News

Month: October 2007

  • Advocate for the Homeless Sets Her Sights High

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    “Cathy ten Broeke’s job title clearly spells out the mighty boulder she’s supposed to push uphill in what seems a truly Sisyphean task: she’s the Minneapolis/Hennepin County Coordinator to End Homelessness,” writes Star Tribune reporter Mary Jane Smetanka about a 1991 alumna of Gustavus.

  • Student Exchange Signed Between Gustavus and Chinese College

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    Gustavus Adolphus College and United International College (UIC) in Zhu Hai, China, have entered into a four-year reciprocal student exchange program. Gustavus President Jim Peterson and UIC Executive Vice President Edmond Kwok signed the agreement at Gustavus on Oct. 2.

  • Gustavus Launches Presidential Search Website

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    When the 2007-08 academic year comes to a close, Gustavus Adolphus College President James L. Peterson will retire and the college will inaugurate its 15th president. A new website has been created to inform the Gustavus community about this important and detailed process.

  • Gustavus Celebrates Homecoming

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    With fall comes Homecoming and Family Weekend. Celebrated Oct. 12-14, this year’s weekend of school spirit includes alumni reunions, a traditional homecoming parade, music concerts, workshop sessions for alumni and parents, athletic events, and more.

  • New Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund Established

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    Walter L. Youngquist, a 1942 alumnus of Gustavus Adolphus College, recently made two separate gifts to the college totaling $500,000.

  • Price of Pollution

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    “Gustavus Adolphus College put a physicist, a geoscientist, an engineer and an economist all in the same room and asked them how to save the Earth’s environment. They all said: Put a price on carbon dioxide,” writes H.J. Cummins in a Star Tribune article about the 2007 Nobel Conference.

  • Chemistry Department Receives Major Instrumentation Gift

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    Bill Soderlund and Soderlund Village Drug of St. Peter recently made a major gift of $205,000 to the Department of Chemistry at Gustavus Adolphus College. The gift will enable the college to purchase a Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometer, to be used in instructional laboratories and faculty/student research projects.