GCU Magazine

August 2026

Cover story

Employers love GCU alumni and students, from startup Whatnot, which has hired more than 30 of them, to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

GCU Insider

What’s happening with the old Education Building? Are the "Girls Gone Bible" podcasters really coming to campus? Here’s what happened while you were away.

Supercomputer

Students did the improbable. They built the campus’s first high-performance computing cluster, able to solve complex problems in seconds.

Summer escape

Summertime and the livin’ is easy. But we found students who lived large, traveling to the Holy Land and delving into internships in Malaysia and Washington, D.C.

Faith+ AI

GCU’s Faith+, a homegrown artificial intelligence tool, is helping curriculum designers and faculty integrate Christian worldview into the curriculum.

Family legacy

Kendra Goodere (then Roer) set the Grand Canyon volleyball record with 364 blocks. Now her daughter, Aubrey, is on course to break it.

Rising star

Graduate Chris Tungseth reached the Top 5 on the latest season of “American Idol” and just released his first single, “Lonely Road.”

Content creator

Jon Zaghloul, once a sports blogger with a successful show, “Sports Talk Chicago,” now uses his digital and social media skills for the city of Aurora.