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The Theory of Thriving
Having been awarded a Shared Justice Student-Faculty Research Prize, Paul Brink (political science) and Jordan Bellamy ’20 investigated the effects of the increasing housing prices on the North Shore of Massachusetts, specifically in the city of Lynn.
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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.
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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.
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Meet the 2018–19 Presidential Fellows
Modeled on the highly competitive, highly effective White House Fellowship, the Gordon College Presidential Fellows program affords Gordon students the chance to work directly with Cabinet officers.
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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.
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Twese Hamwe: How 15 Students Became One
To say we all took something away from this trip doesn’t adequately express what our time in Rwanda meant to us.
Sradda Thapa ’08: Communications and Research
Sradda Thapa was a world traveler before she even got to Gordon; besides her home country, Nepal, she had lived in Hong Kong, India, and Australia. In 2012 she moved to Afghanistan, where she is with a communications firm in Kabul that works with government and international agencies.
Introducing our Student Writers
Students: The Bylines Behind The Bell
Freda Obeng-Ampofo ’08: Diplomatic press officer
Freda Obeng-Ampofo is equally fluent in English and in Twi—the principal native language of the Akan lands in Ghana. Both languages are absolutely necessary for her work as press and information officer for the Delegation of the European Union to Ghana.
Homer, Heroes and Harvard
Faculty: Dr. Bird & The Ancient Greek Hero (course enrolls 50,000 participants from 170 countries)