Comedy in the City

Thinking on the spot is Ryan Cannister’s forte. Having spent the past two years in Gordon’s Sweaty-Toothed Madmen comedy troupe, Ryan ’19 is well-versed in the art of improvising. “I’m drawn to improv because it’s new every time,”… Read More

Making Changes in Her Home City: Jordan Bellamy ’20 in D.C.

Jordan spent the summer of 2017 as one of the Braden Joplin Memorial Interns working for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations (C.I.R.).

Newroz: Gordon’s Very Own Farmer’s Market

“Newroz” means “new day, new sun” in Kurdish—and that’s exactly what the revitalized Gordon Community Garden behind Barrington Center for the Arts promises to offer.

Codifying the Contexts of Forgiveness

“We’re studying how people understand forgiveness, what factors shape their understanding, and how it might affect the other facets of their life,” says Carter Crossett ’19 of the summer research project, “Campus as Moral Community: Contextual Understandings of… Read More

Examining Well-being Through Economics

This summer, research assistants Jenn Meakem ’19 and Mike D’Antuono ’18 (pictured right) helped Dr. Kristen Cooper (economics) and her co-authors, Professors Daniel Benjamin (University of Southern California), Ori Heffetz (Cornell University) and Miles Kimball (University of Colorado),… Read More