Determination and Integration: Fighting HIV in South Africa

“The ultimate purpose is finding a vaccine for HIV,” Tatenda Makoni ’17 says of the research project to which she’s contributing this summer at the Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine in Zimbabwe.
Making Strides in Medical Research, One Step at a Time

Verna Curfman ’17 and John Yoon ’14 were recently recognized for their research in the labs of Duke University, with their names appearing in an article published by The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.
FOND Bone Broth: A Modern Family Business

Sisters Alysa (Obert) Seeland ’11 and Anna Obert ’16 are proving that family businesses are not something of the past; their new company, FOND Bone Broth, has found success in a hungry market.
Julie Korn ’02: Art and Play in Niger
CURE Niger, a children’s hospital in Africa where Josh ’05 and Julie ’02 Korn serve, has a new playground for patients, funded in part by the sales of final artwork by students in the Gordon IN Orvieto program.
Alumni in the Peace Corps: Building Cultural Bridges in Nicaragua

While studying at Gordon, Anna Jonker ’14 was met with a life-changing opportunity that began when she met a Peace Corps representative at a career fair and received a nudge of encouragement from Dr. Dorothy Boorse (biology).