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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.
Biology Major Researches Kidney Transplants at Duke University Lab
This summer, Verna Curfman ’17 (biology) joined forces with renowned scientist and transplant surgeon Dr. Stuart Knechtle of Duke University School of Medicine to understand why the human body sometimes rejects transplanted organs, despite desperately needing them. What… Read More
Toward Global Good—From Rwanda to Texas
One summer, 8,500 miles: Nathalia Moran ’18 finds the overlap between her Rwanda Seminar experience and a Texas-based nonprofit internship.
Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Leaving and Arriving
Bell writer Sierra Flach ’18 has traded her Road Hall at Gordon for the rolling hills of New Zealand, where she will be bringing the latest from her study abroad adventure in the last stop before Antarctica.
Surveying Streams and Wrangling Fish with the U.S. Forest Service
When Josh McLaughlin ’17 found himself face down in snorkel gear and a dry suit, plucking mussels from the bed of the John Day River in Oregon, he wasn’t simply taking a mud bath.
Gordon Team Boosts Fair Trade Business Expansion in India
Gordon students and alumna collaborate to expand operations for Anugra, a fair trade textile enterprise that helps women in India escape poverty.