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The Gonzaga University Institute for Hate Studies announces its 2021 Eva Lassman Memorial Student Research Award recipients.

Shuying Li, assistant professor of music at Gonzaga, is one of seven composers selected to receive a 2021 Discovery Grant from the Opera Grants for Women Composers program.

Thursday, May 20 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of St. Ignatius' transformational life change - that fateful day when Ignatius the soldier, struck by a cannonball, began his transformation into Ignatius the pilgrim. A yearlong celebration is planned.

Gonzaga University faculty were honored for their academic teaching, scholarship, and/or citizenship at the virtual Academic Honors Convocation May 3. Their accomplishments were particularly significant in the midst of a world pandemic.

President Thayne McCulloh, D-Phil., today approved the Gonzaga University Fair Trade Resolution, the final component needed to earn the Fair Trade University distinction from the international Fair Trade Campaigns organization.

Jackie Tanios ('21 M.B.A.) is the student speaker at the Graduate Commencement ceremony at Gonzaga University.

Gonzaga University is honored and grateful to have received a significant gift from the New Priorities Foundation in support of its recently established Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment.

Gonzaga is celebrating the 51st Annual Earth Day on April 22 by launching the new Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society and the Environment and an event featuring some of the nation's top thought-leaders on climate change and solutions.

Michelle "Missy" Paulin ('98) is delighted to be in Tokyo serving as a U.S. diplomat at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.

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.

Isabel Yasana Hawley, a member of the Klamath Tribes and a student in Gonzaga's MBA in American Indian Entrepreneurship program, is one of two recipients of the REDW Native American Scholarship in Accounting. REDW LLC is one of the Southwest's 10 largest public accounting and business advisory firms.

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.

The Gonzaga University Institute for Hate Studies is seeking proposals from students, academics and professionals worldwide to present at the Sixth International Conference on Hate Studies set for Nov. 4-6, 2021. Planned for a virtual format, the conference welcomes all interested individuals to submit a proposal.

The Gonzaga community worldwide is invited to unite on the ninth annual Gonzaga Day on March 11 to celebrate the perseverance of Zags amid the pandemic and hope for the future. This special event - days before Selection Sunday - will culminate with an interview with alumni John Stockton ('84) and Laura Stockton ('19), moderated by Matt Santangelo ('00).

Rosemary Muriungi had a dream growing up: to harness the transformative power of learning to help others. After earning a doctorate in leadership studies from Gonzaga ('20), she is fulfilling that dream.