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By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 6/25/2022 - 10 minute read
Cindy Steinbeck, MA ’02 and Steve Schedler ’84 both walked through seasons of great personal hardship. Now, as spouses and partners in the Voice in the Vineyard Ministry, they are supporting ministers with teaching, renewal retreats, and the healing power of relationship.
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By Dr. Michael Thomas Posted on 6/25/2022 - 2 minute read
Dr. Michael Thomas greets the readers of the Summer 2022 issue of the CUI Magazine. Dr. Thomas highlights inspirational student and alumni stories that illustrate how they live out the university’s mission in their daily lives.
By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 6/25/2022 - 6 minute read
Christopher Aceves’s ’22 innovative original costumes for a recent Concordia theatre presentation earned him the nation’s highest collegiate costuming award—a first for any Concordia student.
By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 6/25/2022 - 5 minute read
Michaela VanderKlugt ’22, “a once-in-a-very-blue-moon type of player,” became the first Concordia player to score 2,000 points and collect 1,000 rebounds in the program’s NCAA DII era. She was named the D2CCA West Region Player of the Year and the PacWest Conference Player of the Year. This fall, she begins her professional basketball career in Europe.
Parker Hicks ’22 earned a National Science Foundation research opportunity over the summer and helped create a computer model that turns low-resolution genome data into high-resolution data. The work was published in industry-leading journal, Bioinformatics, an unusual accomplishment for an undergraduate student.
Chris Vecera ‘11, MA ‘14, and his wife Beth ‘13 followed their dream to start their own coffee roasting company and established Naysayer Coffee, a coffee roastery and shop, in Napa in 2019.
By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 6/25/2022 - 3 minute read
Joshua McArthur, MA ‘22, wanted to refocus his career as the Director of Culture at High Brew Coffee and chose to attend Concordia’s Townsend Institute to pursue his master's in organizational leadership and culture because of the program’s faith element.