News

Year: 2010

  • Gustavus Student Receives $50,000 EPA Fellowship

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    stacia

    Gustavus Adolphus College junior biology major Ethan Degner has been awarded a $50,000 Environmental Protection Agency Greater Research Opportunities (EPA GRO) Fellowship for Undergraduate Environmental Study. Degner was one of 30 fellowship recipients selected from throughout the nation.

  • Gustavus Moves Up Again in U.S. News Rankings

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    Matt Thomas ’00

    Gustavus Adolphus College is once again ranked among the top 100 liberal arts colleges in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings for 2011. Gustavus moved up from last year’s rankings to 79th on the magazine’s “Best Liberal Arts College’s” list.

  • Gustavus Named a Top 100 College by Forbes

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    Matt Thomas ’00

    Gustavus Adolphus College has been named one of America’s top 100 colleges for 2010 by Forbes.com. In its latest college guide, America’s Best Colleges, Forbes.com lists Gustavus as the 98th best college in the country.

  • Gustavus Launches Ad Campaign

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    stacia

    This week Gustavus will launch a statewide advertising campaign targeted to reach Minnesota high school students and their parents. The ad campaign will include newspaper, magazine, radio, outdoor/billboard, and social media outlets in and around the state’s most populated areas.

  • Gustavus Named a Best College, Nationally and Regionally

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    stacia

    Gustavus Adolphus College is once again rated a top college, in The Princeton Review’s guidebook, The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 Edition. This annual ranking, released Aug. 2, 2010, is based solely on input from college students.

  • Seham Returns to Fringe Festival

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    Matt Thomas ’00

    Playwright Amy Seham, professor of theatre and dance at Gustavus Adolphus College, returns for the seventh time to Minnesota’s Fringe Festival in August with her newest play, FW: RE: Mom Update.

  • Foiled Office Shows Community Spirit, Makes News

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    stacia

    Some students and faculty members at Gustavus Adolphus College conduct serious research during the summer, when classes are not in session, but they also manage to have a little fun as evidenced by the fact that a professor’s office was completely redecorated by student researchers using aluminum foil.

  • Gustavus Student Blogs for The Washington Post

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    Matt Thomas ’00

    Gustavus Adolphus College sophomore Claire Curran recently received an invitation to serve as a guest blogger for The Washington Post’s blog titled “The Faith Divide.”

  • Gustavus Student Interning at Baseball Hall of Fame

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    Matt Thomas ’00

    Gustavus Adolphus College senior Craig Nordquist has always had a passion for baseball as evidenced by the fact that he has visited all 30 current Major League Baseball stadiums. This summer, the communication studies major is living a dream by interning at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.

  • Thousands Visit Perry the Corpse Flower

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    stacia

    More than 5,000 people of all ages came to see Perry the Corpse Flower in bloom at Gustavus Adolphus College July 23-25, 2010. People came from near and far to see Perry’s second bloom in history. This huge rare plant that blooms infrequently is located in the College’s Nobel Hall of Science greenhouse.