The Goshen College Men's Volleyball team achieved its third-highest ranking in program history on Feb. 24, checking in at 15th in the NAIA men's volleyball coaches poll. The team has now been ranked in three consecutive national polls and received votes in four straight iterations of the rankings.
TaNiece Chapman became the 18th Goshen College women's basketball player to score 1,000 career points on Feb. 17 in a home game against Huntington University in the Ruth Gunden Gymnasium.
Goshen College sophomore Denisse Aguilar, a psychology and sociology major from Goshen, won the 2021 C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest on Feb. 16 with her speech titled “Living the American Dream on Borrowed Time.” Senior Mackenzie Miller took second place.
Three different albums recorded in Goshen College Music Center’s Sauder Concert Hall have recently received national acclaim. Will Liverman’s “Dreams of a New Day” (recorded in July 2020 at Goshen College) and Catalyst Quartet’s “Uncovered” (recorded in July 2020 at Goshen College) were recently featured in The New York Times, and the Dover Quartet’s “The Schumann Quartets” (recorded in February 2018 at Goshen College) was nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY Award.
A new partnership between Goshen College and Chatham University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) will provide a smooth path for Goshen College graduates who want to become physician assistants and to earn a Master of Physician Assistant Studies (MPAS) degree.
Goshen College’s student-run radio station, 91.1 FM (WGCS) The Globe has been nominated for Best Station in the Nation for the 11th consecutive year by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), along with 29 individual nominations, more than any other school in the competition.
Philip Metres, a poet, translator, scholar and Guggenheim Fellowship winner and author of "Shrapnel Maps," will present a virtual GC Talk, sponsored by the Yoder Public Affairs Lecture Series, titled "The Place Where Peace and Justice Meet in Palestine/Israel" on Tuesday, March 9 at 7 p.m.
Dayna Baxter, a 2018 graduate of Goshen College with a degree in social work, is behind a new program that will pair social workers with law enforcement to support victims of domestic violence in South Bend, Indiana.
Professor of English Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid, co-editors of "Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal," focus on the superhero Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan.
Goshen College has received a $40,000 NetVUE "Reframing the Institutional Saga" grant to examine and frame the college's history, identity and heritage in light of the present context of the GC's mission and vision.
