Hear from Emma Zuercher, a student in the Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS) fall 2020 cohort, about how the SLS is an immersive language experience. She described how the SLS allowed her to focus on the nuances of the English language in a way she never previously encountered.
Mandira Panta Mandira Panta, a junior sustainability studies major from Kavre, Nepal, chose Goshen College partly because she wanted a liberal arts education. In her country, it is typical to plunge directly into a specific field, but Mandira wants a future that includes both science and social science perspectives. She…
“Camping, hiking, fishing, boating…My parents raised me to be an adventurer,” says Skye McKinnell, a senior environmental science major from Salem, Ore. It didn’t take long for her to realize that she wanted a career where she could work outside. Including Merry Lea’s Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS) in her academic…
Living in a rural area is a new challenge for some students who take the Sustainability Leadership Semester at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, Wolf Lake, Ind. For Rheannon Starr, Merriam, Ind., it is a chance to get a different perspective on her home community which is…
Benjamin and Rianna Isaak-Krauss at Merry Lea. Benjamin and Rianna Isaak-Krauss bring a unique perspective to the 2018 cohort of Merry Lea’s Sustainability Leadership Semester (SLS): they are seminary students rather than undergraduates. The married couple will graduate from the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in 2019 with credits from…
Who studies sustainability at Goshen College? Meet Laura Hochstetler, Wellman, Iowa. Laura is the kind of person who thrives at a liberal arts college. She has many interests and has combined them into an interdisciplinary major with areas of concentration in music, sustainability studies and entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, she is…
Seth Lapp, a fifth-year senior environmental science major from Lowville, New York, has a knack for relating his coursework in the present to his past experiences and hopes for the future. Seth did a summer internship with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that enabled him to explore…
José Chiquito Galvan Who majors in sustainability studies at Goshen College? Meet José Chiquito Galvan, class of 2020. José first encountered Goshen College through his biology teachers at Goshen High School. Both of his teachers his junior and senior…
Jack Shomberg, an environmental science major at Goshen College, faced hard-headed questions from city officials while he was working with them on a restoration project. “I’d love to do green stuff, but how do we sell it to the public?” one said. These are the kinds of questions that a…
Hannah Barg, class of 2016, is spending her first year out of college as a network organizer. She works with the Community Resilience Guild, Goshen, Ind. For one recent project, Hannah interviewed community members in order to assess the possibility of convening a climate change network. During the interviews, she…
