Military and Veteran Stories

Reisha Abolofia (Gonzaga School of Law '14) discusses how her initial interest in law, sparked from participating in jury duty, led her to graduating from Gonzaga University's School of Law and become the director of Disability Rights Washington's Rights Investigation and Accountability Program.

Senior biology student Emiliano Soto-Romero ('23) and Assistant Professor of Biology Laura Diaz-Martinez both attended this fall's National Diversity in STEM Conference (NDiSTEM) in Puerto Rico, presenting findings learned in their lab work at Gonzaga.

This fall, three Gonzaga alums all working for Seattle consulting firm West Monroe returned to campus to recruit more Zags at the career and internship fair.

Retired Brigadier General Jack Nevin, who earned his M.B.A. and Juris Doctor degrees from Gonzaga in 1978, says he is retired. But his wife Cheryl French Nevin, a retired physical therapist, disagrees, stating flatly, "Jack flunked retirement."

A conversation with former Bulldog Battalion cadet and current CEO of the Pat Tillman Foundation Dan Futrell ('05) and current GU School of Law student and Tillman Scholar Jennifer Scanlon

While much of the Inland Northwest was buried in the season's first snow and its residents scrambled to prepare for an early winter, Gonzaga University's ROTC Bulldog Battalion was embracing the elements in competition with peers from across the West in the Task Force East Ranger Challenge Competition.

A National Science Foundation grant will allow Gonzaga physicist Erik Aver and GU students to use the Large Binocular Telescope to research how much helium was produced right after the Big Bang.

Dean Jacob Rooksby has been leading Gonzaga's law school since arriving in Spokane in 2018, but his role took on a new gravity this semester as the dean role officially became an endowed position named in honor of Gonzaga legal legend Smithmoore P. Myers.

Mike Doyle ('01) and his wife Amanda (Gerding '01) are a pair of U.S. Army lieutenant colonels, raising four children, ages 3-10.

Here is the story of U.S. Army Company Commander Brian Slamkowski.

The ideas in the book utilize the scholarly work of many members of Gonzaga University's School of Leadership Studies faculty, alumni, and students.

Nearly 70 years of Zag alumni came home for the reunion weekend including more than 20 alumni events on campus and around Spokane.

When Ray Angle and his team dive into researching the statistics that help make up Gonzaga's annual First Destination Survey Report few stones go unturned.

Denial just means "not yet." Of the many lessons imparted by Olga Custodio, the 2023 Presidential Speaker Series guest, those five words might hold the biggest lesson she learned in a life full of overcoming barriers.

Ryan Kellogg ('14) spent seven years working on rocket propulsion systems for SpaceX, and back at Gonzaga as academic director for the Center for Engineering Design and Entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.