Military and Veteran Stories

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.

Justice David Wecht of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will give the annual William O. Douglas lecture. His lecture will examine Kennedy vs. Bremerton among other cases that involve religious free speech.

When Jennifer Towers, assistant dean in GU's School of Nursing and Human Physiology, heard that some of the children at Gonzaga Family Haven might have to forgo participating in sports because they couldn't get health clearance by a primary care provider, she considered all the benefits they'd be missing. Exercise and physical fitness were top of the list, of course.

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.

Charlene Teters (Spokane) curates a show featuring 17 local Indigenous artists, open Nov. 4-Dec. 3.

Gonzaga University's Center for Global Engagement (CGE) is hosting a variety of events to celebrate International Education Week (IEW) 2022, held Nov. 14 - 18. IEW is a joint initiative between the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education, held annually during the week before Thanksgiving.

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.

Three more students earned high-powered rocketry certifications at a Tri Cities launch.

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

The head of the Radio Frequency (RF) Communications and Sensing Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame discussed RF polarization dispersion and more recent applications of this developing technology.

The Utah-based dance group will perform alongside the Gonzaga University Repertory Dance Company.

Mae Cramer ('24), a political science major and gender studies minor, recently received the Voyager scholarship from the Obama Foundation with the help of Airbnb CEO, Brian Chesky.

Legendary group the Blind Boys of Alabama are coming to the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center for a show featuring the innovative gospel and blues group from the South that has delivered more than eight decades of stunning vocal performances.

How the "Americans and the Holocaust" traveling exhibit this fall brought a tragic time in history into a different light.

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