Download the PDF version here When Ginny Martin was a freshman at Maranatha, she decided to run for student society president. “I thought it’d be a fun thing to do,” Martin said. “When I was (elected), I saw that there was more to it than the fun society meetings. There’s more planning involved in it.” [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha’s newest science faculty member is an MD who spent most of his life in Mexico, earned a doctorate in an engineering specialty, once taught high school biology and college linguistics at the same time, recently completed a research fellowship at one of America’s most prestigious universities, and doesn’t yet own a real winter coat. [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha’s Nursing Department is now one of a kind. The College received notification Oct. 11 that it has been accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the nation’s primary accreditation agency for nursing colleges and schools. Maranatha now has the distinction of being the only fundamental Christian college with overall institutional regional accreditation [Continue Reading...]
Maranatha nursing students may be surprised this fall to meet a small family living in the Dining Complex’s bottom floor. Pediatric and infant simulators affectionately nicknamed “Kid Kasey” and “Baby Micah” have joined adult medical simulator “Hal” in the Nursing Department’s educational family. The newest medical mannequins arrived in mid-May. “Hal,” in his mock hospital [Continue Reading...]
Andrea Ray’s conversation with another Purdue University graduate student confirmed that God had placed her in the right place at the right time. “She said to me, ‘The only things I knew about you were that you spoke Spanish and that you believed in God,’ ” Ray recalled. Ray (’11) talked to Maranatha science students [Continue Reading...]
Many Maranatha students gathered around their circle of friends on a sunny Monday after spring break, gushing with excitement to share their stories about sleeping in, ignoring homework, and visiting family. Senior Timothy McKinney’s spring break stories were more unusual. For example, he helped deliver a baby in the middle of the night. And, if [Continue Reading...]
Brynley Dean (’10) describes her five-year academic challenge of earning a double major in piano performance and humanities/applied science as a somewhat diverse learning experience. “Combining the two was very interesting at times,” Dean says. “I would go from analyzing a Beethoven sonata to dissecting a sheep brain.” Dean is preparing to leave her current [Continue Reading...]
Dr. Jesse Sherburn is grateful for a job with positive impact—no pun intended. Sherburn (’04), a Research Mechanical Engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, MS, returned to campus recently to speak to the student body during Winterfest week. He took a short respite from duties that [Continue Reading...]
The locker room scene was odd, especially following a victory. Players hugged, cried, and said goodbye to Heidi Fletcher. The sophomore guard from Riverdale, MI, had packed her belongings for the Dec. 17 trip to Grand Rapids, MI, where Maranatha’s women’s basketball team was to play Grace Bible College. When the bus drove away from [Continue Reading...]
Those who enjoy cranberry sauce as part of their Thanksgiving and Christmas meals have Dr. Juan Zalapa to thank. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Horticulture faculty and USDA-ARS Research Genetecist spoke to a group of Maranatha students recently. Zalapa’s primary area of research is plant breeding and genetics, and his primary focus is the [Continue Reading...]