Academics

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon makes historic visit to GCU

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon visited Grand Canyon University for a day of student performances, campus presentations and conversations with university leaders. She toured Canyon […]

New dean: GCU's College of Natural Sciences 'rethinking science education'

Dr. Jon Valla, after leaving his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, planned to become a psychologist, until an internship made him realized that wasn't for him. […]

Student's presentation excellence highlights microbiology event

Jessica Neamtu, cellular and molecular biology major, received an excellence award for her poster presentation on Saturday at the 65th annual Meeting of the American […]

Students build companion robots, research scooterless students in poster projects

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow Imagine you’re a freshman. It’s the first day of class at your new school, Grand Canyon University. You’re far […]

Forensic Science Day 2026

About 2,600 high school and community college students were expected to visit the Grand Canyon University campus on Thursday for Forensic Science Day. They toured […]

GCU shares scholarly work at global character conference

Faculty and staff from Grand Canyon University’s Canyon Center for Character Education and the Office of Research and Grants represented the university recently at the […]

Virtual engagement: GCU is connecting with students in the metaverse

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published in the August issue of GCU Magazine, available in the purple bins on campus or digitally. Imagine working […]

She helped build a flight simulator – and boosted her aerospace experience

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared in the April issue of GCU Magazine, available in the purple bins around campus or digitally. It is the […]

Cybersecurity icon shares insights on NASA, early days of information security

Cybersecurity icon Rich Owen, one of the thought leaders in the field, wrote the "pink book," a document that was the original cybersecurity standard for […]