Excellence in Teaching Professors

"Servant-Leadership and Forgiveness: How Leaders Help Heal the Heart of the World," published this month by the State University of New York Press (SUNYPress), reflects the depth of scholarly work of the Gonzaga University School of Leadership Studies' faculty and alumni.

Raven Maragh-Lloyd, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication studies at Gonzaga University, is part of a unique research project examining how and why some people adopt extreme political and cultural views through their use of social media, and what might be done to identify, predict, and prevent that behavior.

A fourth-year student at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Xun has taken this year off to co-found a biotech startup that is using 3D printing technologies to rapidly prototype medical devices for the possible treatment victims of COVID-19.

Todd Finkle, though technically a professor in the School of Business, believes entrepreneurship is a separate field entirely, and the most important one at that.

Chase Ronderos, who earned a Master's of Science in Taxation (MSTax) degree from GU in 2019 and a bachelor's in accounting in 2018, is among 137 winners of the prestigious 2019 Elijah Watt Sells Award from the American Institute of CPAs.

Gonzaga affirmed the connection between creativity and problem-solving when it unveiled the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center last April. The facility and GU faculty have become a magnet for talented arts students such as Xander Claypool.

Students in Professor Mat Rude's Ceramics course are getting an introduction to clay through an unlikely medium: dough.

As Gonzaga undergraduates approach final exams during this unprecedented time of dislocation and disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, faculty reflect on insights and lessons learned following the mid-semester shift to remote learning.

Yolanda Gallardo, remembers that her family had little, but the families of the children her father taught had even less.

History students are now visiting reconstructions of ancient cities such as Olympia and Athens using virtual reality technology in the classroom.

Joe Johnston, assistant professor of sociology and criminology, recently published a research study about a program in multiple Spokane elementary schools, in which college students volunteer to walk children from their homes to school.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Gonzaga's Graduate Accounting program the 25th best (tie) in the nation and GU's Part-Time MBA program No. 55 (tie) in nation.

I was a bit trepidatious about my week-long immersion at the Mexico border with the Ignatian Colleagues Program. But now that I have gone and come back, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

In a panel hosted by the School of Engineering & Applied Science, STEM professors Betsy Bancroft, Allison Lambert, Lex Gidley and Kate Kearney answered questions about their research, their careers and gender relations in their fields.

Gonzaga's newest Classical Civilizations professor uses what she learns in the classroom when she's officiating at the top level of college football.