Students

The 2005-2006 Newhall Awards illustrate the groundbreaking research and curriculum that the GTU regularly fosters among its students and faculty. Organizational leadership, theology and natural science, Jewish liturgy, and U.S. Hispanic theology are among the topics to be developed in classrooms and research projects this year.

The 2004-2005 Newhall Awards reflect the wide spectrum of rich interdisciplinary projects undertaken at the GTU. Among the topics to be explored this year are Asian theology, ethics and genetics, globalization, and literature and religion.

The Newhall awards offer a wonderful opportunity for students to work closely with professors whose interests and approaches parallel their own, on projects that would not be possible otherwise. The fellowships are made possible by Jane Newhall, a Trustee Emerita and longtime friend of the GTU.

The Newhall awards for 2003-04 embody the range and boldness of scholarly inquiry at the GTU. Issues of social justice, moral agency, aesthetics, and ecofeminism are only a few of the topics tackled by the eighteen student-faculty pairs who received awards this year.

Student, faculty member, and subject of the proposal. For more information or to contact any of the faculty members, visit the GTU Faculty web pages

Thomasin Alexander and Lewis Rambo
Conversion to Christianity

Jorge Aquino and Clare Fischer
History of Western social thought

Kate Bellm and Alejandro Garcia-Rivera
Theology, aesthetics, and the arts

This year's course "Ecumenical Social Ethics in an Age of Globalization" is exploring a question that touches on one of the GTU's abiding concerns: what is the role of religion in the public sphere, now that most local issues are also global in their import, and most global issues are also local?

Twenty-one student-faculty pairs, and one quartet, were awarded Newhall Fellowships for 1999–2000. These research or teaching awards are designed to support both students, through grants, and faculty, through the student’s assistance. With themes ranging from biblical scholarship, Taoist spirituality, and social welfare policy to the spiritual aspects of bereavement and religion in cinema, the Newhall projects exemplify the spirit of diversity which is the GTU’s greatest strength.