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Chemical Demonstrations in Goshen Theater
Goshen College Chemistry department performs demonstrations at First Friday event
Field Trip to Matagalpa and Esteli: Sunday, June 2.
A day in the campo starts with a cup of coffee and a piece of bread as early as the eastern sky begins to get light, which is at 5 a.m. In our different homes we watched families in their...
Professor of Bible and Religion Paul Keim: Global citizen who walks the walk and talks the talk
If intelligence is measured in the number of languages one speaks, bilingual and trilingual people are smart. But for Paul Keim, who speaks seven languages, a better word to describe him might be brilliant. Or intelligente. Or sprachbegabt.
Fred Litwiller, director emeritus of student services, died
Goshen College Director Emeritus of Student Services Fred Litwiller, who served the college for more than 35 years as a teacher, coach and counselor, died on June 6 after an 11-year battle with multiple myeloma, shortly before his 73rd birthday.
Field Trip to Matagalpa and Esteli: Saturday, June 1
Saturday was an emotionally intense day that saw tears as well as incredible inspiration. Our textbook on Nicaragua begins the history section with this quote: The history of Nicaragua is among the most turbulent and interesting in all of the...
Field Trip to Matagalpa and Esteli: Friday, May 31.
Last Friday we left on a 3-day field trip to mountainous north-central Nicaragua to learn about coffee, land, and other agricultural issues, as well as to hear firsthand from some local residents about their experiences in the two recent wars....
African indigenous art featured in Goshen College exhibit
The Goshen College Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery will be showcasing an exhibit titled “Indigenous Arts of Africa.” The exhibit runs from June 2 to Sept. 22, 2013.
Free Write on Sports summer camp accepting middle school applications
A two-week day camp called Write on Sports is accepting applications from students who will be entering seventh and eighth grades.
Convenient Christianity
Below is another student’s journal entry, this one from Elise. My family’s Christian faith has been evident to me since day one. They are very active members of their church, and they make spiritual disciplines an important part of each...
Life on the Coast
The students have spent the past week getting to know Lima. They have spent time with their new host families. They have learned how to travel by bus from their family’s home to Iglesia Buen Pastor (Good Shepherd Church) where...
Math Alumnus is Commencement Speaker
Matthew Schrock, 2003 graduate in mathematics education, was the Concord High School Class of 2013 Faculty Commencement speaker.
Juneberry Celebrations
Once again, June in northeast Indiana is upon us. Here at Merry Lea Sustainable Farm, life is abundant. Transplanted tomatoes are acclimatizing to their new outdoor homes just in time for the annual wave of crabgrass, volunteer buckwheat, and Colorado...
Fighting the ‘Difference Wall’
Below is a recent journal entry from Aaron reflecting, as did Caleb, on topics from our field trip to the Atlantic coast. Tomorrow our group leaves for a three-day field trip to northern Nicaragua, and we’ll be back with more...
What is my culture?
During SST students are required to keep a journal and submit three entries each week. This is a recent journal entry from Caleb, pictured in the photo on the left: As I walked to school today I had some...
ASL Luncheon
History professor’s new book documents Amish life, helps dispel myths
America’s enchantment with the Amish – in romance novels and on reality television – has left many wondering what Amish life is really like. A new book, co-written by Goshen College Professor of History Steve M. Nolt, looks to dispel…
Lima Families
Lima is a lively, bustling city of 9 million people. People come here from all over Peru in search of work, education, medical treatment or, simply, new opportunities. We arrived here several days ago from our three-week adventure in the...
Mombacho Cloud Forest and Colonial Granada
Friday was such a long day that we set a record for starting early. Everyone arrived at Quinta Goshen (our unit house) before 6 a.m. to leave for the entrance station for the Mombacho National Park. Mombacho is an extinct...
Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu means “old mountain” in Quechua. The greatest Inca ruler, Pachucutec, built this citadel atop a giant granite outcropping many years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532. Archaeologists believe that the city provided a place for the...
Sacred Valley
The Wilcamayu — Quechua for “Sacred River” — flows through one of the most beautiful and historic valleys of Peru. We began our five-day tour in central Cusco, capital of the Inca Realm that once extended from modern day Colombia...
Music, dance, and pottery
On Wednesday the students learned about different music genres heard in Nicaragua, including popular folkloric music from national composers. The presenter who played recordings of the different music types also brought a dance partner to demonstrate the fast-stepping, highly rhythmic...
Goshen College Music Center offers summer Music Together® classes in Goshen and Elkhart for young children
The Goshen College Community School of the Arts (CSA) is accepting registrations for Music Together® music and movement classes for young children from birth to age 5 and their families, to be held in June and July 2013.
Students present their research at regional conferences
Congratulations to all our students who presented their research at regional conferences during the spring of 2013!
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