Alumni News

MSN-NLH alumna discusses how the program helped find her passion for nursing policy.

Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Alan Westfield, Ph.D., is often the first point of contact for prospective ROTC cadets and a lifelong connection after graduation and commissioning. Learn more about how Military Zags are keeping connected in this ROTC 75th anniversary year.

Stress is stopping students from enrolling in and staying in college. According to a recent survey of over 12,000 adults in the U.S., 63% of those 18 to 24 who had never attended college said emotional stress is one of the biggest reasons why they are not currently enrolled.

Zia will share stories from her lifetime of activism, sustaining social movements for the long term, and challenging the model-minority myth in a presentation titled "Building Stronger Communities Through Sustained Activism."

Renowned author Madeline Miller worked with GU students to update Plato's "Symposium" for this year's Ancient Philosophy Society Conference.

School of Business Administration students are showcasing outstanding performances at business competitions across the nation.

Jackson Swets ('25), a mechanical engineering major, has received the E. Richard Booser Scholarship from the international professional society for tribology.

A novel partnership involving Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society and the Environment and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) confirms that, in Spokane, summer heat events disproportionately impact low-income, more racially diverse neighborhoods.

A conversation with Charlene Teters, keynote speaker at this year's International Conference on Hate Studies, on her years fighting racist imagery of Indigenous peoples in pop culture and media.

Gonzaga and the Community Colleges of Spokane are teaming to present the 7th International Conference on Hates Studies as scholars from around the globe gather in Spokane to address the "challenges of hate in the 21st century."

Instructional Design & Delivery strives to incorporate gamification into course building practices when collaborating with faculty and academic departments in building all courses, content, and online programs. In order to truly achieve this, we felt that all current and new IDD staff needed to be provided with opportunities for real game-play experience that they may then translate into their course building projects. This idea became the ID&D podcast series! This is a vlog featuring the IDD team, playing Dungeons & Dragons as a group (as characters that they created themselves!), and then translating their experience during each session into real-life course building ideas and pedagogical practice for the online classroom. Enjoy!

Maureen McGuire retires April 2 after a 40-year career dedicated to the law, social justice and higher education. Chief of Staff Charlita Shelton recently sat down with McGuire for an enlightening conversation.

This month's installment in the ongoing series of Q&A sessions from the Office of Sustainability catches up with Claire Booth. Keep reading to learn about Claire, her views on sustainability, and how she implements sustainable practices into her daily life.

Larry Simkins, the retired president and CEO at the Washington Companies, will visit Gonzaga University's School of Business Administration to deliver its Pigott Entrepreneurship Lecture on "The Perfect Job and the Fear of Failure: A Lifetime of Lessons."

The Gonzaga debate team is vying for a national championship at the National Debate Tournament (NDT) kicking off in Washington, D.C., March 31.

As Zags Give Day hit its 10-year anniversary this year, the Gonzaga community showed no signs that its passion for supporting students pursuing a Jesuit higher education is abating.