Young GCU basketball teams are coming of age
Story by Rick Vacek Photos by Darryl Webb GCU News Bureau The Big Ten Conference’s “year of readiness” proposal to make freshmen ineligible in some NCAA sports would have left a lot of basketball teams...
View ArticleAntelope Intros: Tammy Bernard-Fraser and Rosa Avila
Antelope Intros is a recurring GCU Today feature that introduces some of our new employees to the people around them in a way that is fun and informative. Employees are eligible to be featured in the...
View ArticleMaster’s = adventure in Qatar for new graduate
By Janie Magruder GCU Today Magazine There are no tiny patients born too early for their own good, no new mothers wrung out with worry over their babies’ ragged breaths, no nurses rushing to respond to...
View ArticleLearning a new way: COE transforming Arizona’s classrooms
Story by Michael Ferraresi Photos by Darryl Webb GCU Today Magazine As his second graders sat cross-legged in front of a colorful interactive assignment board, Anthony Pérez cautiously monitored the...
View ArticleBlended learning format mixes traditional, online learning
Story by Cooper Nelson GCU Today Magazine During his Tuesday afternoon Math 134 class, Grand Canyon University professor Dr. Filippo Posta lectures on algebra and calculus to more than 80 freshmen and...
View ArticleAlumni Hall of Fame inductees have global influence
By GCU News Bureau “Remarkable” is an apt term to describe the eight members of Grand Canyon University’s 2015 Alumni Hall of Fame who are scheduled to be inducted during a special ceremony Saturday on...
View ArticleChapel: Prayer Week is a time to be all ears
By Rick Vacek GCU News Bureau Preston Morrison’s Chapel talk Monday morning at Grand Canyon University Arena was easy to listen to but tough on the ears. Morrison, pastor of Gateway Church in...
View ArticleGCU Today Magazine highlights ed partnership
The latest edition of GCU Today Magazine — spotlighting a successful collaboration between the University’s College of Education and the Rodel Foundation of Arizona that is benefitting tomorrow’s...
View ArticleInternational swimmers bond over turmoil at home
By Cooper Nelson GCU Today Magazine When Illya Glazunov wants information on the crisis in Ukraine, he’ll turn on the news or check Facebook. But he tries not to think about his war-torn home. A year...
View ArticleGCU nurses share extraordinary achievements
Story by Janie Magruder Photos by Darryl Webb GCU Today Magazine They grew up worlds apart, one in Swaziland with missionary parents and four siblings, the other in a smaller military family that over...
View ArticleHealing from the heartbreak of childhood cancer
By Janie Magruder GCU News Bureau Life was too short for McKenzie Monks. GCU student Mandy Monks (left) and her sister, Michelle, have kept alive their little sister’s spirit through Kenzie Kases....
View ArticleSpeakers, debaters to face elite teams at tourney
By Michael Ferraresi GCU News Bureau Grand Canyon University’s speech and debate team has continued to earn individual honors and first-place finishes since its award-winning inaugural 2013-14 season....
View ArticleAntelope Intros: Robyn Poynter and Michelle Key
Antelope Intros is a recurring GCU Today feature that introduces some of our new employees to the people around them in a way that is fun and informative. Employees are eligible to be featured in the...
View ArticleGCU checks in with hotel, hospitality program
Story by Rick Vacek Photos by Darryl Webb GCU News Bureau “You can’t be a grumpy hotel guy.” It’s something Brett Cortright likes to say, but it might as well be the marketing slogan for Grand Canyon...
View ArticleGCU to serve up, tee up new business programs
By Rick Vacek GCU News Bureau The new tennis and golf course management programs at Grand Canyon University will give students opportunities to learn all aspects of their respective industries — not...
View ArticleStudents push to eradicate hurtful ‘R-word’
Photos courtesy of Rebekah Dyer More than 220 students contributed to a paper chain that’s now hanging in the ground floor hallway at the College of Education as part of a national campaign “Spread the...
View ArticleTiny starter for GCU cancer run a comeback kid
By Janie Magruder GCU News Bureau Jimmy Bryant couldn’t believe his ears. The emergency room nurse at Chandler Regional Hospital, who just minutes before had pulled Bryant’s young daughter from his...
View ArticleChildhood cancer community, GCU team up at run
By Janie Magruder GCU News Bureau Childhood cancer is on the run from scientists working round-the-clock to crack its insidious code, but there was no place for the devastating disease to hide Saturday...
View ArticleThousands raise awareness of childhood cancer, support young patients at GCU run
Photos by Darryl Webb GCU News Bureau You couldn’t have asked for a better morning or a more inspirational crowd for the fifth annual GCU Foundation Run to Fight Children’s Cancer Saturday on campus....
View Article‘Social NOTworking’ week encourages students to ‘disconnect to reconnect’
Story by Cooper Nelson Photos by Tyler McDonald GCU News Bureau Put your smartphone down, log out of Facebook and stop tweeting: GCU is urging students to disconnect from social media and to reconnect...
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