Lana Sweeten-Shults

With pilot dream grounded, trades student finds new path at GCU

All Lazarus Crawford ever wanted to be was a pilot. But after a car accident dashed those dreams and he questioned what his purpose was, […]

Dr. Mark Wooden celebrated science, GCU celebrated his legacy

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow When Dr. Randy Gibb arrived at Grand Canyon University in 2014 as the new dean of the Colangelo College […]

GCU's 'King Among Deans,' Dr. Mark Wooden, retiring after 22 years

He leaves a legacy as one of GCU's most skilled problem solvers View the slideshow. It might be the most famous Dr. Mark Wooden anecdote […]

Serving others drives GCU's Engineers Gone Global in Costa Rica

Engineers Gone Global spent seven days in the indigenous mountain village of Shiroles, where GCU students built a playground and led STEM lessons for a […]

High school interns test skills in GCU's La Belle Labs

Local high school students are working alongside La Belle’s GCU student researchers on a slew of projects, from helping create diabetes and sepsis sensors to […]

Nurses chart doctoral path together

Only 3% of the nursing workforce in the United States has earned a doctoral degree. Tracie Koehne and Vanessa Vonich are aiming to count themselves […]

Classroom reimagined to look like workplace via 16-credit-hour learning blocks

What if you took a course that had no quizzes or exams? What if your professor didn't lecture but was there more as a mentor […]

Green to Gold to GCU purple: Army ROTC alum embraces his gift for leadership

2nd Lt. Juan Loera Rogers joined the Army as a carpentry and masonry specialist. But he wanted something more, so he took advantage of every […]

Year in review: It was a new name for the Honors College, a new game for Athletics

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published in the April issue of GCU Magazine, available in the purple bins on campus or digitially. Things never […]