The Department is pleased to welcome Dr. Kris Schmidt who will be teaching a variety of courses in physiology and developmental biology! Click the link above to learn more about Kris and his family.
Welcome to Dr. Kris Schmidt
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Welcome to Dr. Kris Schmidt
Environmental Science & Sustainability Open House – Sept 28th
Do you know a high school student who wants to study sustainability or environmental science? On Sept. 28 the Biology and Sustainability & Environmental Education Departments are hosting an all day open house. Click for more details on how to…
Women’s Studies in Costa Rica
Learn more about how Professor of English Beth Martin Birky has returned several times with students in recent years to Costa Rica to interview and collect the stories of women's organizations and businesses.
Process for new Martyrs Mirror begins
More than 35 people from seven countries gathered at Goshen College on August 5-8, for an international consultation on the theme, “Bearing Witness: A New Martyrs Mirror for the 21st Century?” Hosted by the college’s Institute for the Study of…
Campus Sounds of Summer
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Fourteen students research alongside professors during summer
Fourteen Goshen College students spent the summer working with professors on various research projects during the college’s eight-week Maple Scholars program in June and July.
Two students awarded theological fellowships
Two Goshen College students were awarded a 2012 Fund for Theological Education (FTE) Undergraduate Fellowship. Seniors Jeffrey Moore and Emily Hedrick received the fellowships to help fund their ministerial explorations.
Fall Lunch & Learn Schedule announced
The Center for Business and Entrepreneurial Education sponsors a lunch and learn series each fall for community administrative staff. Check out the line-up of topics and presenters for this year.
Individual tickets on sale Aug. 6 for the 2012-13 Performing Arts Series
Opportunities are available to secure individual tickets for all concerts in the Goshen College Performing Arts Series. Individual tickets go on sale Monday, Aug. 6 at 8 a.m., online at www.goshen.edu/tickets and at the recently relocated Goshen College Welcome Center…
Departure
On Monday morning we were greeted with a traditional Nicaraguan breakfast for the student’s last meal before heading to the airport – gallo pinto, eggs, chorizo, salsa, cheese, tortillas, fresh watermelon & pineapple, orange juice, and coffee. After loading all...
Final Retreat – Playa El Coco
On Friday morning students said a final goodbye to their host families and loaded all their luggage on the bus. There was a lot of conversation as students continued sharing their service experiences with each other. We started the 2½...
Final project presentations
On Thursday July 19, the 33rd anniversary of the end to the Somoza dictatorship, we met at Quinta Goshen after students had a few free hours with their host families. Due to the national holiday and the lack of public...
Departure
Several hours after returning from the retreat in Kauai, the students boarded a bus for the airport — their first leg of a long journey home. We will miss you!
Former Board Chair Virgil L. Miller remembered for his faith, generosity and servant leadership
Virgil L. Miller, chair of the Goshen College Board of Directors from 1999 to 2009, was remembered this week for his leadership and varied contributions to the college. Miller, 72, died July 19 at his home in Archbold, Ohio, surrounded…
Retreat
The students gathered for several days after returning from their service locations to present their research projects, reflect on their time in the provinces, spend time in worship and prepare for their return to the United States. Our retreat center,...
Ending ASI
The final week of the summer intensive has arrived! We were grateful for a quarter inch of rain on the last day of July, Tuesday, a day that also saw the arrival of 15 day-old chicks destined for our chicken...
Music Center offers fall music lessons, classes and ensembles for all ages
The Goshen College Community School of the Arts (CSA) is currently accepting registrations for the fall semester. The registration deadline for all private lessons is August 13, 2012. Lessons begin the week of August 20.
Service in Tarma
Tarma, the “Pearl of Andes,” is a city 60,000 people located in a valley between Lima and the central rain forest. Only an hour and a half from San Ramon, the city is a principal access point to the eastern...
Service in Chanchamayo
Chanchamayo is a beautiful province nestled on the wet, green side of the Amazon Mountains. San Ramon is located here; so too is its sister city, La Merced. The area was home to Ashaninka natives before the arrival of Europeans,...
Back in Carazo
All students arrived safely back from their service locations yesterday. The day was filled with lots of laughter and story telling. Students enjoyed a pizza lunch with fresh dragonfruit drink. All students spent the night with their Jinotepe, Dolores, and...
Service in San Ramon
San Ramon, a city of 30,000 inhabitants, is the gateway to Peru’s Selva Central (Central Rain Forest). Nestled in the foothills of the Andes Mountains at 770 meters (2,526 feet) above sea level, the days are warm, the nights are...
Merry Lea to host nature poetry reading
Poet and wetland ecologist Dr. Mary Linton has spent a lifetime steeped in the natural world. She’s gone from Midwestern farm girl to scientist, but she’s always believed that a day mucking about a fertile wetland could not be better…
A Week in July: Insects, Guest Speakers, and Agroecology at Merry Lea
Week seven of the ASI dawned warm and dry, the trademark of this summer. We attended to some of the familiar herbivores of our cucurbits, the infamous squash bug (Anasa tristis), finding and removing egg masses from crop leaves and...
Service in Oxapampa
Oxapampa is a charming city of 10,000 inhabitants situated in a broad river valley in the upper rain forest. The town was founded by Austrian immigrants in the middle of the 19th century. Life in central Europe was difficult at...
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