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May 08 2021

Ben Troyer is a Psychology major and senior from Kidron, Ohio.  He writes about our visit with an indigenous elder at Chain O Lakes State Park: After waking up in our campsite at Chain’ O Lakes and having a little...

May 07 2021

Aaron Lambert is a senior Accounting major from New Palestine, Indiana.  In this , Aaron recounts our first camping trip of the term: We arrived at the Chain O’Lakes State campground on a May afternoon with the slight April chills...

May 07 2021

May 07 2021

After a couple days of very little schedule, there was a shock factor on Monday as we all realized how tightly scheduled our days would be with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). The schedule each day with MDS is identical: wake...

May 07 2021

After our 17 hour drive we settled in for our first couple days of learning. On Friday, we took a trip to Marianna — the city we would be spending our two weeks with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). We spent...

May 07 2021

Thursday May 6, 2021 Today’s lecture was about sponges, mainly focusing on Spheciospongia vesparium (loggerhead sponge) and Ircinia campera (vase sponge). Our morning visit was to the hard bottom sponge site. This habitat consisted of little soft sediment/sand with different...

May 07 2021

Wednesday May 5, 2021 Wednesday morning started like the others sunny and bright. Today’s morning lecture greeted us with the challenge of creating the complex food web of the epipelagic zone only using a brief outline and an article we...

May 06 2021

Harrison Gingerich, a senior from Canby, Oregon, is a Sustainable Food Systems major.  In this post, he recounts key parts of a Zoom presentation by one of our indigenous speakers: Scott Shoemaker is a member of the Miami, a group...

May 05 2021

Mackenzie Miller, who graduates from Goshen College this spring with majors in journalism and English, received the Indianapolis Press Club Foundation scholarship for deadline news coverage.

May 05 2021

Jan Bender Shetler, director of global engagement, received a grant this month from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Goshen College-led collaboration with Michigan State University (MSU) to digitize an oral history collection from the Mara region of…

May 05 2021

Six Indiana college presidents, including Goshen's Rebecca Stoltzfus, have been meeting weekly via Zoom, and serving as a touchstone as they lived through — and responded to — history.

May 05 2021

Tuesday May 4, 2021 On Tuesday morning, the sun was shining and the temperature was 81 degrees. In our first class of the day we discussed seagrass ecology and biology, as well as the benefits and threats to the seagrass...

May 04 2021

Monday, May 3, 2021 – The Bight The day began with a brief discussion on our observations and thoughts from our first snorkeling session on Sunday. Out of this conversation came the realization for the group that while there is...

May 03 2021

Ben Zimmerman is the author of today’s blog post.  Ben is a senior Sustainability Management major from Archbold, Ohio. May has finally arrived as spring is in full bloom here in Goshen. We started the week off with a leisurely...

May 03 2021

Sunday May 2, 2021 The Marine Biology class of 9 students has arrived and 0ur course has begun! Given the challenges over the last year, it has been a long wait for our students. Last May in 2020, their trip...

Apr 30 2021

Today’s post is written by Naomi Willis, a senior nursing major from Mishawaka, Indiana: We were honored to have a guest speaker, Rich Meyer, give our Indigenous Economies class some insight on the Potawatomi tribe and their land. Before we...

Apr 30 2021

Today’s post is written by Haylee Pennington, a junior nursing major from Wakarusa, Indiana: Serviceberries, from the local native Amelanchier arborea, have many varieties which are all edible and insanely delicious. We were able to visit the Reith Interpretive Center...

Apr 29 2021

Our first day of the May Term was spent outdoors, hiking along the Elkhart River for several miles, learning about a plant called the Serviceberry with the director of Environmental Resilience in the city of Goshen, and wondering aloud what...

Apr 28 2021

In this course, students work with Mennonite Disaster Service to help a community in Florida rebuild after Hurricane Michael and reflect on ways to respond that are ethical, sustainable and respectful. They also carry out a community based research project…

Apr 28 2021

Photos from around campus in April 2021.                                           Photos from around campus in April 2021.

Apr 27 2021

We’re trying something new this year,  a Cultural Perspectives course based on the Goshen College campus with the bulk of our time spent outdoors.  We’ve planned a series of day trips, experiential learning opportunities and overnight camping adventures, with a...

Apr 26 2021

The Indiana Collegiate Press Association (ICPA) named Goshen College's student newspaper, The Record, “Newspaper of the Year” for the fourth consecutive time in the college division, more than 20 Goshen College students collecting 42 awards.

Apr 26 2021

The Indiana Association of School Broadcasters (IASB) named 91.1 FM The Globe (WGCS) “Radio School of the Year” for the third consecutive time in the college division, with a flurry of awards in ten of 13 categories. 

Apr 25 2021

Members of the Goshen College Class of 2021 received undergraduate and graduate degrees during a hybrid in-person and virtual ceremony at the college’s 123rd commencement on Sunday, April 25.