changed to whether women should be ordained to national laws that potentially undermine church practice.

Posted on June 7, 2018

Shelby Sundling Lathrop ’96: The Winding Road to a Creative Arts Emmy Award

Shelby Sundling Lathrop ’96 won a Creative Arts Emmy for “Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media within an Unscripted Program” as supervising producer of "The Oscars: All Access."

Posted on May 31, 2018

Sarah (Durfey) Dunham ’09: Modern Day Abolitionist

For over a decade, Sarah (Durfey) Dunham ’09 has worked on the front lines of fighting human trafficking. Now she and her husband, Jared, are on a new journey to create safe spaces for people at risk.

Posted on May 24, 2018

Prashan De Visser ’08: Relationships Across Enemy Lines

As a young boy who grew up in a country experiencing a brutal 28-year civil war, Prashan de Visser ’08 realized how easy it was to hate someone. But by forming friendships, he learned that the stereotypes of the "enemy" were often wrong.

Posted on May 17, 2018

Matt Taylor ’06: Decoding Disabilities

As a post-doctoral scholar in STEM education, Dr. Matt Taylor ’06 is in the business of turning perceived weaknesses into strengths—with help from NASA and a robot named Dash.

Posted on May 10, 2018

Kevin ’09 and Ryn Grant ’10: Opening the North Shore’s New Haunt

At The Castle, the North Shore’s very own board game and trivia night café in Beverly, MA, you’ll likely find yourself doing things you never thought possible— like giving your friends some bad tattoos or traveling back in time to solve a mystery.