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During the spring semester, Gettysburg College faculty, alumni, staff, and students earned widespread media recognition for their expertise and achievements.

Health sciences major Emily Lyons ’26 explains why asking specific questions and building relationships with the people they meet during their college search can help students when deciding what’s important to them when choosing a college.

Gettysburg College is proud to announce that Prof. Jim Downs, the Gilder Lehrman NEH Chair of Civil War Era Studies and Professor of History, has been named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is one of just 198 individuals selected from a pool of more than 3,500 applicants and only the second Gettysburg faculty member to receive this prestigious honor in the 100-year history of the award.

Reflecting Gettysburg’s longstanding commitment to academic excellence and career development, the College’s new communication studies program will ready students for a lifetime of personal and professional success.

Building upon its strong tradition of producing graduates who thrive in communications careers for top companies and organizations around the globe, Gettysburg College is proud to announce that it will add a communication studies major and minor starting in the 2025-26 academic year. Students may declare the major and minor as early as the fall semester.

Student-faculty collaboration empowers undergraduates to engage in meaningful, interdisciplinary research that fosters critical thinking, empathy, and real-world impact.

As the site of one of the most consequential events in our nation’s history, the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, invites students to discover things to do in the community only steps away from our campus.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is a vibrant historic town, rich with history and heritage. We polled several students to learn about some of their favorite things to do around Gettysburg. Which of these are yours?

At a school board meeting in June, Readington Township School District Superintendent Jonathan Hart ’04 (middle) stands with fellow superintendents from the nomination and selection committee after receiving his award for being named Hunterdon County Superintendent of the Year.

English Prof. Sushmita Sircar received a bachelor’s degree in English and French from the University at Buffalo-SUNY and later earned her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University.

Sunderman Conservatory of Music Prof. Avner Dorman teaches music theory and composition. His music compositions have won various awards and have been performed by groups such as the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Israel Philharmonic.

Health Sciences Prof. Megan Benka-Coker ’09 is a faculty member on the International and Global Studies Committee.

Benka-Coker received a dual Bachelor of Arts in health sciences and globalization studies (now International and Global Studies [IGS]) at Gettysburg College. She later earned her Master of Public Health in global health from Emory University and a Ph.D. from Colorado State University.