La Concepción, known among locals as “La Concha,” is a town about halfway between Jinotepe and Managua, but it feels more rural than Jinotepe. Ali and Emily work here at a new health center known in town as “El Hospitalito”...
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La Concepción – Ali and Emily
2013 Senior Exhibit II
Senior Juan Carlos Diaz Quezada is exhibiting work, along with Abbie Miller, Ben Adams, Daniel Buschert, and Sara Soto
Masatepe – Caleb and Jordan
Caleb and Jordan are both living and working in Masatepe, a town about half the size of Jinotepe Maria visited them on Wednesday. Caleb is working at the local health clinic, and the day Maria visited he was heading off...
Women’s Programming Camp
Sarah Rody is running an intro to programming camp for women ages 14-18. The camp will take place from July 22nd to the 24th. To register, please email Sarah at sarahgr@goshen.edu.
Laguna de Apoyo – Aaron B
Several weeks ago all the students saw the Laguna de Apoyo, a 3-mile diameter lake in the hole left by a volcano that blew its top off in a violent explosion more than a million years ago. Aaron is...
Service in Chiclayo
Whitney and Justin are volunteering at a special needs hospital on the northern coast of Peru. Hogar Clinica Juan de Dios offers medical treatment, physical therapy and educational programs to children diagnosed with cerebral palsy and other physical disabilities. The...
Goshen College train underpass to get a splash of color
A mural designed by 2010 alum Noah Yoder will be painted onto the walls and ceiling of the pedestrian underpass this week.
15 Goshen College students participate in summer Inquiry Programs
Fifteen Goshen College students are participating in the Camping, Ministry and Service Inquiry Programs during the summer. The Inquiry programs give GC students the opportunity to spend three months in a camp, congregation or service agency with the goal of…
22 students research alongside professors during summer
Twenty-two Goshen College students are spending their summer working with professors on various research projects during the college’s eight-week Maple Scholars program.
Senior seminar presentations
Six senior physical education majors present research projects
Graduate Projects from 2012 – 2013
HORTICULTURE AS A PATHWAY FOR INVASIVE SPECIES AND THE ROLE OF THE RETAIL GARDEN CENTER IN PROMOTING NATIVE PLANTS – Miranda Davies Throughout history and now at an unprecedented rate, human mediated changes make some species more rare, even causing...
Children's Literature Author's Open House
Each class member in the Children's and Adolescent Literature class writes a book. At the end of the course we celebrate with an open house for the whole campus.
Goodbyes — and Hellos
The study portion of the Peru Study Service Term came to a close with a despedida (farewell party) for the Lima host families, language instructors and coordinators. The students sang a couple of songs, performed a skit comparing the life...
Despedida
An SST tradition is to have, the last night before students leave for their service assignments, a farewell (despedida) party with their host families and language teachers. During their last Spanish classes before the event the students had practiced several...
Learning
Learning comes in many forms. Lectures by Nestor Vergara, Jerry Acosta, Maria Lopez and Father Jeff Klaiber taught us much about living conditions at the edge of Lima, life in Peru during the time of terrorism and the Catholic Church...
New Goshen College business team wins regional and national “Rookie of the Year” awards
A group of eight students formed a team through the international non-profit organization Enactus.
From the classroom to the colonies, students gain a new perspective on Anabaptism in Paraguay
During May term, Goshen College Professor of History John D. Roth led 17 students in an exploration of the different Anabaptist cultures of Paraguay. The class trekked from the capital city of Asunción to Mennonite colonies in the Gran Chaco…
Off to Service
On Friday the students left for their service assignments. Since then we’ve received word that they are all with their service host family now. Their placements are as indicated on the map, and the work assignments are as follows: Aaron...
Weeds Quizzes and a Soils Tour
Weeks 3 and 4 of ASI have really flown by. The three of us have really grown closer to each other and have likewise gotten to know Dale and Jon quite well. Each morning we start out with a good...
The Bliss of Ignorance
In their journals last week several students wrote about the impact of the visits in Esteli and El Lagartillo. Below is an entry from Bobby’s journal. The more time I spend in Nicaragua and learn about its culture and history,...
Miscellanea
From shortly before our field trip to Matagalpa and in the following days we have a number of smaller events to share. At our twice weekly Coyunturas we realized that during our lunch on the back porch we were getting...
Brianne Donaldson (2005)
Brianne Donaldson (2005 grad) has been appointed the director of the Sikh and Jain Studies Centers at Claremont Lincoln University. Brianne completed her Ph.D. at Claremont in process studies.
Downtown
Lima, Peru’s bustling capital, was founded in 1535 by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. He intended to establish a capital accessible to Spanish ships, a place to export the gold and silver he found here as well as bring more Europeans...
Science Olympiad 2013
Science Olympiad Chem Lab Event
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