Military and Veteran Stories

With the increased mental and behavioral stresses placed on school personnel, students and teachers by COVID-19, it was serendipitous that Gonzaga was ready to equip Ed.S. candidates with tools to deal with the pandemic's aftermath.

GU's Foley Library and the School of Nursing and Human Physiology are teaming up to work towards addressing food insecurity and health literacy in the Logan neighborhood.

Gonzaga University's Cara Smith found a better way to teach suturing to graduate nurse practitioner students and suture removal to undergrad BSNs.

SPOKANE, Wash. - Some sixth-graders in Spokane may change the beverages they consume thanks to a science experiment they conducted with the help of Gonzaga University students.

In fall 2021, Fernando Ortiz, Ph.D., director of Psychological Services, said his team was experiencing a peak at Gonzaga - both in terms of the numbers of students accessing services and the complex presentations of symptoms. He believes this reflects both the increased anxiety of students and their acknowledgement that they need professional guidance and support.

Professors respond to this question: In what ways has your academic study informed or impacted what - or how - you eat?

In July of 2021, a group of students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends set out to summit Mount Adams. What resulted was an alpine practice in effective leadership, group communication, and grit. Alan Westfield, a member of the climbing crew as a School of Leadership Studies Alum and Advisory Board Member, as well as a Veteran and Professor of Military Science, reflects on the experience and how it impacted his views on leadership.

Gonzaga University's COVID-19 compliance officer is featured in the latest installment of a state Department of Health video series whose purpose is to help overcome vaccine hesitancy.

Gonzaga University today published the report and recommendations from its Commission on University Response to the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis. This work is a manifestation of Gonzaga's Jesuit, Catholic, and humanistic mission and embodies the second Universal Apostolic Preference of the Society of Jesus: "To walk with the poor, the outcasts of the world, those whose dignity has been violated, in a mission of reconciliation and justice."

Gonzaga University President Thayne McCulloh, D. Phil., announced today the University will require all campus-based undergraduate, graduate, and law students to submit proof of full COVID-19 vaccination (along with other required vaccines) to participate in in-person, campus-based programs and activities - and to be eligible to study abroad - beginning fall semester 2021.

Chair Charlita Shelton and her nine committees of Gonzaga's Pandemic Response Task Force are certainly looking at this endeavor as the Final Chapter as they create a strategic plan for a full re-opening of campus and classes in the fall, as requested by President Thayne McCulloh.

Free COVID-19 vaccine appointments will be available for all Inland Northwest community members ages 16 and older at weekly community vaccine clinics on Gonzaga's campus beginning Thursday, April 22.

On March 23 and 24, State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Gonzaga University School of Law will convene a symposium to discuss environmental justice issues around Washington and the work being done to address them.

Gonzaga University is serving the Spokane community during the COVID-19 pandemic by accepting an invitation by CHAS Health to use the Martin Centre Fieldhouse to safely, effectively and efficiently distribute vaccine to its patients.

Angela Bruns, Ph.D., assistant professor of sociology and criminology at Gonzaga, is the co-principal investigator of a $600,723 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study how exposure to gun violence impacts the well-being of adolescents.