Stories

A Gonzaga University graduate and a current faculty member who both served in Ukraine are following the war with heavy hearts.

With COVID restrictions lifting, Gonzaga University Civil Engineering Chair and Professor Rhonda Young is finalizing plans to take 18 students majoring in civil engineering and engineering management to the Netherlands for three weeks to study sustainable urban infrastructure. She took a similar group of students there in 2019 and the students gained a significant education in urban planning.

A Jesuit priest who studied at Gonzaga University and later oversaw Jesuit works in Ukraine for 13 years after the fall of the Soviet Union says a refugee center he helped start in the western city of Lviv is right in the middle of citizens' flight from the war.

Ten doctoral, graduate and undergraduate students from Gonzaga's School of Leadership Studies are currently at the Brussels European Forum for a weeklong intensive global leadership experience. Along with 40 other international students, they are participating in simulations of the North Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs Council and G-20.

If you're thinking about studying abroad, it's a good idea to start planning early!

On this International Women's Day, we continue to be inspired some of the many, many women who graduated from Gonzaga and have dedicated themselves to creating a better world for others.

Five international students at Gonzaga share about food, festivals and traditions from their homelands, plus ways the classroom experience differs in the U.S.

Joan Iva C. Fawcett, Dean for Social Justice Leadership and Community Empowerment, offers a greeting to prospective students for the New Year and describes some of the programming happening this semester.

How Jim and Linda ('97) Hunt are partnering with GU to encourage global engagement in future-focused, healthy ways.

The Vatican on Sunday launched the enrollment phase of the Laudato Si' Action Platform, an initiative in collaboration with partners around the world to empower the Catholic Church to achieve total sustainability in the spirit of integral ecology.

Gerardo Moises Gutierrez Rivas & Carla Penha Vasconcelos graduated from the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies program and are now beginning to teach in the program. Carla and Moises reflect on their journey here and what they hope for this next community of students.

Over the past year, we have researched how girls are leading in the climate justice movement. As communication scholars, we are interested in the strategies climate girls use to frame their message. Read more to find out the main three things we learned.

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.

How we welcome and support international students at Gonzaga

Gonzaga University graduate and former student regent Heather Dooley has been named to the advisory council of Infrastructure Masons, a nonprofit association of technology and business leaders who represent more than $150 billion in infrastructure projects in over 130 countries.