Eric Jay Toll

Given the road he had to travel to reach graduation, Amer Jouda has led a life that many of his fellow Grand Canyon University students couldn't imagine.
The student commencement speaker will bring a unique perspective to the Friday afternoon ceremony for students of the colleges of Engineering and Technology, Natural Sciences, and Nursing and Health Care Professions.
“I was given a formal speech format that I was supposed to follow,” said Jouda, whose ceremony is one of three over two days i...

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It was a well-trekked sandy trail leading us into the thick brush. A gentle breeze rustled the shrubs and straggling mesquite and ironwood trees. In an instant on the short track, we seemed to leave the Sonoran Desert behind and move into a stunted but lush preserve.
Two of us were camping for a long weekend at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, along the Arizona-Sonora, Mexico border at Lukeville, ...

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Grand Canyon University senior Jordan Ward, who is on course to graduate in 2026 with a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, is more than just a cyber major. He's also an intern with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Phoenix.
“Six interviews, two drug tests and a polygraph examination. They spend time, money and resources recruiting you (as an intern). I first applied my freshman year, and it’s taken this long to go through the background process,” said the ...

Against the black night, the darker-than-night silhouettes of Monument Valley buttes graced the horizon. Overhead, stars were scattered across the sky—a prank by Coyote, according to Navajo legend—and the stripe of Milky Way stars arced brilliantly across the sky from the southwest to the northeast horizon.
It was a cold night in northeastern Arizona on the Colorado Plateau, and our group of photographers huddled deeper in our jackets with cameras ready. I kept checking the time on my phone. ...

If the dream of sending a manned mission to Mars comes to fruition, and rockets and astronauts arrive in orbit around the Red Planet, they will need fuel to transport them in the lander to the surface. Right now, the only options are inefficient, requiring more fuel and less payload.
If Grand Canyon University mechanical engineering professor Li Tan and his student scholars succeed, their research, under the umbrella of the university's Canyon Emerging Scholars undergraduate research program,...

My bucket list trip to experience winter in Québec was made even more memorable by the excursion to Saguenay.

A winter visit to Québec has long been on my bucket list. It seems pretty offbeat to leave Arizona in February and land not far from the Arctic Circle. The trip to Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean was an unexpected detour from Carnaval in Québec Citie. Bundling up meant I was never cold despite an air temperature that never cleared 12F (-11C). The Québecoise are exceptionally welcoming hosts. ...

A 1774 William Cooper poem that goes, “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform,” has been paraphrased over time to "The Lord works in mysterious ways."
It's something Dawn Seekings in New York state knows well. She never expected to find the mysterious message on her laptop screen one night early in 2025. Recently widowed, she was browsing aimlessly until her despair called for a break.
“I said a prayer, ‘God, listen, you’ve got to give me something to do,’” Seekings said. “I wa...

The four levels of clinical rotations that nursing students move through on their way to earning their bachelor's degree are integral to any nursing student's journey, including at Grand Canyon University.
Tristan Palmer, director of clinical services for the university's College of Nursing and Health Care Professions, says these hands-on experiences, alongside a licensed professional, are vital building blocks to creating well-rounded nurses. Students will go from level 1 students in their f...

While working as a youth pastor for a small church in Chandler, Arizona, Vance Collins never imagined how his journey would lead him to shepherd beginning engineering students at Grand Canyon University.
Now, his commitment to help young men and women begin their professional journeys has resulted in him being named GCU's third Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network Engineering Unleashed Fellow.
“I call it the ‘Boxy’ project,” Collins, a full-time instructor in GCU’s College of Engineering ...

Grand Canyon University alumna Veronika Solovei loved languages, finding poetry in it as she delved into French and English as a student at Kyiv National Linguistic University in her home country of Ukraine.
But in her new life in the United States, where she found herself alone after a harrowing journey in which she left her family behind to escape the Russo-Ukrainian war, language became something altogether different.
More than just conversational and colloquial English, she had to learn m...

“It’s like the phone rang and you answered it,” Becky de Tranaltes said when describing the nursing profession and the passion she has for it.
De Tranaltes, part of the nursing faculty for the prelicensure bachelor of science in nursing program at Grand Canyon University, said that it’s not easy to teach someone to look at nursing as something that comes from deeper inside a person, she said.
“It’s not like dad saying, ‘take over the family business,’ or something like that. Students are draw...

The answer to the unasked question is that commercial real estate development is not the right name. Lynn McKee, director of the Masters of Science in Commercial Real Estate program at Georgia State University, makes that observation.
“Commercial real estate is mislabeled,” he said. “It always has been because when people hear (CRE), they think of office buildings and shopping centers; it really should be called ‘income-producing real estate.’”
McKee says that virtually all real estate develo...

It seemed like a small thing – calming a patient.
But Kiyavanna Robinson, an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing student at the Grand Canyon University ABSN site in St. Louis, discovered that it's those little things that mean a lot.
She was assigned to assist a middle-aged patient who had a lumbar puncture scheduled that day. Robinson saw how nervous that patient was and went beyond the usual preprocedure assessment.
“I wanted to know what happened to her and why she was in for the pr...