Year: 2011

Kent Nerburn, the author of this year’s Reading in Common book, The Wolf at Twilight, will give a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 in Alumni Hall, located on the upper level of the O.J. Johnson Student Union.

Gustavus Adolphus College will again have a presence in the Education Building at the Minnesota State Fair. Make plans to stop and visit between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Aug. 25-Sept. 5.

Joyce Sutphen, Professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College, was named Poet Laureate for the state of Minnesota by Governor Mark Dayton on Tuesday, Aug. 23. In this role, she will serve as the primary spokesperson, supporter, and promoter of poetry in the state.

Gustavus Adolphus College alumnus Travis Dahlke ’00 is back in the news for the work being done through the nonprofit farm organization he started called Hands For Harvest.

Her Vang has been named Assistant Director of Multicultural Programs at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Gustavus Adolphus College recently received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will help enrich the curriculum in the College’s Chemistry Department, specifically for first and second year students.

As a pre-cursor to this year’s Nobel Conference (“The Brain and Being Human”), conference organizers and the Neuroscience Program at Gustavus have invited technology theorist Michael Chorost to speak at the College on Friday, Sept. 9.

The Office of the Provost at Gustavus Adolphus College is pleased to announce the hiring of eight new tenure-track faculty members who will begin their teaching duties at the onset of the 2011-12 academic year.

The Gustavus women’s basketball team placed seventh on the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) NCAA Division III Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for the 2010-11 season with a team GPA of 3.534. Case Western Reserve University won this season’s competition for NCAA Division III with a GPA of 3.609.

Outrageous Fortune, a new play by Gustavus Professor of Theatre & Dance Amy Seham, recently premiered at the 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festival under the direction of Evan Hilsabeck ’10. Inspired by Anderson Theatre’s recent production of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Outrageous Fortune opened Friday, Aug. 5 with five performances during the Festival at the Augsburg Mainstage…