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5 Influential Women Who Shaped Gordon College
In honor of Women’s History Month, we are sharing 5 influential women who shaped Gordon College.
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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.
Horns and Feathers: The Experience of Undergraduate Research
Kinesiology professor and French horn player Dr. Peter Iltis hails from a long line of talented musicians. When a movement disorder diagnosis threatened to curtail his playing, he set out to learn all he could. Now he is… Read More
Gravitational Waves and a Gordon Student
“Physics major Rebecca Li ’17 played a part in this awesome verification of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which predicted the existence of these waves 100 years ago,” writes Dr. David Lee, chair of Gordon’s Physics Department.
Hunkering Down and Venturing Out on Snow Days
When two back-to-back snow storms roll through, Gordon students take advantage of the campus shut-down. On the docket were cross-country skiing, blanket fort building, sledding, snowball fights on the quad, and, of course, catching up on homework with… Read More
English and Adventure on the Open Road
When she’s not teaching American Romantic Literature and other English courses, you can find Dr. Andrea Frankwitz feeding her insatiable sense of adventure on road trips all around the country.
Bryce Bachelder ’10: 16,000 Stories Shared in Worship
“What’s it like to play music in the Edward Jones Dome in front of 16,000 people? I mean, that’s just not a normal thing that happens in life, let alone to a kid from backwoods Vermont,” says Bryce Bachelder ’10, who was selected to be part of the highly competitive Urbana 2015 worship team.