Christian Higher Education: Partnering the Chapel and Laboratory

Collins is an accomplished research scientist, physician, director of the Human Genome Project, and subsequently director of the National Institutes of Health for three consecutive United States presidents. Childhood requests for Christmas or birthday gifts were the usual fare, but included a chemistry set, a telescope, model rockets, and a snake cage crafted by my father. Students selecting a university home choose a life-altering path, and their decision is too often influenced by institutional characteristics providing no durable impact upon their personal or spiritual development. The speech was delivered in the First Parish Meetinghouse to an audience of over 200, which included a United States Supreme Court justice and the Massachusetts governor.