Lana Sweeten-Shults

Geared for creativity, engineering professor named campus' KEEN Rising Star

Dr. Luke Mayer wanted to work in a national or research lab, but he always thought he'd go into teaching later down the road. Then […]

Decadelong GCU, Back-to-School partnership cut from the right cloth

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow As a class of schoolchildren from Tempe’s Arredondo Elementary School exited Grand Canyon University’s Global Credit Union Arena, Robert […]

Athletic training program exercises focus to excel on national exam

Roll out a new version of a rigorous national exam, watch the cookie start to crumble. It’s what happened on last year’s Board of Certification […]

Canyon Rising the next evolution of SIS scholarship program

The groundbreaking, pay-it-forward Students Inspiring Students scholarship program helped transform the lives of hundreds of students in the neighborhoods around GCU who were awarded the […]

Nursing family takes a shot at master’s program together

Grand Canyon University's nursing faculty has seen husbands and wives go through nursing programs together, but it’s unusual for a whole family of nurses to […]

GCU GenCyber camp building a strong network of cyber-savvy teachers

Teachers played cybersecurity games like capture the flag and delved into activities in which they represented packets of data chaotically moving through the internet. Those […]

GCU faculty switches gears to help Team USA BMX athletes

Most days you’ll find Michael McKenney, Marc Eilers and Dr. Brandon Warner at GCU's athletic training program’s facility in Chaparral Hall teaching the next generation […]

For pastor, future nurse, it's all about caring

Greg Oppennuizen started taking college courses again in 2019, hoping to fulfill his church’s goals of its pastoral team becoming bivocational. Having two job meant […]

Nurse who made the move to the U.S. finds passion in teaching

Jan Kear, who's from Manchester, England, was working as a nurse when her husband, a factory-trained Rolls-Royce technician, told her, "We're moving to America!" after […]