Achievements from our Students
All-American basketball player Samantha Murphy has been named the Pacific West Conference Women's Athlete of the Year. Murphy was the NCAA Division II scoring leader in 2010-11 with an average of 24.6 points per game. She scored 2,147 points in her four-year career at GCU. Murphy and Coach Trent May recently helped put on a mini-camp for more than a dozen children who are battling cancer.
Achievements from our Faculty
Danae Farrell has been appointed to the 2012 President of the Arizona Health Care Executives (AHE), the Arizona Chapter of the American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE). This group is a network of healthcare professionals dedicated to the career development of its membership. Danae Farrell is an assistant professor of Health Care Administration in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Ginger L. McPherson, an instructor of English and Christian Worldview, has successfully defended her dissertation, the final step in earning her Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. Her dissertation is entitled "Serialization and 'The Book of Mrs. Eddy': A Rereading of Mark Twain's Christian Science Materials." In addition, Dr. McPherson has also been invited to join the prestigious national academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. She will celebrate her doctoral graduation in May 2011.
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Dr. Sammy Alfaro, Assistant Professor of Christian Studies, has had his most recent book published last October (2010) by Pickwick Publishers. The title is Divino Compañero: Toward a Hispanic Pentecostal Christology. The book aims to develop a methodology for constructing a Christology from a Hispanic Pentecostal perspective. The book has recently won the HTI annual book prize. Dr. Alfaro recently gave a talk on his book at Princeton.
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Ruth Douthitt, lead curriculum developer for our colleges of Arts and Sciences and Fine Arts and Production, has written her first book. It's called "The Dragon Forest," and it tells the fictional story of a prince who sets out to save his father's kingdom.
Achievements from our Alumni
Paul Barker (2011) is a recent graduate from GCU's pre-med program who was recently accepted to attend the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee beginning in the Fall 2012 semester.
Achievements from our Staff
David Spilker is the administrative assistant for the College of Arts and Sciences and he recently graduated from Grand Canyon University with a Master's of Education in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).
