News

Year: 2007

  • Youth Benefit from Gustavus NYSP Camp

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    More than 150 area youth are participating in a unique three-week academic and athletic enrichment program at Gustavus called the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP). In its fourth year, the Gustavus NYSP program brings children ages 10-16, from low-income families, to day camp from July 9 through July 28.

  • Chinese Students Visit Gustavus

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    Chinese students are visiting Gustavus and five other Minnesota private colleges this month to learn about college liberal arts education in the United States. Twenty five students from the United International College (UIC), a new liberal arts college located in Zhuhai, China, are in Minnesota for a month-long study of American culture and higher education,…

  • Gustavus Alum Eric Butorac Featured in Star Tribune

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    Star Tribune reporter Rachel Blount recently featured Gustavus Adolphus College graduate Eric Butorac and his rise through the professional tennis ranks. Butorac and his doubles partner, Jamie Murray, advanced to the third round at Wimbledon before falling in four sets to the ninth seeded team of Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic.

  • New Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs Begins

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    The Gustavus Adolphus College community welcomes Mary E. Morton to campus as its new Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. Morton, who holds a doctorate in biochemistry from Dartmouth Medical School and has extensive experience in academia, assumed this leadership position July 2. In this role as chief academic officer, she oversees academic programs…

  • Gustavus Offers High School Speech Camp

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    While their friends rush off to soccer, football or ballet camp, a special crop of high school students from all over the Midwest will gather at Gustavus Adolphus College for the college’s inaugural Summer Speech Institute.

  • Claude Brew Receives Distinguished Teaching Award

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    Claude Brew, Gustavus Adolphus College Professor of English, received the 2007 Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching during the College’s commencement exercises on Sunday, May 27.

  • Women’s Athletic Program Wins MIAC All-Sports Title

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    Gustavus Adolphus College has captured the 2006-07 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Women’s All-Sports Award. For the Gustie women, it is their fifth All-Sports Award in the last seven seasons.

  • Graduate Part of Long Legacy at Gustavus

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    You won’t find Michael Lynch going around and bragging to all his Gustie buddies about how, when he walks across the stage Sunday to pick up his diploma, he’ll probably have the most interesting historical tie to the college — he’s just not that kind of guy.

  • Gustavus Confers Honorary Degree on Bethany Hartung

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    If everything had gone the way it was supposed to go, Bethany Hartung would have awakened this morning ready to graduate with the other 600 Gustavus Adolphus College seniors at 2 p.m.

  • Gustavus Honors Distinguished Alumni

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    Gustavus Adolphus College presented Margaret Anderson Kelliher ’90 and Paul Peterson ’94 with Distinguished Alumni Citations at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 26 at the College’s Alumni Banquet as part of the 2007 Reunion Weekend.