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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter named Daniel Cantu-Hertzler '77 of the city's Law Department the winner of the inaugural Inspector General's Joan Markman Award for Integrity.
Professor Emeritus of Art Marvin Bartel’s approach to teaching and learning has helped set a foundation for the massive outgrowth of ceramic artists in the Michiana area – many of whom are Goshen College alumni. Many artists have stayed in Goshen, making it a popular destination for those interested in starting their own pottery businesses.
"If there's anything we should have learned since 9/11 and the "War on Terror," it is that violence against the Muslim world cannot defeat terrorism or anti-Western anger; only respect for human rights and sovereignty will work."
Kelly Shenk Koontz '08 is a second year MBA student at Boston University in the Public & Nonprofit Management program. Before attending BU, Kelly worked with Mennonite Central Committee in Kabul, Afghanistan doing peacebuilding work.
Brad Graber '08 and his wife, Brenna Steury Graber, were at the French national soccer game in the Stade de France where three suicide bombers reportedly tried to enter and detonated their explosives outside the stadium.
The Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) announced this week the selection of Shari Wagner, a 1980 Goshen College graduate, as the new Indiana State Poet Laureate.
Rebecca Stoltzfus, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell University, directs the Global Health Program, which offers field experiences in support of an undergraduate minor and a new major, tackles global health problems from a multidisciplinary approach, and engages new researchers and practitioners to address health problems that transcend national boundaries and disproportionately affect the resource-poor.
Monroe Weber-Shirk, senior lecturer of civil and environmental engineering and director of AguaClara, runs the program under the motto "research, invent, design, engage," and says student teams do lab research on specifics of the technology, learn the cutting-edge engineering involved with building the treatment plants in his theory course, and are invited to travel to Honduras to see, firsthand, their engineering in context.
Brutality has become a guest that has overstayed its welcome, except it should never have been invited to the table.
GC professor of history Steve Nolt '90 was appointment as Senior Scholar at Elizabethtown College’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
