Professor Ferch Earns $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship November 18, 2011 Professor Shann "Ray" Ferch was awarded a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Service Ethic a Key in Making Students Become People for Others November 11, 2011 When Meagan (Brncick) Terry ('06) went to the White House Nov. 2 to accept the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, she said it felt like the culmination of a path she chose as a GU undergraduate. U.S. News & World Report Ranks GU No.3 in West September 20, 2011 Graduation and Freshman Retention Rates No. 2 in West; Engineering 27th Nationwide GU Reclaims No. 3 Best Regional University Spot September 12, 2011 GU moved up one spot to reclaim the No. 3 spot in U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings. Class of 2015 Best Ever Academically, Most Diverse July 19, 2011 Class of 2015 is strongest academically and most racially diverse. GU's Largest Federal Research Grant Funds Smart Antenna, Radio Lab July 19, 2011 Professor Steve Schennum used a $1.1 million grant to develop new ways to create reliable and secure high-bandwidth wireless communications. Alumna Andrea Woods Named 2011 Gates Scholar May 17, 2011 Andrea Woods received a 2011 Gates Public Service Law Scholarship to attend University of Washington School of Law. Biochemistry Major Nicolas Contreras Humbly Pursues ‘Simple’ Scholarly Goals April 18, 2011 Contreras, who speaks fluent Spanish and has dual citizenship in Colombia and the United States, is among only 81 students nationwide chosen to participate in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP) this summer. School of Business Offers New Hybrid-Model MBA in Healthcare Management February 15, 2011 The School of Business Administration developed a new hybrid model for its MBA in Healthcare Management Program. Resilience in Romania January 01, 2011 'Leadership and Accompaniment' in Romania GU Ranked No 4 Best in Region 17th for Engineering August 16, 2010 GU was ranked No. 4 best regional university in the West (tie), No. 2 for alumni giving and engineering program ranked No. 17 (tie) nationwide. GU's MBA Program Ranked No. 58 in Nation April 21, 2010 U.S. News & World Report ranked Master of Business Administration (MBA) program No. 58 in the nation for part-time programs. Sophomore Rodriquez Perez Bound for Harvard This Summer for Genetics Research April 14, 2010 Rodriguez Perez, a biochemistry major from the coastal town of Long Beach, Wash., was chosen to work in the lab of Harvard Professor and HHMI investigator Norbert Perrimon as part of HHMI's Exceptional Research Opportunities Program (EXROP). Young Bio-Chemists at Work January 05, 2010 Senior Javier Gonzalez connects a slender syringe to delicate tubing that emerges from a boxy piece of scientific equipment called a mass spectrometer. Gonzaga to Join Major National Science Education Effort December 17, 2009 The Howard Hughes Medical Institute today announced it has invited Gonzaga University and 11 other colleges and universities to join 24 schools in the Science Education Alliance, a national experiment that aims to change the future of undergraduate science education.