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Jul 17 2013

Megan, Luke and Dan are volunteering in Tarma, the “Pearl of the Andes.”  Also known as the City of Flowers, Tarma is situated in a protected valley on the eastern flank of the highest mountains in the western hemisphere.  The...

Jul 17 2013

Lois Mary Gunden Clemens, a 1936 Goshen College graduate and a French professor at the college from 1939-1941 and 1944-1958, was recently honored as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the…

Jul 16 2013

Ten rising middle schoolers from the Goshen area are blending a love of sports with a love of journalism by participating in Goshen College’s Write on Sports camp from July 8-19, 2013.

Jul 16 2013

Mary Roth, a 2013 Goshen College graduate with an English writing major, was chosen as the 2013 Luci Shaw Fellow at Image, a quarterly journal of faith, literature and the arts located in Seattle, Wash.

Jul 15 2013

  On Sunday five members of the group participated with several hundred others in a race from Managua to the city of Masaya, 20 miles southeast of the capital.  The race commemorates a 1979 nighttime trek of several thousand Nicaraguans...

Jul 15 2013

Becky is working in Managua at the Centro Cultural Batahola, a community center that offers a wide variety of educational and cultural programs for low-income families in the surrounding neighborhoods. When Doug visited Becky on Thursday she was working in...

Jul 14 2013

Emily volunteers at a Christian primary school perched on a hillside far above the city of Huamanga.  The neighborhood of Cuchipampa, “Hog Flats” in the local dialect of Quechua, was recently settled by migrants from the countryside of Ayacucho.  Most...

Jul 14 2013

These two students are doing their service assignments in this Caribbean coast community that the group had visited back in mid-May.  Bobby is working at the health center, and Yuriy works at the local school and also assists a local...

Jul 13 2013

Kelly, Nikita and Mary are volunteering in the bustling capital of Ayacucho departmento (state).  San Juan de la Frontera de Huamanga, or simply Huamanga, is home to 170,000 people.  The city lies in a protected valley some 2,746 meters (9,009...

Jul 13 2013

Robert is working outside Diriamba at Gaia Estates, a 90-acre organic coffee farm that is also one of only three places in Nicaragua that is certified as “Bird Friendly” by the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center.  One hundred-forty-three bird species, 45...

Jul 13 2013

Maria visited these four students who work at separate locations but within about one hour of each other. Elise works outside Matagalpa city at the nutritional clinic that the whole SST group had visited at the end of May.  In...

Jul 11 2013

Six books were published through the Goshen College English Department’s Pinchpenny Press in 2013, four of which were authored by individual students and two of which were collections of student work.

Jul 09 2013

  Maria visited Haley in Leon, the second largest city in Nicaragua (population 180,000).  Culturally, Leon is famous as the intellectual center of Nicaragua.  Climatically, however, it is unfortunately also famous as the hottest city in the country. In the...

Jul 08 2013

Doug, Maria and their son Josh visited Benson and Olivia last Sunday and Monday.  Public transport took us almost all the way to San Onofre, but from the highway a person on foot has a steep, 30-minute climb up a...

Jul 08 2013

Kate Stoltzfus, a Goshen College junior English writing and journalism double major, was selected by the Hoosier State Press Association as one of 10 Eugene S. Pulliam interns for this summer.

Jul 07 2013

Stephen, Michael and Anna are teaching in schools in a humble sector of the capital of the Departamento de Ayacucho (Ayacucho state).  The district of San Juan Bautista, named after John the Baptist, is situated on the southeast side of...

Jul 03 2013

Hannah and Kendall are serving in the city of Huanta:  Population = 84,000, Elevation = 2,624 meters (8,609 feet) above sea level.  The valley where Huanta is situated is unusually green, featuring a wide variety of vegetation and earning it...

Jul 03 2013

On June 29-30 Maria S, Doug and their son Josh visited Maria J in Candelaria, a small rural community of several dozen houses about 40 miles northeast of Jinotepe.  What makes Candelaria’s location really distinct, however, is that it is...

Jul 03 2013

2010 Art alum, Noah Yoder, designed and supervised painting of a mural in the train underpass.

Jul 02 2013

From July 22-26, Indiana’s 31 private, non-profit colleges and universities across the state – including Goshen College – are opening their doors to students, parents and any others interested in the college selection process.

Jul 01 2013

Awards, senior events, publishing, faculty updates, alumni news and much more in the new Spring 2013 Newsletter.

Jul 01 2013

Weeks just fly by! So much has happened since the last blog. We finished the first half of the program and we have started with the second pair of classes: Agroecology and Small Farm Management. Unfortunately, that also meant we...

Jul 01 2013

As we approach the final week of the summer intensive, the season of transition has been accompanied by a whirlwind of activities: field trips, harvesting produce, visits from friends, writing papers, and impending goodbyes. Meanwhile, the Rieth Village landscape has...

Jun 29 2013

Josh works at the Mombacho National Park that all the students had visited together in May.  The park was noticeably much busier now – it is the ‘high season’ due to summer vacations in the U.S. – and about 200...