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  • Preparing for a Medical Career

    Cambria Aviles — 

    Gabby Odudu (’13) has wanted to work in medicine since she was a little girl, when she underwent numerous major surgeries on her eyes. “I basically...

  • Training to Teach in China

    Stephanie Kim — 

    Si Nae Kim (’14) came to Biola against all financial odds. As an international student from China — where her parents serve as missionaries — Kim...

  • Truth-Telling in Washington D.C.

    David Baxter, Brett McCracken — 

    As Katie Watson (’11) reflects on her Biola experience she remembers a professor who said, “Do you want to be a Christian journalist? Then be the...

  • Finding Family

    Cambria Aviles, Brett McCracken — 

    As he counted down the days to his graduation in May 2015, biochemistry major Marcus Olivares-Perez (’15) marveled at the many ways Biola had...

  • Campaign Priority 2: Provide Facilities That Inspire Learning

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    As Biola’s student body has grown — more than doubling in size over the last two decades alone — so too have the physical needs of the burgeoning...

  • A Transformed Campus

    Jason Newell — 

    Click for full-size map Over the past five years, Biola and its supporters have invested tens of millions of dollars to transform our La Mirada...

  • A New Era for the Sciences

    Why focusing on science, technology and health is a key priority of The Campaign for Biola University

    Brett McCracken — 

    Throughout history, the discoveries and applications of science — electricity, DNA, penicillin, the mapping of the human genome — have changed the...

  • Campaign Priority 3: Influence the World of Ideas

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Biola’s ambition is to become a global center for Christian thought — an institution that cultivates and disseminates influential scholarship,...

  • Giving Voice to the Wisdom of Jesus

    Three years in, Biola’s Center for Christian Thought is seeking to contribute to a renaissance of the evangelical mind

    Evan Rosa — 

    Ideas are powerful. Perhaps they’re the most powerful thing in the world. But ideas also have a weakness: They need a voice. A voice to actualize...

  • Front and Center

    A guide to Biola’s three academic centers

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    As part of the university’s goal to attract and develop outstanding Christian scholars and to have a more pronounced impact in the broader world...

  • Campaign Priority 4: Extend Biola’s Global Reach

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    Never before have more opportunities been available for Biola to realize its vision of being a university of global impact. Technological advances...

  • Biola for the World

    Taking Biola’s biblically centered resources to the ends of the earth

    Brett McCracken — 

    For as long as Biola has existed, it has been an institution with an outward focus, looking for ways to bless people around the world with...

  • How to Help

    Six ways to get involved in The Campaign for Biola University

    Jason Newell — 

    Biola University was built on the prayers, generosity and support of people like you, who saw the vision of a school endeavoring to carry out a...

  • Called to Stewardship

    The biblical principles guiding Biola’s campaign

    Adam Morris — 

    God, Giving and Asking at Biola University. That’s the title of a booklet we’ve been sharing with alumni, parents and friends who are considering...

  • The Shovels in my Office and the Excitement in my Heart

    Rick Bee — 

    Are you as excited as I am? I look through the amazing stories in this issue of Biola Magazine and I am overwhelmed by God’s provision and...

  • Biola Changes Lives

    An investment in Biola can make a lifelong impact — just ask these students, alumni and supporters

    Biola Magazine Staff — 

    “Biola University truly is unique. There is no other school that offers what it offers in the area of philosophy, apologetics, so many other...