Following a week of intensive reflection, discussion, and collaborative ideation, Gettysburg College's inaugural Peace and Justice Transformative Leadership Fellows return to their spheres of the world-from Arizona to New York, Canada to the capital of the United States, and beyond-as leaders of peace, justice, and change. Leveraging the foundational leadership skills they learned here, each fellow will now embark on a yearlong social change project that they envisioned while in Gettysburg. "It's very much critical praxis, which is the synergy between theory and action," said Fellowship Co-Director Daniel Jones '22, who is also president of the Peace and Justice Student Council on campus. "Through the various sessions we held during the Transformative Leaders Fellowship, we didn't just give the students the tools to be leaders and changemakers. It was also a priority of ours to teach them how to use those tools, then giving them the space they need to figure out how to best employ and further develop them in their own home communities." Read the full story.

In the fall of 2020, Meem Noshin Nawal Khan '24 started her Gettysburg College experience from her home in Bangladesh. A year later, as the COVID-19 pandemic improved, the chemistry major found a home on campus, spending most of her time in a Science Center lab as a research assistant for Chemistry Prof. Suvrajit Sengupta. No longer navigating a 10-hour time difference while taking Gettysburg classes from Bangladesh, the Eisenhower Scholar arrived in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ready to take on new challenges. She began working as a residence coordinator and participated in the Cross-Disciplinary Science Institute during the summer of 2021. Hoping to become an environmental chemist in Bangladesh one day, Khan has cherished the interdisciplinary nature of her liberal arts and sciences education combined with her co-curricular experiences, as it has allowed her to pursue various passions while learning how to make an impact.

Amy Cantrell '22 arrived at Gettysburg College on move-in day in the fall of 2019 without ever visiting. The cross country and track and field junior transfer grew up on the west coast but wanted to branch out and try something completely new. Cantrell graduated in 2017 from Wood River High School in Hailey, Idaho, and then went on to attend Montana State University. Cantrell made an immediate impact for the Orange and Blue in 2019 as she competed in all nine races, finishing as the No. 2 runner in six. She guided the Bullets as the top runner at the Centennial Conference Championship, which was hosted by Gettysburg, placing 34th with a personal-record (PR) mark of 24:05.7 in the 6,000-meter course. Cantrell concluded the season by finishing as the team's No. 2 runner at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional, taking 147th with a 24:31.5 time out of over 345 runners.

Amanda Oross '22 participated in the 2020 Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium hosted by Johns Hopkins Kreiger School of Arts & Sciences in April. The symposium is invitation only and provides students from across the humanities with an opportunity to share their research. Oross, who is an art history major with a minor in environmental studies, presented research on two bronze jues (one is a replication) or ritual libation cups from Gettysburg College's Musselman Library Special Collections. The original bronze jue hails from the Late Shang to the early Western Zhou period of the Chinese Bronze Age, a time in which jues were used as ritual wine-drinking vessels.

As part of the Kolbe Fellows Program last summer, Merlyn Maldonado Lopez '22 curated the art exhibition, "Martin Puryear: 40 Years Since Sentinel." The exhibit, which was on display at the Gettysburg College Schmucker Art Gallery earlier this semester, celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sentinel sculpture on campus. It featured a working mold Puryear constructed in preparation for Sentinel, photographs of the 1982 installation, and prints by Puryear that were recently acquired by the College and loaned from a private collection. Read Maldonado Lopez's first-person reflection about the research she conducted during the curation process.

Gettysburg College students take pride in their work, and we are likewise proud to announce their recent academic achievements. Students whose semester averages were 3.6 or above were recently placed on the Dean's Honor List. The following local students have been awarded this outstanding academic achievement in the Spring 2021 semester.

Gettysburg College students take pride in their work, and we are likewise proud to announce their recent academic achievements. Students with a quality point average in the range of 3.300 to 3.599 for a semester's work were recently placed on the Deans' Commendation List. The following students from your area have been placed on the Spring 2021 list:

Rachel Ruffner '23 is a storyteller at heart. She loves how a well-crafted piece of writing can transport readers to a completely different world. She gets lost in the dark, and at times, the chilling words of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King-two of her favorite authors- take her to the dreary chamber in "The Raven" and to Derry, Maine, the setting of "It." Since Ruffner was in elementary school, she enjoyed writing fanfiction for her friends. Today, when she considers the stories she might want to write from scratch, she's brought back to the styles of Poe and King. Ruffner, an English major with a writing concentration and Japanese minor at Gettysburg College, who also works at the Writing Center, said she's still discovering her voice and gaining experience through her personal and academic endeavors with writing, including her recent internship with local news website Gettysburg Connection. However, in the future, she sees herself working toward writing a gothic romance novel. Read the full story.

Melanie Ourhaan '20, a political science major and business and economics double minor, has had the unique experience of interning for the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) as a Virtual Student Federal Service content creator. The IVLP, the U.S. Department of State's premier professional exchange program, has helped strengthen U.S. engagement with countries around the world. During her internship, Ourhaan created digital content for the Faces of Exchange website that showcases the impact featured IVLP alumni have had on the world. Read more.

In early June, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation's most prestigious academic honor society, selected history major Jaeger Held '22 as one of its 2021 Key into Public Service Scholars. Held is also pursuing minors in civil war era studies, public history, and peace and justice studies. Chosen from more than 800 applicants attending chapter institutions across the nation, Held and 19 other scholars will receive a $5,000 undergraduate scholarship and participate in a virtual conference from June 24-25, which will provide them with training, mentoring, and reflection on pathways into active citizenship in the tradition of Phi Beta Kappa's founders. Read the full story.

In March, Benjamin Roy '21 of Bostic, N.C., was named one of the 18 winners of the 2020 Beinecke Scholarship, selected from more than 664 college juniors in 110 undergraduate institutions nationwide. Roy, a history major with minors in Civil War era studies and public history, is the first Gettysburg College recipient of the scholarship.

Opportunities to learn and grow exist around every corner for Gettysburg College students, from extracurricular activities on campus, to community-based learning, and the valuable global perspective offered through studying abroad-a Gettysburg program ranked No. 7 in the nation by International Educational Exchange's Open Doors Report. Here at Gettysburg, the world is your classroom. Recently, two Gettysburg College students-Valerie Ramos '22 and Mariah Beck '22-were awarded scholarships from the competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, which will support their studies abroad. Read the story.

As the son of two secondary school teachers and a member of a family filled with educators, Logan Grubb '21 of Hummelstown, PA, has always known the value of learning. Although he'll more than likely be the first to break this line of succession, Grubb is drawing on his economics and public policy majors to impact a field that has influenced him throughout his life - music education. Read Grubb's full story.

Jonathan Trilleras will spend the Fall 2019 semester studying in Denmark. He was presented with a $1,000 award from the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program.

At Gettysburg College, we see value and power in the passionate voices of our students. Individually and collectively, their voices not only facilitate meaningful and productive conversations, but they also spur innovative ideas, action, and change. Consortium of North American Peace Programs (CONAPP), a new undergraduate student-run and student-centered peace and justice conference, was built on this idea of uplifting student voices. CONAPP intends to give students in peace and justice studies and other related programs from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico a platform where they can share their research, cutting-edge ideas, and practices around peace, justice, conflict resolution, and activism. Read more.

Gettysburg College's Matt Granito '22 was recently named a regional winner at the Draw the Lines competition--a nonpartisan state-wide contest for people of all ages to draw their own election map of Pennsylvania, end gerrymandering, and improve democracy. This is the second time Granito has been honored at the legislative mapping contest. Granito earned second prize in the Higher Education division in Central Pennsylvania and his map will be entered into the statewide round for a chance to win a prize up to $5,000. "As with my previous map last fall, my goals are still compactness and contiguity. With that, I was able to ensure that all 17 districts were connected, and not just by a road or small landmark," said Granito, who plans to major in organization and management studies and minor in computer science. "Districts are clearly unfair if a district is not whole or broken up into pieces. This is the reason that both compactness and contiguity are important factors that lead to a fair map." Learn more about Granito's accomplishment.

Challenge. Failure. Resilience. Triumph. And what it means to be a Gettysburgian through it all. These and other themes were reflected during Gettysburg College's 184th Commencement ceremony as we celebrated the accomplishments of our 611 graduates and looked forward with them to the future. Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni.

Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences with a strong academic tradition that includes Rhodes Scholars, a Nobel laureate and other distinguished scholars among its alumni.

Gettysburg College Mathematics Prof. Beth Campbell Hetrick's First-Year Seminar (FYS) students Matt Granito '22 and Douglas Cummings '22 earned recognition at the Draw the Lines competition- a nonpartisan state-wide contest for people of all ages to draw their own election map of Pennsylvania, end gerrymandering, and improve democracy. Granito and Cummings were awarded honorable mention for accurately dividing Pennsylvania into 18 contiguous, equally populated districts using district builder software and maps. As part of their FYS assignment, they submitted their final map and a statement articulating their goals to the Draw the Lines competition. "My two main goals were contiguity, districts being connected, and compactness, districts with the least perimeter and most area," said Granito. "In class, we heard from a number of guest speakers who explained to us the importance of fair maps, as well as the impact of gerrymandering. Without a doubt, Mathematics of Voting prepared us well for the competition." Gettysburg College encourages students to step out of their comfort zone and explore new ideas through problem solving and critical thinking. Likewise, Hetrick's Mathematics of Voting seminar engages students in hands-on research that bring relevant voting topics to life and helps students analyze hotly contested political actions through a mathematical lens.

There are 55 Gettysburg College students being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in the spring of 2019. Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest Greek-letter society in America, exists to promote liberal learning, to recognize academic excellence, and to support and encourage scholars in their work.