Archive for December, 2013

The year’s top 10 stories and a selection of photos from the GCU Today staff and campus photographer Darryl Webb.

This week’s Antelope Intros bring you a public safety officer who sings opera, a student intake specialist who’s a DIY enthusiast, and a simulation and labs manager in the College of Nursing and Health Care Professions who is most proud of being a nurse.

The Phoenix Dream Center, a west Phoenix nonprofit that houses hundreds and feeds thousands of hurting and lost people each month, will receive all proceeds from GCU’s first men’s basketball game in the Western Athletic Conference.

Friend or foe? Johnna Brown has been both to GCU, but now that she’s an Antelope, the women’s basketball program likes her much better. The former Dixie State star has been a big reason for GCU’s 10-2 start in its first season of NCAA Division I play.

Employees at GCU’s Tempe site pulled out all the holiday stops for Christmas decorating this year: thousands of lights, hundreds of ornaments, dozens of trees, a least one baby Jesus and much, much more adorn the cubicles, ceilings and hallways.

Photo highlights from GCU Today’s tour of the University’s 27th Avenue Office Center.

Photo hIghlights from GCU Today’s tour of the University’s Peoria Avenue offices.

Photo highlights from GCU Today’s tour of the University’s Colter Street offices.

Highlights (lowlights, maybe?) from the inaugural fashion show staged by a team of staffers at GCU’s Peoria site.

You won’t find GCU junior Wil Gilliland playing video games in his dorm room when he can be teaching and playing soccer with refugee children living down the street from the University. For his beyond-the-call-of-duty actions as a student leader, Gilliland was selected as the November recipient of the GCU Community Service Award.