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Breaking Barriers in Education: Bill Laforme’s ’24M Work with Juvenile Justice
Bill Laforme ’24M is now an English and history teacher at the Department of Youth Services (DYS) Northeast Regional Youth Service Center. He talks about what it’s like working at a juvenile justice center that seeks to help detained and committed youth receive the education they need to get their life back on track.
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Can GMOs Honor God? Dr. Ming Zheng’s Research in Biotechnology
Dr. Ming Zheng, professor of biology, spent his recent sabbatical in research labs exploring how to make immature corn pollen systems reproduce more quickly—which will ultimately help people get the food they need faster.
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Female Leadership in Engineering: Jane Eisenhauer ’09 at Raytheon
Jane Eisenhauer ’09 spent her entire career at Raytheon Technologies, a major U.S. defense contractor company. We sat down to ask her about her role as a systems engineer and what it’s like working as a woman in Raytheon engineering.
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Fighting Food Insecurity: How B. J. Osuagwu ’20 Is Leading Change at Healthy Waltham
Chukwuemeka “B. J.” Osuagwu ’20 is now the executive director of Healthy Waltham. We sat down with him to learn more about his role and the fight against food insecurity.
The Biologist and the Beekeeper
For years, Dr. Craig Story (biology) listened to requests from students interested in having a bee hive to study apiculture, or beekeeping. Now for the first time, Gordon has its own hive and a new student club, the Gordon College Beekeeping Association (GCBA).
Business Strategies and Savvy Finances: An Internship in Hong Kong
Preparing to study abroad requires entering the mindset that your experience will be both challenging and rewarding. After all, the wave of excitement and culture shock is likely to hit. But what happens when you intern abroad?
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Reinventing Shakespearean Performance
In the heart of the Jewish Ghetto in Venice, Italy, Karin Coonrod ’75 directed “The Merchant of Venice,” followed by a mock trial for the play’s main character held by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Education Research Enhances Math Teaching
This summer, several student-faculty teams spent time tackling research projects in the arts and sciences—from asthma to accounting audits, bilingualism and women in leadership. Some were funded through the Provost’s Summer Research Fellowships, and others were individual projects…. Read More
Seeing Cleveland through an Intern’s Eyes
“Before heading into my second year at Gordon, I wanted to get a good look into the medical world (specifically the hospital environment) to confirm that studying biology was, in fact, the right thing for me.”