March 27, 2013
By Heather DeRosa, Class of 2014
The best part about college, among many other fabulous things, is the chance to get out of my comfort zone and dive right into new cultures and experiences. The latest opportunity to escape my comfort zone was to attend a service at a Jewish synagogue.
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Posted by Heather DeRosa at 12:09 pm
March 26, 2013
By Tracy Berg, Class of 2013
Very few universities connect students with faculty like George Fox does. I’ve had insightful late-night conversations with professors, and even been invited over for Thanksgiving when I didn’t have anywhere else to go. Recently, I was shown once again just how committed the faculty at George Fox is to meeting students where they’re at.
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Posted by Jeremy Lloyd at 11:00 am
March 14, 2013
Heather (second from left) and members of the Crescent staff enjoy the sights in San Francisco.
Big things are happening for the George Fox Crescent. We recently launched our own website, gfucrescent.com, back in January, and even more recently got the chance to head to the Association of Collegiate Press Mid-Winter conference in San Francisco to learn about the latest things happening in the field of journalism.
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Posted by Heather DeRosa at 5:03 pm
January 29, 2013
Professor Paul Anderson presents “A Bi-Optic Hypothesis” at the most recent Intellectual Feast.
Intellectual Feasts happen about twice a month at George Fox’s Newberg campus. Typically, an Intellectual Feast is an event where a faculty member from the Religious Studies Department – or occasionally a guest speaker – gets the opportunity to share their research or hypothesis with their colleagues, students, and anyone else who wants to join in and feast on new knowledge and theory.
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Posted by Heather DeRosa at 2:11 pm
January 24, 2013
Lexie Christopherson interned in Dhaka, Bangladesh during winter break.
George Fox students recently returned to the daily grind of classes, homework and studying after a long winter break. Here are a few students’ stories of what they did with their month off from classes. While most of us spent our breaks getting caught up with family and friends, and enjoying home cooking a bit too much, these students got out and made the most of their time off.
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Posted by Heather DeRosa at 2:35 pm
November 13, 2012
Bailey at work with Carpe Viam Group
The hunt for an internship can be rough at any time, so when I was in Costa Rica on a study abroad semester and trying to find an internship in the Portland area to fulfill my graduation requirements, I thought I was doomed. Luckily, Cindy Aggson, founder and managing partner of Carpe Viam Group, came through for me. Carpe Viam Group is a small marketing firm based in the Portland area.
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Posted by Jeremy Lloyd at 6:29 pm
Students network with local business leaders following the Internship Spotlight event.
The newly-appointed director of business relations for the George Fox School of Business, Jeff recently hosted an Internship Spotlight event in front of a packed classroom filled with eager students. Current students who are already in internships shared their experiences, while local business owners talked about the importance of interns from their perspective.
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Posted by Jeremy Lloyd at 4:17 pm
October 25, 2012
By Heather DeRosa (’14), photos by Shekinah Davis (’15)
What: The Servant of Two Masters, performed by the George Fox University Theatre Department
When: Oct. 25-27 & Nov. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 28 & Nov. 4 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: University Box Office
The Servant of Two Masters is set to open in Wood-Mar Auditorium tonight. Originally written in 1743 by playwright Carlo Goldoni, the production offers audiences a classic comedy written in the Italian tradition of Commedia Dell’ Arte.
“This play is about a servant who happens upon two different masters and just the chaos that is involved in that because the masters do not know he is serving them both at the same time,” explained stage manager Kimberly Russell, who was careful to not give too much of the story away for those who aren’t familiar with the play. “They are both staying at the same inn in two different rooms. He’s going back and forth between the two. At the same time the two masters are lovers; one is a woman dressed up as a man. There’s just a lot of comedy involved.” Continue reading
Posted by Heather DeRosa at 6:13 pm
October 9, 2012
Yale and Dartmouth had both offered her a full ride scholarship, but for Paige Copenhaver the choice was clear. “I chose to come to George Fox instead of the Ivy Leagues,” she says, “and I’m really happy with that decision.”
A biology major who graduated in December of 2011 after just two and a half years of undergraduate work, Copenhaver’s 2180 SAT score and impressive high school resume allowed her the freedom to attend just about any college in the country. But in the end Paige chose to accept presidential merit and science scholarships from George Fox, which allowed her to learn about the world around her from a Christian perspective – a rare luxury in her field.
“That’s a pretty secular world,” she explains,” and I wanted to have a foundation in a Christian education before I moved off into that.”
Today, she is pursuing a graduate degree at the University of Wyoming. Read on for an update from Paige on her latest adventures in field research, and her continued commitment to bring glory to God through her work.
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Posted by Jeremy Lloyd at 2:23 pm
August 27, 2012
That’s what we asked George Fox professors, and to no surprise, the response was almost unanimous: “I can only choose one book?” What we didn’t expect was the wide variety of answers, ranging from books that delved into the usual topics of religion, politics and history to a novel that follows the story of an ambassador from Earth as he treks across an alien world. And more than one professor cracked open The Hunger Games trilogy to better connect with their students.
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Posted by Jeremy Lloyd at 1:38 pm
