News

Year: 2007

  • 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.

  • Fall Poetry Classic Set for Mid-October

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    Gustavus Adolphus College will host a Fall Poetry Classic on Wednesday, Oct. 17 to showcase a new anthology of Minnesota women poets, To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present.

  • 43rd Nobel Conference Explores the Energy Debate

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    Heating Up: the Energy Debate, the 43rd Nobel Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College, Oct. 2 and 3, 2007, will consider global reliance on nonrenewable energy sources and explore a range of cutting-edge energy alternatives.

  • Gustavus Retains A3 Rating by Moody’s Investors Service

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    Moody’s Investors Service recently affirmed the A3 long-term rating on Gustavus Adolphus College’s Revenue Bonds issued through the Minnesota Higher Education Facilities Authority.

  • Alumnus Named Chair of Department of Medicine at UCSF

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    Gustavus Adolphus College alumnus and former trustee Talmadge E. King, Jr., an internationally respected expert in lung disorders, has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.

  • Gustavus Receives Funding From NSF

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    Gustavus Adolphus College, 15 other higher education institutions in Minnesota, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the Minnesota High Tech Association have been awarded a five-year, $2.45 million grant to broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in baccalaureate education.

  • <i>New York Times</i> Editorial Board Member to Speak

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    Gustavus Adolphus College will welcome New York Times editorial board member Verlyn Klinkenborg to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Klinkenborg will deliver a lecture titled, “The De-Democratization of the American Landscape,” at 7 p.m. in room 103 of F.W. Olin Hall.

  • Johnson and Esbjornson will Release Book on October 13

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    Dennis Johnson and Robert Esbjornson, both longstanding members of the Gustavus Adolphus College community, have collaborated to produce a book titled, Esbj! The Heart and Mind of a Professor. The book will be released on Oct. 13 during homecoming festivities at Gustavus where both contributors will be present for a book signing.

  • Reading in Common Author Tracy Kidder will Visit Campus

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    Gustavus Adolphus College will welcome author Tracy Kidder to campus on Thursday, Sept. 27. Kidder, the author of this year’s Reading in Common book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, will speak at 7 p.m. in Christ Chapel.