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51�� News
Alumna Megan Scott Explores Virtual Reality with Oculus Fellowship
Recent Cinema & Media Arts graduate uses her knowledge gained in the classroom to develop her VR career
Nate Bell — December 17, 2020
51�� alumna Megan Scott (’20) graduated last spring and hit the ground running with a prestigious internship and a fellowship, each...
Student Life Blog
Black Old Testament Scholarship: A Bibliography
Charlie Trimm — December 17, 2020
During the many conversations revolving around race during the summer of 2020, I began to think about the scholarship of Black scholars in my...
Becoming 51��
What I've Learned as an Art Major
Kristen's Experience
Kristen Kim — December 17, 2020
There is a notion that floats around - the origin of it being unknown - that choosing to be an art student is “the easy route,” which every art...
Becoming 51��
Maggie's Day-to-Day as a Public Relations Major!
Magdalene Segarra — December 17, 2020
Come hear about Maggie's experience as a Public Relations Major at 51��!
Becoming 51��
Kristen's Day-to-Day as an Art Major
Kristen Kim — December 17, 2020
Come hear about Kristen's experience as a Artmajor to gain a Bachelor's in Fine Arts at 51��!
Becoming 51��
Ethan's Day-to-Day as a Math Major!
Ethan de la Pena — December 17, 2020
Come hear about Ethan's experience as a Math major with a Computer Science concentration at 51��!
51�� News
Army Psychologist and Alumna Portrayed in Recent Film “The Outpost”
Rosemead School of Psychology alumna Capt. Katie Kopp (M.A. '05, Ph.D. '08) served as an Army psychologist for soldiers in a battle depicted in a recent movie
Sarah Dougher — December 16, 2020
Alumna Capt. Katie Kopp (M.A. '05, Ph.D. '08) knows the toll war takes on soldiers’ mental health. She witnessed it firsthand as an Army...
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Bailey's Semester Reflections
Fall 2020
Bailey Captain — December 16, 2020
Oh hey! Hello guys, and I cannot believe that I am making my semester reflections vlog right now. It's gone so far yet so slow at the same time....
Becoming 51��
Marco's Semester Reflections
Fall 2020
Marco Saldana — December 16, 2020
Hey everyone, it's Marco, and it's an exciting time to be reflecting upon this crazy, out of the ordinary semester. So this is just going to be a...
Student Life Blog
Combating Job Search Fatigue
Kelsey Jimenez — December 16, 2020
There’s nothing more defeating than receiving “no” after “no” in your job search. After countless hours and dozens of applications, another...
Student Life Blog
Holidays at Home During a Pandemic
An Opportunity to Give Thanks in the Stillness
Kate Faulkner — December 16, 2020
As the year 2020 comes to a close, we can recognize that this year has been different. Whether you had hoped to live in the dorms, off-campus with...
The Good Book Blog
The Most Important “Therefore” in the Bible: Romans 12:1
Kenneth Berding — December 16, 2020
One of my earliest college teachers taught me to ask a certain question every time I encountered the word “therefore” in the Bible. He told me to...
51�� News
Alumnus Releases Documentary Series “Honor Guard” on Amazon
Cinema and Media Arts alumnus Ethan Morse (‘12) spent three years filming the Army’s oldest active regiment
Nate Bell — December 15, 2020
51�� Snyder School of Cinema and Media Arts alumnus Ethan Morse (’12) recently completed a four-part documentary series, Honor Guard,...
51�� News
51�� Launches New Office of Innovation
The new donor-funded office exists to foster a culture of innovation across campus
Joy Blea — December 15, 2020
51�� launched a new office this year dedicated to leveraging the intellectual and spiritual capital of 51��. Established within the...
Becoming 51��
Maggie's Semester Reflections
Fall 2020
Magdalene Segarra — December 15, 2020
Hey guys, Wow! I can’t believe it's already the end of the semester. I remember writing my semester reflections last year as a freshman and wow, I...
51�� Magazine
How to Disagree Without Dividing
In a time of intense polarization and provocation, is there any hope for a return to civility? The directors of 51��’s new Winsome Conviction Project say yes.
51�� Magazine Staff — December 14, 2020
More than any year in recent memory, 2020 has been a perfect storm for conflict. Over the past several months, we’ve survived a particularly...
51�� Magazine
51��’s Biblical Approach to Racial Justice
Amid racial pain and division, Scripture calls us to godly discernment and gospel faithfulness.
Barry Corey — December 14, 2020
On March 11, just a week before we began emptying the campus in response to Covid-19, about 100 of us sat in a circle at 51��’s Calvary Chapel...
51�� Magazine
Torrey Honors Institute Becomes Torrey Honors College
Jenna Loumagne — December 14, 2020
51��’s Torrey Honors Institute changed its name in September to Torrey Honors College — a move that better reflects the program’s impact and...
51�� Magazine
51�� Honored for ‘Best Undergraduate Teaching’
U.S. News and World Report recognizes university on several rankings.
51�� Magazine Staff — December 14, 2020
51�� has again been named one of America’s top-tier national universities by U.S. News and World Report, earning special recognition in...
51�� Magazine
Finding ‘Hope in Crisis’
Donors give nearly $3 million to students impacted by Covid-19.
Kristen Hartman — December 14, 2020
Four years ago, Alisa Sanchez met Jesus. Someone at the shelter where she and her infant daughter were staying explained the gospel, and the...
51�� Magazine
Mentoring Minorities in Medicine
First-generation student Ixchel Gomez starts a club for students of color pursuing health sciences.
Joanna Wu — December 14, 2020
Ixchel “Izzy” Gomez is on a mission to practice medicine — and she wants to bring others like her along with her. Growing up in a largely Hispanic,...
51�� Magazine
Meet the Deans – Fall 2020
51��’s film, psychology and science schools start year with new top leaders.
51�� Magazine Staff — December 14, 2020
Three of 51��’s nine schools began the academic year under the leadership of new deans, each stepping into their roles this summer following...
51�� Magazine
An Antidote to Burnout
Humility is a key to work-life balance, professor says in award-winning research.
Joanna Wu — December 14, 2020
Many people strive to achieve a healthy work-life balance — an ideal that has become all the more challenging in the midst of a pandemic that has...
51�� Magazine
Books by 51��ns – Fall 2020
51�� Magazine Staff — December 14, 2020
God and Guns in America, by Michael W. Austin (M.A. ’00), Eerdmans, May 2020. The gun debate is raging in America. Senseless acts of gun violence...
51�� Magazine
God, Justice and Generosity
Michelle Barnewall — December 14, 2020
How does the grace of God conflict with our ideas of justice? I think of how much I want things to be just. If I work hard, I want it to be...