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Culture for Service awardee. In his relatively young career, David Bartel has changed the way researchers think about genetics and how life began, through his findings on ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules. Bartel’s research at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, which is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),…
During Goshen College's Homecoming Weekend 2006 on Oct. 6-8 the college will honor six exceptional alumni with awards for lives and dedication to service that has inspired others. Three will receive Culture For Service Awards, named for the college's motto. The college will honor one recent alumna with its Decade of Servant Leadership Award, which recognizes young alumni who are making significant contributions to their communities, church and world. And for the first time, the Goshen College Maple Leafs Athletic Club is presenting the Dr. Ruth Gunden and the Dr. Roman Gingerich Champion of Character Awards.
As Goshen College alumni and Indiana natives Greg Stahly and Liz Nofziger return to their alma mater and show their sculptures and installation art this month, they intend for their work to ask interesting and important questions. Stahly's sculptures ask: What is the effect of the perpetual progress that we have come to expect from our society and the systems we have created? Nofziger's video installation titled "Precious" asks: What is precious and innocent?
Awarded by the Goshen College Alumni Board, the 2005 Culture for Service Award will be presented to 1955 graduate Hans J. Hillerbrand, published scholar and religion professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and 1968 graduate Ramzi Farran and 1969 graduate Carol Farran, a high school chemistry teacher and nurse researcher, respectively, from Oak Park, Ill. Justin Rothshank, a Goshen native and 2000 graduate who now lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pa., will be the first recipient of the Decade of Servant Leadership Award.
The generosity of churches, alumni and friends to Goshen College continued to grow during the 2004-05 fiscal year, which ended June 30.
The Goshen College campus has changed a lot since Carrie Newcomer was a student in the early 1980s. But the sing-songwriter will find many fans in the area happy to welcome her back to her old stomping grounds to perform at Goshen College in a venue very different than the performance halls of her student days.
GOSHEN, Ind. – A highlight of Goshen College’s Homecoming Weekend is the awarding of the Culture for Service Award to exceptional alumni whose life and work has exemplified the college motto, “Culture for Service.” Awarded by the Goshen College Alumni Board, the 2004 honors will be presented to Pearl Hartz…
Culture for Service awardees honored at Goshen College Alumni Weekend 2003 GOSHEN, Ind. — Opening a weekend of Goshen College alumni returning to campus, reminiscing and reconnecting will be a celebration of four exceptional alumni: the 2003 Culture for Service awardees. Among the awardees are a surgeon, an artist, a…
While many Indiana college and university graduates take their diplomas and pursue employment opportunities in other states, contributing to the highly publicized "brain drain," Goshen College imports more human capital to Indiana than it exports, concludes a study conducted this year.
