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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.
Cheng Qian ’14: Fostering Social and Emotional Health Among Chinese Youth
“Taking families out of their normal environment and away from social pressures helps build community and introspection. And being in nature contributes so much to their development.” Cheng Qian ’14 discusses her new organization that seeks to foster emotional health through outdoor learning.
Awakening Stories: Wake, Sleeper by Bryan Parys ’04
A teen quietly hoping to miss church and sleep in. A Gordon student wandering in the woods in search of God’s presence. And now, a published author. Bryan Parys ’04’s new spiritual memoir, Wake, Sleeper (Cascade Books, 2015),… Read More
How to be Theologically Funny: Stanley Hauerwas Delivers Annual Malcolm Reid Lecture
At 90 years old, barren Sarah laughed at God’s promise of a child. While the events of our lives do not surprise God, they never fail to keep us on our feet, in fear, in awe and in… Read More
T.S. Eliot at Ground Zero: Professor Bruce Herman and Colleagues Take QU4RTETS to Hiroshima
Now in Hiroshima: QU4RTETS, a traveling exhibition featuring paintings by Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, an original piano and string quartet composition by Christopher Theofanidis, and theological reflections by Duke professor and pianist Jeremy Begbie. Hiroshima was the first city in history to be… Read More
Remembering Bruce Webb, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business
Bruce Webb, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business at Gordon, died early Monday morning at his home, of cancer. Prof. Webb, who came to Gordon in 1977, received his B.A. and M.A. from Northeastern University, and his Ph.D. from… Read More